Create Coaching Clarity by Clearing, Reframing, & Making Distinctions

Before your client can move forward, they have to see clearly. These coaching skills help clean the glass—and reveal the view beyond.

Some windows don’t need to be replaced. They just need to be cleaned.

In coaching, clarity isn’t always about solving a problem or moving the client forward at full speed. Sometimes, it’s about removing what’s in the way—emotional fog, distorted perspectives, or tightly held beliefs that have been mistaken for truth.

The coaching conversation can only go as deep as the space allows.

And that space? It’s influenced by how present the client feels, how open they are to new ways of seeing, and how willing they are to separate what’s real from what’s learned.

That’s why three foundational Co-Active skills—Clearing, Reframing, and Making Distinctions—are more than helpful tools. They’re essential acts of self-management.

They help the coach stay attuned, responsive, and grounded. They create the conditions where insight isn’t forced, but invited. And they honor one of the most powerful beliefs in Co-Active Coaching: The client is naturally creative, resourceful, and whole.

Sometimes, all they need is help clearing the window. 🪟

Why These Skills Are Core to Coaching Presence

In the Co-Active model, self-management means staying aware of your own internal landscape so you can stay fully available to the client’s. It also means recognizing when the energy in the space needs attention—whether it’s cluttered by unspoken emotion, narrowed by assumption, or tangled in unconscious beliefs.

• Clearing restores presence.

• Reframing unlocks perspective.

• Making Distinctions untangles limiting beliefs.

These are subtle, behind-the-scenes moves, but they often determine whether a session remains on the surface—or dives into something truly transformational.

Clearing: Removing the Static

There are times when a client shows up emotionally full—frustrated, distracted, or just energetically “off.” You can feel the static. There’s something in the room that hasn’t been said yet, and it’s getting in the way.

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