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Name of the good practice: TRC

TRANSFORMIKA COACHING CARDS

Country: Bulgaria

WHY DOES COACHING WORK

• It is basically applied psychology

• It chunks down big issues into manageable steps

• It is result-oriented towards conscious goal commitment

• It is focused on where you want to get and how to get there

• It helps clarifying challenges and reveals blind-spots

• It provides you with a tool to get your life into the desired direction

Transformika Cards Cards is a result-oriented tool based on applied psychology and powerful coaching questions.

The Cards are easy to use and they empower people to transform and become happy and well-rounded individuals.

TRANSFORMIKA COACHING CARDS

Stimulate ongoing learning and personal development.

BENEFITS OF USING TRC

Facilitate creative and analytical thinking.

Create a safe space for active self-discovery and challenges analysis.

Encourage, support & help remain motivated as we go through important transformations.

Empower finding out our own answers and practical solutions.

Easy to use, practical and result oriented.

• For individual use (at home, at work, in a café, or while traveling).

• With a friend, a colleague, a coach, a mentor or a consultant.

• To preserve the transformative effect of trainings or seminars.

• To support a desired transformation.

• For use during team meetings, interest groups, or classroom activities.

• For practical exercises during trainings and team-buildings.

• For a useful & innovative present

APPLICATION OF TRC

WHAT IS INCLUDED IN EACH TRC SET

Instructions for working with the topics & coaching mantras cards.

Thirty-two cards with Life & Professional topics. Each cards tackles one of these topics.

Two Joker cards for stimulating creativity, ideas and options generation

Sixty Coaching Mantras (positive affirmations) to help transform limiting believes

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Start…

FIRST: DECIDE ON HOW TO USE TRC

Decide on how are you going to use Transformika Coaching Cards?

With (or as) a friend, partner, mentor, coach, counsellor or consultant.

Individually In a team, a group of interests or after-college classes

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SECOND: CHOOSE A TOPIC

Pick a random card from the deck with thirty-two topics.

Choose the topic that resonates the most with your current challenge.

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THIRD: ANSWER THE QUESTIONS

JUST FOLLOW THE ORDER AND ANSWER ALL QUESTIONS FROM THE CHOSEN CARD.

ANSWER THE QUESTIONSIndividual work

1. Be honest with yourself to really get a meaningful result.

2. Put your answers in writing. It has three main advantages:

First: Writing down your thoughts structures & orders them. It makes it easier to see the whole picture.

Second: Writing down is like a meditation - it helps you distance from your challenge and look at it more objectively.

Third: Your brain has operational capacity - everything you keep in it takes out of it. When you write things down, you increase its operational capacity to solve problems and generate ideas.

ANSWER THE QUESTIONSWith a partner (you are the partner)1. Create a safe space: do not judge and promote honesty

2. Listen carefully, talk less (70% listening/30% talking)

3. Ask additional questions (agree on that in advance). Make sure they all start with: What? Who? When? How? Where? Which? Avoid the question Why? - it creates a sense of guilt.

4. Be careful not to lead to the answer you think is right. It is about the other person. Each person is different - you are the tool, the mirror that will help the other to find what is best for them (not for you).

5. Do not forget to have fun!

ANSWER THE QUESTIONSIn a team / group of interests

1. Preselect 3-5 topics that relate the most to the needs of the group at the moment.

2. Let the group vote on each topics & pick the one with the most votes.

3. Your are the moderator - start asking the questions on the card one by one. You need to take care that people listen to one another, that they do not get into a conflict and time is spent equally on each person.

4. Each member of the team/group answers each question. The rule is that they are not allowed to use already given answer or idea. They need to think of a new answer or a new idea.

5. As a moderator you can support the group by asking additional questions. But only open questions. Pay attention to not lead them towards what you think is right.

6. Enjoy the process of co-creation!

TRANSFORMATION IS A PROCESS, NOT A ONE TIME ACTION.

TO REMEBER

Anyone can unlock their hidden potential and become THE BEST THEY CAN BE with Transformika Cards

Asking the right questions help you see challenges and the world around you in a different perspective; to build on your life and professional skills and to broaden your opportunities.

The cards are designed to spark thoughts in you head, help you gain clarity on your challenges. The powerful consecutive questions will smoothly guide you through the process.

EACH TRANSFORMIKA CARD IS LIKE A FUNEL

ACTIONABLE RESULT

INFORMATION | OPINIONS | EXPECTATIONS | FEARS | IDEAS | OPPORTUNITIES | LIMITATIONS

STEP 1: Explore the problem, idea, challenge and the reality

STEP 2: Generate as many options (way forward) as possible

STEP 3: Choose the first step and commit to it

STEP 1 - EXPLORATION

It includes the main question and the subsequent mostly four questions on each TR card.

These questions aim to explore the topic, the problem or the challenge.

The first step takes care of exploring what you have done or have not done so far and what is happening or not in your life.

Only when you know in detail what you are dealing with, you will be able to move forward towards solving or achieving what you want.

STEP 2 - IDEA GENERATION

This is the part of generating ideas for ways that can move you forward towards the desired direction (most often question 5 on each TR card).

This is where you are supposed to generate as many as possible ideas. Bear in mind - not each idea means a solution, neither it means that you need to implement all ideas.

The more ideas you generate - the bigger the chance you will go beyond the standard ideas and come up with something innovative that can spark a new for you solution.

STEP 2 - IDEA GENERATION(Rules for brainstorming)

DO NOT judge or censor your ideas while generating them - simply write them down. Perhaps the most foolish idea is to become the trigger for a new unexpected solution.

In the 1980s, Sony focused on how to improve their massive cassette recorders, which used many batteries and were very heavy to carry around. During brainstorming, an engineer had the idea to remove the speakers as they used the most power and were the heaviest. It may have sounded foolish, but it was this idea that sparked the invention of Walkman, which for decades was a market leader.

When generating ideas, there must be a time limit (for example, 20 ideas in 5 minutes). The brain functions much better when it is restricted.

Generate ideas, standing up - this also stimulates creativity.

STEP 2 - IDEA GENERATION(Using the JOKER cards)

Sometimes, it happens that your mind just blocks and you cannot generate ideas no matter how hard you try. Then the Joker Cards come to help by enhancing your creativity. They put your imagination under a certain condition that helps it to come up with new, unexpected ideas.

Take one or both Joker Cards and start answering the questions on them to generate different ideas. The questions on the Joker Cards can be answered in succession; you can choose which questions to answer; you can decide to answer only 5 questions, 10 questions or all of them. What is important is that you are satisfied with the number of ideas you have generated (not he quality).

Again, do not forget that you want to generate as many as possible ideas to choose from, to test and to trigger a potential new solution.

STEP 3 - WAY FORWARD

This is the most practical and action-oriented part. When you have generated enough ideas, with this last step (most often questions six to ten on each TR card), you will have to make a choice. You always need to choose just one option.

The choice you can make based on what you can implement the fastest, what will be the easiest to do, or just choose the one option that you like the most.

The last step of each TR card is dedicated to discovering and committing to the very first step you will take in the desired direction.

Transformika Coaching Cards are very simple and easy to use. No previous experience or special qualification is required to use them.

It is an advantage if you have already been engaged into self-exploration and development, but it is absolutely not a must.

Anyone who is interested in personal development can use Transformika Coaching Cards. Use them for individual exploration, business teams, group work and professional utilisation in the fields of life & executive coaching, counselling, psychology, career orientation, management, leadership, entrepreneurship, HR, training and more.

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