Mind Map Exercise

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Domain
Life Coaching
Type
Worksheet
Phase
Discovery Goal Setting
Details
30 min Mid session As-needed
Topics
Creativity Identity

Coaching tools for personal clarity and intentional living.

When to Use This Tool
A client who's overwhelmed by complexity and needs a visual way to see the whole picture
Someone exploring a decision with many interconnected factors who keeps getting stuck in linear thinking
A professional in a brainstorming phase who wants to generate connections before narrowing
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What's the topic you want to map — and is it something you want to explore broad...

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For the Coaching Practitioner

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Coaching Scenarios Plus
1 A client who produces a linear list in mind-map format rather than a branching structure
Context

A project manager who is highly organized and sequential in her thinking. When given the mind map exercise, she produces a central node with five branches, each branch with one item - effectively a formatted list with spokes. The structure looks like a mind map but doesn't function like one: there are no connections between branches, no sub-branches, and no emergent insights from the spatial relationships.

How to Introduce

Name the structure before she commits to it. 'A mind map works differently from a list - the value comes from branching ...

2 A leader who uses mind mapping to generate ideas but never reaches the Connections or Insights section 🔒
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