Self-Discovery Worksheet

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Domain
Life Coaching
Type
Worksheet
Phase
Discovery
Details
15 min Mid session
Topics
Identity Mindset

Coaching tools for personal clarity and intentional living.

When to Use This Tool
A client wants to understand what brings out their best and what shuts them down
Mapping personal patterns across comfort, stress, and peak performance
Early coaching intake to establish a baseline self-portrait
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Tell me about a moment when you felt completely like yourself — what was present...

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For the Coaching Practitioner

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1 Naming Conditions That Activate Best Work
Context

A client who is a director of operations at a logistics company has been working with his coach for four sessions and describes his coaching goal as 'getting more consistent results.' He performs well in some contexts and poorly in others but has not examined what distinguishes them. When the coach asks what brings out his best, he gives abstract answers: 'when I have clear direction,' 'when the stakes are real.' The four sentence stems in this worksheet press him into specificity about the authentic self, comfortable and stressed states, and peak performance conditions - moving the conversation from general patterns to named mechanisms.

How to Introduce

Frame the worksheet as a self-portrait in four frames: 'These four prompts are asking you to describe yourself from diff...

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