Shifting from Rescuer to Coach
Rescuer to Coach
Facilitating the Shift
INTERNAL:
- How do I take responsibility for my self care?
- What support do I need?
EXTERNAL:
- How are you seeing the other? As a problem to fix or as capable and resourceful?
- What questions will help clarify an outcome, current reality, or generate possible “baby steps?”
- Shift from fixing to letting go
- Move from telling to asking
Go to Page 18 in your Workbook:
- Identify a situation you are facing in which you could use support from someone as a Coach. This could be clarifying an outcome or thinking through how you can respond to a challenge. Who can you enlist to serve in the Coach role for you?
- Think of either a current situation or one from the recent past in which you have been drawn into the Rescuer role. As a Coach, what questions could you ask that would help them clarify their outcome or choices?
