Stamina Lab has released a major upgrade to SolutionCoach AI™, the AI practice partner included in Foundations in Solution-Focused Health Coaching. The tool gives students a private, low-stakes way to practice the conversations that matter most, before they have them with real people.
Why practice needs a safe place
Anyone who has learned a clinical or coaching skill knows the gap between understanding an approach and using it fluently in a live conversation. Reading about a preferred future question is easy. Asking one naturally, in the flow of a real conversation with a real person, is a skill. And the only way to build a skill is repetition.
The problem is that real conversations are a hard place to practice. The stakes are real, the person in front of you is real, and there is no pause button.
SolutionCoach AI removes those stakes. Students choose from ten common client issues and concerns, from sleep and stress to chronic conditions, and a simulated client opens the conversation with a real-world concern. The student coaches. The client responds the way real clients do: sometimes open, sometimes hesitant, always human in tone. After every student coaching response, the tool signals whether the response was "above the line" in the area of the resourceful past or hopeful future, or slipped "below the line" into the troubled past and dreaded future. No judgment or scoring . . . just a simple indicator of where the response fell, and another chance to try.
What's new in this release
The upgrade touches nearly every part of the experience:
Real-Time Pacing. The simulated client now responds with the rhythm of a real person in a chat. Practice feels less like a quiz and more like a session.
Autosave. Every exchange saves as it happens, so a closed laptop costs students nothing.
Handoff. An interrupted session waits on whatever device a student picks up next.
Session Replay. Students can read any past conversation back in full, any time.
Visible Progress. A chart tracks each student's above-the-line rate, session by session.
Redesigned Throughout. As comfortable on a phone between appointments as on a laptop.
"Honestly, the hard part of learning this approach isn't understanding it. It's the first time you try it with a real person and your brain goes blank. We built SolutionCoach AI so that first time can happen somewhere safe, with a client who has all the patience in the world."
Glen LubbertCEO and Co-Founder
Built for how professionals actually learn
SolutionCoach AI was designed and built by Stamina Lab as part of its behavior-change platform, and it reflects the same evidence-based approach taught in the certification. Practice sessions are private to each student, and the tool is included with enrollment. There is nothing to install and nothing extra to buy: students sign in and their simulated client opens the conversation.
"You can know a coaching model thoroughly and still not be able to use it well in a live conversation. Coaching is a behavioral skill that develops through structured repetition and feedback: trying a question, seeing where it takes the conversation, and making a better choice the next time. As those choices become quicker, more natural, and more precise, the coaching becomes more fluent. Study provides the framework, but practice turns what the coach knows into a skill that delivers results."
Dr. Deborah TeplowCo-Founder and Chief Program Officer
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SolutionCoach AI is included in Foundations in Solution-Focused Health Coaching, Stamina Lab's self-paced certification for health and performance professionals. The program is approved for 6.0 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™ through Indiana University School of Medicine and 0.70 Continuing Education Credits through the American Council on Exercise (ACE).
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