Do it When you want to talk about personal development. Flow is the mental state of operation in which a person in an activity is fully immersed in a feeling of energized focus, full involvement, and success in the process of the activity. Proposed by Mihály Csíkszentmihályi, the positive psychology concept has been widely referenced across a variety of fields. We are going to use it by drawing a diagram where your coachee will point where he is right now on skill level. Then he will point where he is on challenge level. Next step is to point where he wants to be in 6 months period wishing to be in a state of Flow. Immediately he will have coordination where he has to be in skill level. Now he will have to make action plan how he will come to that level of skills.
Now, coaching questions for you:
1. What is the area of your life where you want to make progress?
2. Where are you right now on this diagram on skills scale?
3. Where are you right now on this diagram on challenge scale?
4. How satisfied you are with this state on a scale from 1 to 10?
5. How important to you is to make a progress?
6. Where you would like to be on this flow channel in 6 months period?
7. Who would you be when you made that progress?
8. How challenging it would be to you?
9. What level of skills would be correspondent to that state of flow?
10. Now, tell me what actions you need to take in time frame of 6 months?
11. What would be the very first step?
12. What will be the first sign that you are on the right track?
13. How would you feel when you have to make the very step?
14. How happy you are with this session?
Thank you and good luck.