Page 89 - Austin Coaching Handbook

Chair Swap: Flexible Thinking

Practise this at least a few times a week so

thinking it through becomes a fast neural

connection:

1. Take one issue that happened in the previous few days.

2. Label chairs with the names of people involved in the issue

3. One by one, sit in each chair. Try and get into the brain of that

person. What were they thinking? Feeling? Try to explain your

perspective as if you were them.

4. Now imagine you are in a helicopter looking down. What

would you say about the situation now?

5. Now imagine you are someone who happened to be walking

by. What did they think and feel when they saw this happen?

Is it the same as your perspective or different?