ARCHEUS COACHING PROTOCOL METHODOLOGY
«The unconscious can reserve essential messages for the ears that know how to listen. Until you make your unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it destiny. “
—Carl Gustav Jung.
“We cannot truly know our whole being without knowing the unconscious part and understanding how it shapes our feelings, beliefs, decisions and actions. The unconscious is constantly guiding our behavior. “
— John Bargh
Advantages of incorporating Archeus Coaching Protocol to your professional experience
As a Psychologist or Coach, you will improve your professional skills, with an innovative, agile and effective methodology, which will provide your clients with an experience of great significance and power.
Acquire the necessary prestige to expand your work, belonging to the community of certified Psychologists and Coaches specialized in working with archetypes.
With this methodology, based on the dialogue with the unconscious archetypes, you will be able to give voice to the invisible and unconscious client so that they can dialogue and cooperate with the visible and conscious client, to reach agreements.
The great challenge of the Psychologist or Coach
When a client seeks psychological counseling and advice, he does so for two main reasons.
1. He has a purpose, meaning he wants or needs to achieve something.
2. He has difficulty achieving it.
When we start a process of accompaniment of a client, in reality we are attending two clients: one who believes he has knowledge and the other who makes decisions.
The first client speaks and believes himself strong, the second has strength and acts invisibly. They come together, they are companions on the same journey, but they do not know each other and often avoid each other. Sometimes they even want different things. Being able to establish a dialogue between both characters, to make them look at each other and talk to each other, is crucial so that the decisions that your client makes are conscious and help them in achieving their purpose.
We call the first client the CONSCIOUS. We call the second one the UNCONSCIOUS. The unconscious exercises a decisive influence on decision-making at all times. The great challenge of the psychologist-coach is to get both clients to talk to each other and to agree. Working with archetypes is an effective strategy for clients to overcome their internal obstacles and, at the same time, connect with their talents and resources.
5 stages of the process
I. Archetypal definition of purpose: The objective that the client sets for himself not only responds to a conscious vision of what he wants, but to different unconscious needs that provoke that desire and impel him to action. The approach to his archetypes allows him to discover a new internal dimension that powerfully influences his decision-making.
II. Archetypal empowerment of beliefs: Beliefs are the map of the journey. They are the permissions that we give ourselves to feel, think and act. Some hold us back and limit us, others empower us and give us freedom. Working with archetypes explore the client’s unconscious mind and updates his map.
III. Archetypal Alignment of Values: Values are the compass of our journey. Working with archetypes allows you to align the client’s values with his purpose. Otherwise, motivation will suffer and resistance will arise , make it difficult to achieve what you want.
IV. Archetypal anchoring of resources: Resources are what will allow us to start our journey in a proactive way and overcome the difficulties that may appear: strong legs, boots, poles, canteen … Archetypes will allow the client to empower himself, and recognize those talents that will help him achieve his purpose.
V. Design of the Action Plan: After achieving harmony between the values, beliefs and resources of the client, it is time to develop a Strategy and an Action Plan that will lead the client to achieve his purpose. The Action Plan enables real progress and subsequent evaluation.
How to put the methodology into practice?
The necessary tool to develop such a methodology is a virtual platform, called ARCHEUS COACHING BOARD, which includes a board (which guides the process), some customizable card decks (which represent the archetypes) and some tokens.
INVESTIGATION
- In order to verify the effective result of the methodology, an experimental research process was initiated in July 2020. The results have been presented at the 10th International Congress of Coaching Psychology, 2020 held in virtual format in October. Initially, a pilot study was designed to prepare a later larger study. The conclusions of this investigation have been the following:
- The Archeus Coaching Protocol methodology has obtained greater than expected results in facilitating the alignment of the client’s purpose with their values, beliefs, resources and action plan.
- The degree of satisfaction achieved by the client with the application of this methodology is much higher than expected.
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