Ask These Evocative Questions And Your Clients Will Dominate

Here Are 10 Evocative Questions You Can Ask Your Clients That Will Help Them Generate The Answers They Seek, And Move Toward Their Goals And Dreams

What is Evocative Coaching?

Evocative coaching is a form of heart-centered life coaching that supports your client in understanding that all of the answers they seek to move their life forward are within themselves.

The life coach’s role then, is to assist the client in connecting with and listening to their own inner wisdom as the basis of taking action toward their goals and dreams.

As a coach, you assist your clients in becoming the architects of their own life.

Evocative coaching is based on the idea that within each one of us, we have all of the answers that we seek.

This philosophy of encouraging clients to look within for the answers they seek is actually the basis of evocative coaching, a form of coaching that is highly effective for helping clients create the results they desire in life.

So rather than telling your clients what to do, evocative coaching is designed to help them look within and bring forth the answers that will move them toward a life they truly love living.

10 Powerful Evocative Coaching Questions

Here are 10 evocative coaching questions you can ask your coaching clients to help them connect with their inner guidance system, so that they can move themselves forward in life.

1. Where are you experiencing longing in your life?

Your client may not actually know the answer to this question right away. But as you chat, they may begin saying things like, “It would be great if…” or “I’d love it if…” and a longing of theirs shows through that you can help them elaborate on.

Make your client aware that this feeling of longing is actually the life force within them seeking to expand and express itself more fully.

2. Where are you experiencing “divine discontent?”

Discontent shows up through statements like, “Oh, I’m so tired of struggling with money,” or “I’m so tired of getting into bed alone each night.”

The reason I call this divine discontent is because these sentiments are really just life speaking to us, saying, “You were meant for more. Don’t settle for a life that’s not what you really want!”

3. What activities do you do where you feel like you just go “into the zone,” and you totally lose track of time?

Ask your client to recall when they have felt most alive. What were they doing? Pinpointing these activities is a great way to shine a light on the dreams that are seeking to emerge for them.

4. What types of things do other people compliment you for?

Your client may initially answer by saying “Hmmmm I don’t know,” because it can feel humbling or awkward to look at themselves in a celebratory way.

So encourage your client to start paying attention to the praise and positive feedback they get from people.

What’s the theme of it?

What might it say about what they’re good at?

Or what they are truly called to do?

5. What would you do if you had unlimited resources?

Like question #4, many clients say that they’ve never really allowed themselves to ask this question.

So if they start to protest or blank, just encourage them to entertain the question.

It can be very telling about what someone is truly called to when they stop limiting possibilities on account of time and money.

6. What would you try now if you knew you could not fail?

This is a really powerful example of what I call a “dream door opener.” Encourage your client to actually answer the question by stating,

“If I knew that I could not fail I would ___________.”

They may surprise themselves with the ideas that spring forth!

7. Who is someone that you know, or that you’ve heard of or read about, that you really admire?

There’s tons of amazing personal development blogs out there. Ask your client the questions and let them answer it, and then say,

“What are the specific traits? What are the three things you admire about them?”

When they list off the traits of the person they admire, you can say to your client,

“Do you know something? You can’t admire traits in someone else that you don’t have inside of you, because otherwise you wouldn’t have noticed them! So there’s some part of you that is already like this and as you admire these traits, feel better about yourself, because you have them in you too.”

8. If you knew that this was your last year on the planet, what would you start doing you haven’t been doing? What would you stop doing that you are currently doing?

This is an incredibly powerful question that will immediately help your client discern between what’s really important to them and what really matters, and what’s more peripheral.

9. If you did know the answer, what would it be?

This is a great question for getting a client who feels stuck unstuck. If a client says, “I don’t know,” to any question you ask, you can gently say,

“Okay, but if you did know the answer, what would it be?”

This question is helpful because deep down, we all do know the answers to these questions.

When we allow our minds to move into confusion, we block ourselves knowing what we really know inside of us.

10. What am I not asking you that you really want me to ask?

Another way to phrase this question to your client is,

“What am I not asking you that deep down, you know that if I did ask you, it could really help you?”

By asking this question, you invite your client to share how they would most love to be guided and supported by you.

So what happens after that?

You’ll learn how to understand and influence people.

As you have conversations with your clients, discover what they want, and respond with evocative questions and comments that guide them toward the changes they long to make, you’ll learn both how to get to the core of what people truly desire, and how to gently influence them to make lasting changes in their lives.

Every time your client has a breakthrough or an a-ha moment, and they share their thoughts and experiences with you, it gives you an opportunity to learn more about how to help people create the life of their dreams, and you’ll have more knowledge with which to improve the lives of both your future clients and yourself.

It’s about helping your clients, but it also helps you

What you learn in the process of coaching your clients helps you grow as a person, and enables you, through your own growth, to have a bigger, more positive impact on every person who comes into contact with you.

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