Coaching Model Assessment Name: Sandeep Singh Arora Date: 03/07/2012 Student ID: N/A Email: sandeepsingharora@gmail.

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The CHAKRA Coaching Model

My coaching model is based on my belief of creating balance and harmony in life. The pace and pressures of life can create imbalances in the form of emotional block and doubts. Chakra means wheel in Sanskrit and therefore stands for the balance we should achieve in life. The model has been inspired by my interest in the CHAKRAS, which in ancient Hindu scriptures is the study of energy centres in the body. The model is also based on my experience and insights of working with executive clients. The CHAKRA coaching model has the following flow: CENTERING Are we completely present? What is our intention for this session? Most executives that arrive for coaching sessions are still present in their meetings. Their mind is racing and searching for solutions to all the business issues. CENTERING is about taking a few minutes to bring some focus and get the client to be completely present. This can be done by asking them to close their eyes and focus on their breathing. To think about their intention for the class. The focus brings clarity and allows for new and creative thinking. HARMONY Have we managed to create a trusting space? It is critical to connect deeply with the client. Create a trusting space where the client has complete confidence that everything that is shared will be confidential and is open to the coaching process. This goes beyond clarifying the process that will be followed during coaching. It is building the belief that they (client) have to drive and own the agenda and that your only motivation is their progress and success. It must include acknowledgment and connecting at a personal level. AWARENESS of Reality What is the issue that the client wants to discuss? What is happening now in the clients mind? What are they thinking about and need to resolve?

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Getting the Client to share their current reality allows them to step back and think about the same. It is therefore important to give the client the time and space to share their current thinking. KEEN-NESS to Discover Conversation that leads to new Insights for the Client. What has led them to the belief that this issue is holding them back? What is causing them to think in this manner? The questions in this phase must encourage the client to create New thinking. Listening and responding with intuition leads to powerful questions that allow the client to access their unconscious thinking. Visualization is a great tool in this phase and allows the client to access their unconscious mind to create new connections and new thinking. RELEASE Emotional Blocks Using the Clients New Thinking to Reframe the negative and limiting perspective in the clients mind. Getting them to latch on to a Growth perspective i.e. opportunity to learn from mistake, journey is as important as the destination. Appreciative Enquiry is also a powerful tool that values the good/ success of each person and uses the same to envision a positive future without the limiting beliefs. ACTION Planning Client to come up with action plan that will move them forward and create momentum and positive energy. It is important to encourage and support the client at this stage. Maintenance of the action plan / new behavior through maintaining a journal, followup by a partner, feedback from peers in an executive coaching environment. The CHAKRA model is about creating a positive cycle of energy for the client. It is therefore important that the new thinking and actions are sustainable. To do this it is important to ANCHOR the new thinking by aligning it to the clients beliefs, motivating the client to take on meditation and things that inspire them to create more balance in their lives. The Chakra Model and its philosophy of balance in the energy centres encourages the coach to be authentic and to be fully present. To enjoy the flow and energy that exists between two people without judgment, fear of results and trying to find the answers.

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The model has been very useful in my coaching assignments and I look forward to learn and further develop the model as I build my executive coaching practice.

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