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The CORE model

How the work is structured

Nasos calls his approach Hybrid Coaching. It draws on coaching, counselling, mentoring and meditation practice rather than on a single school. Underneath it sits a four-step model called CORE, which is less a procedure than the shape most useful change turns out to take.

Challenge

What are you actually facing?

We gather everything about the situation and find the need behind the stated want. What are you dealing with, what do you want to achieve, and why. The last question is the one that does most of the work, because a goal that belongs to someone else's expectations rarely survives contact with a difficult week.

Questions in this step

  • What problem are you trying to solve?
  • How and when did it start?
  • What have you tried, and how did that go?
  • What would the finished state actually look like?

Obstacles and solutions

What is in the way, and what would work?

We separate internal obstacles from external ones. Internal means mindset, beliefs, ability, gaps, and intentions that compete with each other. External means people, circumstances and missing resources. We do the same for what you already have, which is almost always underestimated. Then we build a plan with concrete steps and a way of measuring progress.

Questions in this step

  • What needs to happen?
  • What stands in the way, in you and around you?
  • What do you need in order to get past it?
  • How will you know whether it is working?

Responsibility

What is within your control?

Responsibility here means capacity to act, not fault. You can carry no blame at all for a situation and still be the only person able to change it. Confusing the two stops people acting, because accepting responsibility feels like accepting they deserved it. Separating them is often the moment someone becomes able to move.

Questions in this step

  • What is genuinely yours to decide?
  • What is not, however much you would like it to be?
  • What belief or feeling would sabotage this?
  • What support needs to exist for you to follow through?

Execution and evaluation

The plan meets real life.

You act. At each following session we review what changed, handle whatever new difficulty has appeared, and correct the plan. Periodically we check whether the original goal is still the right one, because people change while they are working and a plan aimed at who you were six months ago will feel like a chore for reasons that have nothing to do with discipline.

Questions in this step

  • What actually happened?
  • What needs correcting?
  • Is this still the goal you want?

Two kinds of work

Most people arrive with a request: help me meet this challenge, help me achieve this thing. That work is legitimate and often produces results quickly. Sooner or later many reach a different point, where they see that problems will keep arriving and what they want is not another solution but a steadier mind. Both are valid. Being explicit about which one you want saves a good deal of time.

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