Hi friends. I'm Elena Aguilar and I'm sharing a live coaching demonstration that centers one of the most powerful and personal coaching moves we can make.

Exploring and transforming a limiting belief. You'll hear me guide a client through the exploring beliefs framework, which is a process

that we can use to help someone identify a disempowering belief, reflect on how it's impacting

them, and then begin the work of rewriting that story.

Okay, here's what you need to know about this roleplay demonstration.

I am meeting again with Mike, who is playing a ninth grade English teacher.

Now, this is our first year working together, and it's also the first year that coaching has been at this site.

Mike has been teaching for 10 years, and while he originally didn't think he needed

coaching, he's starting to appreciate our time together, and our relationship is solid.

So this is our fourth coaching session together. And Mike has received the diagnostic data

from his classes and after our first all-staff meeting, where our new principal shared their

big goal for the school year. Okay, let's jump into this conversation. Good to see you, Mike.

You too. I am looking forward to this conversation and to digging into the diagnostic data.

Let's just start really broadly. What did that bring up for you? The diagnostic data? Yeah. Well, a lot of it's like we've been

talking about, I'm trying to stay focused on what's in front of me and what I can control

in my room. That is helping. And this is one of those things where again, so the diagnostic data

shows that a third of my kids are a year or more behind. And the new admin's goal is that 100% of freshmen will be on or above grade level at

the end of the year, which congratulations on that, knowing how to say goals, but whatever.

And I just, I look at how far behind so many of our kids are. And it's just, it is a defeating moment.

I don't want to dwell on it, but that's what I'm feeling.

So actually, you told me what you think,

but I'm curious if I can just challenge you a little bit.

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