{"id":9412,"date":"2021-12-16T11:03:44","date_gmt":"2021-12-16T11:03:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.coachcert.com\/coachingblog\/?p=9412"},"modified":"2022-08-17T18:48:38","modified_gmt":"2022-08-17T18:48:38","slug":"moving-past-limiting-perceptions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.coachcert.com\/coachingblog\/moving-past-limiting-perceptions\/","title":{"rendered":"Moving Past Limiting Perceptions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the previous blog an old tale highlighted how perceptions can limit and how changes in circumstances and completely change perceptions.\u00a0 If a perception is limiting a client, a coach partners with them to create awareness, reflect, and make choices.\u00a0 The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.coachcert.com\/resources\/faqs\/commonly-asked-questions-with-answers.html\">questions<\/a> coaches ask open the exploration of perceptions and how those perceptions influence choices. <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-9413 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/www.coachcert.com\/coachingblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Moving-Past-Limiting-Perceptions.jpg\" alt=\"Moving Past Limiting Perceptions\" width=\"282\" height=\"188\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.coachcert.com\/coachingblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Moving-Past-Limiting-Perceptions.jpg 1920w, https:\/\/www.coachcert.com\/coachingblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Moving-Past-Limiting-Perceptions-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.coachcert.com\/coachingblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Moving-Past-Limiting-Perceptions-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.coachcert.com\/coachingblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Moving-Past-Limiting-Perceptions-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.coachcert.com\/coachingblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Moving-Past-Limiting-Perceptions-1536x1023.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.coachcert.com\/coachingblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Moving-Past-Limiting-Perceptions-90x60.jpg 90w, https:\/\/www.coachcert.com\/coachingblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Moving-Past-Limiting-Perceptions-480x320.jpg 480w, https:\/\/www.coachcert.com\/coachingblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Moving-Past-Limiting-Perceptions-800x530.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.coachcert.com\/coachingblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Moving-Past-Limiting-Perceptions-420x280.jpg 420w, https:\/\/www.coachcert.com\/coachingblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Moving-Past-Limiting-Perceptions-520x345.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 282px) 100vw, 282px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A coach will ask a client about their perceptions.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>How did you come to this perception?<\/li>\n<li>How is this <a href=\"https:\/\/www.verywellmind.com\/perception-and-the-perceptual-process-2795839\">perception<\/a> serving you?<\/li>\n<li>How might this perception get in the way?<\/li>\n<li>How long do you want to hold onto this perception?<\/li>\n<li>What is a different way of looking at it?<\/li>\n<li>Given that other people have different perceptions, what do you want to consider?<\/li>\n<li>What is a different possibility for you?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>A coach will ask about limitations or barriers:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>What is stopping you from going where you want to go?<\/li>\n<li>What else might be in the way?<\/li>\n<li>What are different possible perceptions?<\/li>\n<li>Where do you want to go?<\/li>\n<li>How will you move forward?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Coaching includes challenging thinking, situations, and perceptions. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.coachcert.com\/training.html\">Coaching<\/a> is an opportunity to explore and expand thinking, create change in circumstances, and reframe perceptions.<\/p>\n<p>What if a change in circumstances leads to a change in perceptions? A coach explores this with a client, What does that change in perception tell you? What if a perceived barrier is removed only to have the outcome of the removal become a barrier? A coach will share the observation and ask, What does that mean to you? Other possible questions include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>What does that tell you?<\/li>\n<li>What do you learn about yourself from that awareness?<\/li>\n<li>How do you want to move forward with that?<\/li>\n<li>What do you want to do with it?<\/li>\n<li>What do you want to do about that?<\/li>\n<li>How will you use your insights?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the previous blog an old tale highlighted how perceptions can limit and how changes in circumstances and completely change perceptions.\u00a0 If a perception is &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9413,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[131,470,471,16,40],"tags":[174,1684,45,50,1683,1678,1220,1183],"class_list":["post-9412","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-coaching-program","category-coaching-resources","category-coaching-skills","category-coaching-stories","category-tools-and-techniques","tag-awareness","tag-circumstances","tag-coaches","tag-coaching","tag-moving-past-limiting-perceptions","tag-perceptions","tag-questions","tag-reframe","latest_post"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.coachcert.com\/coachingblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9412","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.coachcert.com\/coachingblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.coachcert.com\/coachingblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.coachcert.com\/coachingblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.coachcert.com\/coachingblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9412"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.coachcert.com\/coachingblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9412\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9414,"href":"https:\/\/www.coachcert.com\/coachingblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9412\/revisions\/9414"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.coachcert.com\/coachingblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9413"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.coachcert.com\/coachingblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.coachcert.com\/coachingblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.coachcert.com\/coachingblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}