Creating an environment that allows ideas, options and opportunities to emerge.

1. The coach enables expansion of thoughts and actions.
2. The client’s awareness is expanded.
3. The coach helps client transcend barriers.
4. The client is willing to leave his/her comfort zone.
5. The client has more options.

1. Trust, openness, curiosity, courage, and recognition of potential.
2. The coach and the client communicate through exploration and discovery.
3. Identify “internal” possibilities (e.g., personal greatness, higher purpose) and “external” possibilities (e.g., resources, memes).
4. Possibilities are generated by the coach, the client or a collaboration of the two.

• “beginner’s mind” vs. imposing expertise
• creative vs. prescriptive
• expansion vs. resolution

The coach:
1. Uses appropriate tools and techniques to create the environment for expansion.
2. Draws on various scenarios, circumstances and cultures to expand the client’s options.
3. Poses questions to enhance the process of discovery.
4. Minimizes effects of conditioned thinking.
5. Brainstorms with the client.
6. Helps the client see his/her possibilities from a larger perspective.
7. Is provocative when necessary to encourage the client’s expansion.
8. Stays open to possibility, even when the client resists.
9. Is willing to let the unknown present itself.
10. Encourages the client to explore the most ambitious options.

The coach:
1. Is attached to a particular framework or process.
2. Is seeking a particular outcome or answer.
3. Rushes to find a solution.
4. Accepts the client’s perceived limitations.
5. Asks leading questions or too many questions.
6. Allows the client’s “story” to constrain the exploration of possibility.