- Learner-centric process
- Non-directive style
- Non-threatening – keeps emotional brain calm
- Empathetic connection
- Provoking positive emotions
- Finding out how the learner learns best
- Connects language learning to real life
- Connects the learning to personal situations
- Chunking down
- Understanding each brain is unique – no one fit for all
- Provoking constant brain connections/triggering language connections
- Providing safe learning environment
- Spacing techniques for learning
- We inform about the brain so coachee can understand self better
- Goals and actions get the coachee more focused
- Setting own goals and actions brings ownership of the learning
- Discovering real motivation as the vision for learning
- Maintaining commitment as a coach
- Positive feedback ensures right brain chemistry
- Awareness of limbic triggers and ability to coach around these at any time
- No questions that arouse defense mechanisms
- Right focus and attention ensures reinforcing of neural networks
- Pushing learner into flow to encourage performing brain
- Knowledge of social pain increases our empathy
- We bring certainty to language learning
- Coaching conversations that keep the brain in calm learning state
- Grammar delivered through calm step by step coaching conversations
- We help the learner to get language “normalised” by the brain and accepted as a “habit”
( Copyright © 2017 Rachel Marie Paling)
https://rachelpaling.com/so-what-makes-neurolanguage-coaching-a-brain-friendly-process/
