Mindfulness is a technique to maintain moment-by-moment awareness of our thoughts, feelings, bodily sensations, and surrounding environment, through a gentle and nurturing lens. The Coachee pays attention to his/her thoughts and feeling without judging them. The thoughts are tuned into sensing in the present moment rather than rehashing the past or imagining the future.

There are many Mindfulness Techniques. One of our favorite ones is the box technique. Tell your coachee to: "breathe in deeply by the nose for 4 seconds, hold it for 4 seconds, breathe out by the mouth for 4 seconds, hold it." [Repeat].

​People who use their strengths every day are:

• 3 times more likely to report having an excellent quality of life,
• 6 times more likely to be engaged at work,
• 8% more productive,
• 15% less likely to quit their jobs.

Ask your Coachee to identify his/her key strengths:

What does your Coachee gets complimented on? What do his/her friends value? What do colleagues or boss value? What does your Coachee like about himself/herself? When does he/she feel in the flow?

Anchoring is a powerful Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP) technique to anchor a feeling in the nervous system. Swish is a technique to reprogram the brain associating a trigger action with pleasure.

Try to find any potential disgust of your coachee with the unwanted behavior (Eating disorder: how he/she feels after eating? For smokers, impact on his/her children? image of dark lungs?). To help cigarette addicts, Tony Robbins famously locking them up in a room and forcing them to smoke packets and packets, until disgust, reprogramming their brains from pleasure to disgust.