Coaching in 12 Steps

The narrative approach

Learn to coach using the narrative psychology of the Double Healix model of human development and the Crossfire coaching technique.

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12 h 7 min
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What is coaching?

Phase in life: Prologue

About this course


COACHING IN 12 STEPS: The narrative approach


This e-learning on coaching provides real-world insights by analysing powerful film scenes and documentary clips that showcase effective coaching interventions. By learning from the best coaching examples, you’ll enhance your communication skills and refine your ability to tailor your coaching style to the unique needs of each client.


Master the art of coaching through narrative psychology

✅ Expand your coaching repertoire with the best examples from films, series and documentaries.

✅ Guide your clients in creating a coherent life story that empowers them.

✅ Help clients balance conflicting truths and navigate life’s complexities.

✅ Coach individuals and teams to reach their full potential and optimal performance.


What you’ll learn in this coaching training

🔹 Recognise patterns, gain insights and increase ownership

Discover the 12 essential coaching interventions based on narrative psychology and storytelling. Help clients identify recurring life patterns, gain profound self-awareness, and take ownership of their personal and professional growth.

🔹 Offer structure and coherence with the Double Healix model

The Double Healix model provides a structured approach to mapping personal experiences, helping clients reframe their narratives into more constructive and empowering life stories.

🔹 Manage tension fields and find balance

With the Double Healix Crossfire coaching technique, you’ll guide clients in navigating inner and interpersonal conflicts, using creative interventions to help them achieve balance.

🔹 Ask deeper questions and unlock transformative insights

Master the art of deep questioning to get to the core issue behind the surface question. Move beyond half-truths, help clients manage complexity, and unlock breakthrough insights.

🔹 Master individual and team coaching

Learn how to coach at both the individual and team level, using universal storytelling principles to help clients break through stagnation, overcome crises, and connect their personal growth with a broader narrative.

🔹 Strengthen your inner compass and personal development with the Double Healix model

Inspired by Joseph Campbell’s Hero’s Journey, the Double Healix model offers a dynamic roadmap for personal and professional development. It helps clients:

- Identify core values and navigate tension fields

- Avoid one-sided perspectives and embrace paradoxes

- Manage stress and reconcile opposing forces in their lives


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Develop your coaching style through inspiring skills examples from feature films and documentaries. Get a sneak peek into the course by accessing the introductory lesson and section 1.1.


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A range of coaching interventions
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Among others, these interventions are addressed in the course:
·    Tailor interventions to the stage the client is at
·    Encourage and confront with compassion
·    Balance influence and powerlessness
·    Cover up or open up
·    Balance self-control and spontaneity
·    Bring play and seriousness into reconciliation
·    Combine result orientation with principled courage
·    Broaden self-image and worldview in finding meaningful direction
Sources of inspiration
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The term ‘coach’ is interpreted broadly in this course. The examples we show vary from coach, psychotherapist, consultant, (sports) trainer, team member and leader to educator, friend and partner. We give examples from various fields and invite you to translate them as metaphors applicable within your own practice. This helps you as a coach to recognize and use many sources of inspiration in your work.
In-depth and safe way of learning
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Research shows that people learn new, desired behaviour best by first observing it. Through immersion in positive film footage (including analysis and reflection) the process is followed through by making the desired behaviour your own through practice. A good film offers easy engagement and at the same time sufficient emotional distance to make comparison between what’s displayed and one's own themes transparent.
Layout of the course
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Module 1: Individual and Team Coaching
To offer a deeper insight into the different styles of individual and team coaching, we take you on a journey through the 12 phases of individual and team development. During this journey, we will address the underlying principle of each phase, the corresponding field of tension, including theme and form of defense. Through insight and practice in the 12 types of coaching interventions you will learn to better tune in to what the client needs at that moment in his or her life.

Module 2. The Double Healix Crossfire technique
To guide your client as a coach in enduring and handling dilemmas, we will discuss the Double Healix Crossfire technique in module 2. This gives you insight into the six fields of tension that play a role between the 12 phases in the universal human journey. With this technique you can ask better questions and help your client to be stronger in the midst of contradictory truths. The course offers you tools to handle more truth, both in your own life and in the life of your client.

About the authors
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The course is developed by Double Healix, an international training team for leadership development that also designed the MovieLearning methodology. The Double Healix team consists of (organisational) psychologists, psychotherapists, educators, team supervisors, leadership trainers, managers and film experts.
Manfred van Doorn is the guiding force behind this course. He is a top executive coach, leadership trainer and film expert with more than 30 years of experience. He also has over 20 years experience as a psychologist/psychotherapist.

Curriculum

Introduction

Can you take life seriously and, at the same time, see it as a story? Can you take life seriously and, at the same time, see it as a story?

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Life as a story

What is coaching?

Table of contents

Module 1

1. The 12 steps of coaching

This section consists of twelve paragraphs in which we discuss narrative psychology and the twelve steps of coaching. Each paragraph covers a phase in the story, the underlying principle, the central field of tension, the theme and forms of psychological defense. We then link these to the phase in individual coaching and team coaching. For each phase we give examples of interventions from films and documentaries. This section consists of twelve paragraphs in which we discuss narrative psychology and the twelve steps of coaching. Each paragraph covers a phase in the story, the underlying principle, the central field of tension, the theme and forms of psychological defense. We then link these to the phase in individual coaching and team coaching. For each phase we give examples of interventions from films and documentaries.

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Phase in life: Prologue

Underlying principle and field of tension

Themes, excess and deficiency

The two Steve's paradox: the trajectory of chance

The acceptance paradox

Defense mechanisms in the area of the Prologue

Style of coaching - the silent influence of the network

Individual coaching: the 'dots' in history and future

Team coaching: Forming

Closure of the Prologue phase

Phase in life: Call to Adventure

Underlying principle and field of tension

Theme, excess and deficiency

Defense mechanisms in the area of the Call to Adventure

Style of coaching - What do you want to get out of coaching?

Individual coaching: setting the tone

Team coaching: Storming

Closure of the Call to Adventure

Phase in life: Resistance to Change

Underlying principle and field of tension

Theme, excess and deficiency

Defense mechanisms in the area of Resistance to Change

Style of coaching - Building resistance

Individual coaching: stability

Team coaching: Norming

Closure of the phase Resistance to Change

Phase in life: Mentor

Underlying principle and field of tension

Theme, excess and deficiency

Defense mechanisms in the area of the Mentor

Style of coaching - Map of the soul

Individual coaching: offering other perspectives

Teamcoaching: Informing

Closure of the Mentor phase

Phase in life: The Selection Threshold

Underlying principle and field of tension

Theme, excess and deficiency

Defence mechanisms in the area of the Selection Threshold

Style of coaching: benchmark moments

Individual coaching: matter-of-fact, prioritizing

Team coaching: Performing

Closure of the Selection Threshold phase

Phase in life: Star of the Day

Underlying principle and field of tension

Theme, excess and deficiency

Defense mechanisms in the area of the Star

Style of coaching - Express yourself

Individual coaching: twofold passion

Teamcoaching: Celebrating

Closure of the Star of the Day phase

Phase in life: Grounding

Underlying principle and field of tension

Theme, excess and deficiency

Defense mechanisms in the area of Grounding

Style of coaching - Personal style and commitment

Individual coaching: control and boundaries

Teamcoaching: Formalising

Closure of the Grounding phase

Phase in life: Reversal of Fortune

Underlying principle and field of tension

Theme, excess and deficiency

Defense mechanisms in the area of the Reversal

Style of coaching - Deep watching and deep listening

Individual coaching: listening, watching, holding the space

Teamcoaching: Blown away

Closure of the Reversal phase

Phase in Life: Dagger

Underlying principle and field of tension

Theme, excess and deficiency

Defense mechanisms in the area of the Dagger

Style of coaching: Shadow work

Individual coaching: going deep

Team coaching: Mourning

Closure of the Dagger phase

Phase in life: Back to the Light

Underlying principle and field of tension

Theme, excess and deficiency

Defense mechanisms in the area of Return to Light

Style of coaching - To the essence

Individual coaching: finding meaning and direction

Team coaching: Regrouping

Closure of the Return to the Light phase

Phase in life: Resurrection

Underlying principle and field of tension

Theme, excess and deficiency

Defense mechanisms in the area of Resurrection

Style of coaching - Walk the talk

Individual coaching: the secret will

Team coaching: Transforming

Closure of the Death and Resurrection phase

Phase in life: Elixir

Underlying principle and field of tension

Theme, excess and deficit

Defense mechanisms in the area of Elixir

Style of coaching: helping, humble and withheld

Individual coaching: servitude, closure

Team coaching: Serving

Concluding the Journey

Module 2

2. The Double Healix Crossfire coaching technique

This section is about a counseling technique that allows you to help clients see and experience their underlying dilemmas. The basis of the technique was developed in psychotherapy but it is also very effective in coaching, not only to increase insight and facilitate processing but especially to optimize the learning experience and to help strengthen the sovereignty of the client. This section is about a counseling technique that allows you to help clients see and experience their underlying dilemmas. The basis of the technique was developed in psychotherapy but it is also very effective in coaching, not only to increase insight and facilitate processing but especially to optimize the learning experience and to help strengthen the sovereignty of the client.

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The Crossfire: Optimal learning in optimal stress

A barrel of contradictions

The centre of the cyclone

The added value of the Double Healix MAPS

Coaching in the tension between surrender and control

Example 1

Example 2

Coaching between action and waiting

Example

Coaching between harmony and sharpness

Example

Coaching between diversity and unity

Example 1

Example 2

Example 3

Coaching between outer ambitions and inner certainty

Example 1

Example 2

Coaching between the self and the other

Example 1

Example 2

Example 3

Example 4

In the middle of opposites

Your Crossfire

Congratulations, you have finished all steps!

5.0

Numbers of reviews: 2

Valuable

Anita Martens | Coach

Valuable course. Step by step you are taken along. The combination with the film footage works well.

Much to learn

Froukje Stam | Pedagogical coach

I enjoyed the course. Step by step you are taken along. Fine oral explanations, bits of text and beautiful film images. I find that this combination works well. Really gained new insights.

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