Who for: Use with anyone for every type of coaching.
Why are they not doing these things more? And how they could do more of them? To turn this "Aha!" into a permanent life transformation, clients will need to change how they spend their leisure time-including more of these "heart sing" activities. But what is not unique is that the vast majority of people's "heart sing" ideas are usually both easy to do and free! This is powerful for many people, as they realise that perhaps that expensive status symbol or experience is just not as fulfilling as watching the sun set or relaxing with friends. What makes our heart sing is, of course, unique to us. How to make this a transformational coaching exercise: Ultimately this exercise connects our clients with what makes them truly happy-and see how easy it can be to create that in our lives.
This coaching exercise helps people identify experiences where they are in flow or very present with themselves. And that's because it helps people identify specific activities that create true joy and happiness-for them.
"What Makes My Heart Sing?" is one of my absolute favourite-and possibly most used-transformational coaching exercises. Find this tool in the Self-Discovery Toolkit.If you're a Career or Executive Coach you may also like the Identify Your Career Values Coaching Exercise & Workbook.See How to Identify Values-A Coaching Exercise in 5 Steps! (Values Workbook Overview).This Values Coaching Exercise makes great homework-and can also be used in a workshop or a group coaching engagement.When goal-setting, changing habits, making a big decision-or for anyone who wants to live a more authentic, meaningful or fulfilling life.It's great to use this Coaching Exercise reasonably early in a coaching engagement, as our values are extremely useful when making any kind of life transformation.Who for: Use with anyone for any type of coaching. Then, once they've prioritised their values and people become aware their focus has been in the wrong place, they have the opportunity to make change-and bring their actions into alignment with their values. We all know people who work long hours, rigidly focusing on one value like mastery or financial security, without realising that love and family is their real top priority. The most transformative aspect of this workbook is the prioritisation of values. When we do or see things that go against our values we feel sad, bad or get mad! And when we live life in a way that aligns with our values (congruently) we feel good-authentic, fulfilled and more content. Our values influence what we do, how we think and how we feel about the world around us. How many of our clients feel unhappy or unfulfilled simply because they're not consciously living their values? And here are My Top 5 Transformational Coaching Exercises So, please share your favourite transformational coaching exercises in the comments below. We'd also love to hear from you which coaching exercises, tools and activities you find most powerful in your coaching practice. New to coaching exercises? Read our Complete Guide to Life Coaching Tools here > So in this article are 5 coaching exercises that have big transformational opportunities-tools that have the power to change our minds: not just how we think-but how we live our lives. And coaching exercises can be a great tool to begin that life-changing process. But to turn an "Aha!" into a permanent life transformation takes effort and work-and that's often where our clients need the most help.
Of course any coaching exercise can be transformational. There are so many coaching tools out there-but which are transformational coaching exercises? And what do we mean by transformational anyway? Because there's a big difference between having an "Aha!" and actually turning that into a life change.