So I have started my first session with a practice client...It lasted 90 minutes and I took her through Pillar 1 and described the human experience of placing meaning on an event and how that interpretation influences all our subsequent behaviours. I then took her through the Sacred 4 to help elicit exactly what her challenges were wich we identified as her getting bored easily at work and goes into self sabotage by destructively spending money until she gets into crisis mode. This is a re-occuring pattern. Within this identification of the problem I made a note of several stand out statements and repeated back to what these were and asked her to let me know which one kind of stands out for her. This for her was "I am not worthy of success". This led me onto going through Pillar 2 and the 14 questions. This was very clunky obviously and at times it was difficult to construct a logical question. I am guessing what I was doing worked because there was lots of silence and thinking which is good for her as she usually speaks at a very rapid rate!! I am really unsure whether this is the correct process but now I am assuming in her second session I will lead onto Pillar 3 or would I pick another one of her statements and continue on Pillar 2? Asny advice or suggestions would be great appreciated 😄

So session two with my client involved in focusing on what she truly wanted and honing in on the Sacred 4. For her it was Impact as she said she has a tendency of being successful in business for two years and then self sabotaging to the poing of crisis and panic. Here is the contradction and secondary gain...When she is poor and miserable she is surrounded by people who fuss over her...When she is abundant, successful and residing in exotic locations then she felt lonely...So we come up with the new belief and declaration...'I get to pick and choose what company I surround myself with whilst being healthy, wealthy and happy.'

As a philosophy, kintsugi is similar to the Japanese philosophy of wabi-sabi, an embracing of the flawed or imperfect.[10][11] Japanese aesthetics values marks of wear from the use of an object. This can be seen as a rationale for keeping an object around even after it has broken; it can also be understood as a justification of kintsugi itself, highlighting cracks and repairs as events in the life of an object, rather than allowing its service to end at the time of its damage or breakage.[12] The philosophy of kintsugi can also be seen as a variant of the adage, "Waste not, want not".[13] Kintsugi can relate to the Japanese philosophy of mushin) (無心, "no mind"), which encompasses the concepts of non-attachment, acceptance of change, and fate as aspects of human life.[14] Not only is there no attempt to hide the damage, but the repair is literally illuminated... a kind of physical expression of the spirit of mushin)....Mushin is often literally translated as "no mind," but carries connotations of fully existing within the moment, of non-attachment, of equanimity amid changing conditions. ...The vicissitudes of existence over time, to which all humans are susceptible, could not be clearer than in the breaks, the knocks, and the shattering to which ceramic ware too is subject. This poignancy or aesthetic of existence has been known in Japan as mono no aware, a compassionate sensitivity, or perhaps identification with, [things] outside oneself.

So I have completed the Expert Coaching but I have not practiced on anybody yet (I have two or three people to start with soon) So I assume the client has to have a real pain point in their life...I am also assuming the consultation from the COA process would have fully qualified them so Pillar 1 can kind of be skipped? Also at what point do you introduce the Sarcred 4?