Negative Thought Record

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Domain
Life Coaching
Type
Worksheet
Phase
Discovery Reflection
Details
15 min Opener As-needed
Topics
Mindset Emotions

Coaching tools for personal clarity and intentional living.

When to Use This Tool
A client gets hijacked by automatic thoughts they haven't examined closely
Someone slowing down a reactive moment to track what they thought, felt, and did
Examining whether a judgment they made about a situation is actually accurate or just familiar
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When that reaction happened — what was the thought underneath it, and how much d...

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For the Coaching Practitioner

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Coaching Scenarios Plus
1 Leader who cuts people off in meetings and can't explain why
Context

Your client has received feedback that they interrupt or talk over colleagues in meetings, especially in disagreement. They don't experience themselves as doing this - they feel they're just trying to contribute. The behavior is creating friction and threatening a key relationship, but the client has no internal record of the thought chain that precedes it.

How to Introduce

Introduce after they've described a specific recent incident, not in the abstract. 'Let's slow that meeting down. Walk m...

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Pairs Well With

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Wheel of Emotions

Client describes feeling 'bad' or 'off' but cannot name the emotion with any specificity

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