Stamina Lab Blog
Insights on solution-focused coaching, communication, and the science behind lasting patient and client outcomes.
Beyond SMART Goals: Why Your Clients Need a “Preferred Future” to Achieve Real Change
Discover why traditional goal-setting often fails and how helping clients build a “preferred future” activates the neural pathways needed for lasting behavior change.
Two Respected Institutions Just Recognized What Our Graduates Already Know
Foundations in Solution-Focused Health Coaching Certification is now approved by ACE for 0.70 continuing education credits and recognized by Indiana University School of Medicine. CE credits that change what happens in your next session.
Coaching the “Uncoachable”: How a Solution-Focused Stance Reaches Reluctant Clients
Discover why traditional motivation-building can stall with reluctant or mandated clients — and how a Solution-Focused approach creates genuine engagement from the very first question.
Stop Fighting for Your Client
When a client knows what to do but isn’t doing it, the instinct is to fight for them. Here’s why that backfires, and the Solution-Focused move that puts ownership back where it belongs.
Select and Preserve: Why Your Paraphrasing Might Be Blocking Client Progress
When you paraphrase a client’s words, you’re making a choice — not just a communication decision. Research into the microanalysis of therapeutic conversations shows that how practitioners handle client contributions directly predicts follow-through. Here’s what the evidence says.
The Brief Coaching Session: Why You Should Stop Evoking Motivation and Start Building a Preferred Future
The check-in is scheduled for 15 minutes. Your client is struggling with a habit they’ve committed to...