Science of coaching
Often, people are completely unaware of how many activities they do that are completely automated by their brain. Changing our “auto pilot” requires forging new circuits in the prefrontal cortex. Carving out these new circuits in the brain happens through a process called myelination.
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Coaches are experts at keeping clients engaged in new thoughts and behaviors. Essentially coaching provides the framework to create and deepen new circuits in our prefrontal cortex. Ultimately, our thought process and behaviors start to work in a way that supports us in achieving the vision we have for ourselves.
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Coaching also builds the capacity in the brain to resist homeostasis (i.e., the automatic physiological process that opposes change from happening). The attention and focus that coaching creates helps us concentrate on the change we desire to make in life and to push past the brain’s anti-change signals.
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The more a neural pathway is used, the stronger it becomes. We truly can rewire ours brain in ways that create openness, creativity, and the optimal environment for neuroplasticity, leading to lasting, transformative change.
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~ excepts from an article by the Co-active Training Institute