Stamina Lab Blog
Insights on solution-focused coaching, communication, and the science behind lasting patient and client outcomes.
Every Solution-Focused Conversation Has the Same Three Parts
Five minutes or fifty, every Solution-Focused conversation has the same three parts. Like driving a car: you start it, you drive it, you park it.
What Would Make This Conversation Worthwhile?
Every coaching conversation needs a destination before it can move. Dr. Deborah Teplow on the one question to ask before anything else.
Your Clients Are Motivated. So What Builds Follow-Through?
Clients agree to the plan and mean it. Then the week gets hard. Follow-through isn’t a motivation problem, and it has a structural answer.
What MI Counts. What SF Keeps.
MI’s 2:1 reflection ratio is a technically demanding standard. Solution-Focused practice works through a different mechanism: keeping the client’s exact words rather than reshaping them.
How Optimism Can Get in the Way of Effective Coaching
Optimism helps clients believe in change. But the coaches who ask what happens when it doesn’t go well are the ones who help clients stay the course.
Beyond Motivational Interviewing: Dr. Deborah Teplow at the Coach Catalyst Nutrition Summit
Dr. Deborah Teplow’s full session from the Coach Catalyst Nutrition Summit. Why motivated clients don’t follow through, and what builds follow-through instead.
What Gives Follow-Through Its Best Chance
Motivation is a state. It fades when the client is tired or stressed. Why a described preferred future, not motivation, gives follow-through its best chance.
Two Kinds of Precision
The Solution-Focused approach uses the client’s exact words in the next question. Motivational Interviewing trains the opposite skill. Here’s why the difference matters.
Practice Before It Counts: SolutionCoach AI™ Gets a Major Upgrade
Stamina Lab announces a major upgrade to SolutionCoach AI, the practice partner that lets health professionals rehearse coaching conversations in private.