How Coaching Helps Transform Beliefs

All people, as a result of their life background, their education, where they were raised, by whom… develop what is known in the field of psychology and personal development as beliefs

These are extremely important because, although they are unconscious, they mark behavior and the way of facing life in a very significant way. In a coaching process, it is common to work with them because knowing them and knowing how to transform them is key to helping or hindering the coachee in achieving his or her goal.

Knowing the beliefs

Beliefs are ideas that are totally true for those who believe them. It does not mean that they are true or false, they are simply true for the person who supports them.

They tend to be deeply rooted in the person’s unconscious and, therefore, they are usually quite resistant to transforming them, since they are usually beyond one’s will or control.

These beliefs are usually classified into two types:

Observing this classification, what is usually worked on in coaching processes is, on the one hand, making the client aware of their limiting beliefs that are preventing them from moving forward, and on the other, transforming them into empowering beliefs that will help them in their development process.

How coaching works on limiting beliefs

There are various techniques and dynamics that help the coach guide his client in the transformation of limiting beliefs into empowering ones, one of the fastest and most effective being the one developed by the coach and reference in NLP, Robert Dilts.

According to the belief change model that Dilts developed, The key to changing a limiting belief is, first, to find its positive intention and then integrate this intention into the new empowering belief that will be created.

The steps of this model would be:

Afterwards, the process involves developing a series of questions that lead the client to reflect and strengthen the new belief: How does it improve your life? How does your life get worse? (Repeat these questions with the limiting belief) What prevents you from integrating the new belief? What could you do to help you integrate and believe the new belief?:

By analyzing the different limiting beliefs and carrying out their transformation, the coach’s path is paved to accompany the coachee to carry out an effective action plan to achieve their goal.

Belief work at D’Arte Human Business School

In our school, all coaching training addresses beliefs and tools for their transformation since they always appear in every coaching process.

What makes the difference in To give you is that students not only learn these dynamics to apply them with their future clients, but they also carry out practices with their own limiting beliefs so that, while they train, they also carry out powerful internal work that allows them to overcome their own beliefs that may limit their work as professional coaches.