i have a pet theory that conversations with other people - including but not limited to therapy or coaching sessions - should happen in multiples of 90 minutes. 60 minutes is not enough time and i think it's a shame that we settled on 60 as the default chunk
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my coaching calls are (now*) all 50 minutes or 90 minutes, make of that what you will
* I need to harmonise people who are on default 45 and 60 minutes from when I did those
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the 90 minute sessions though go extremely deep and I have limited capacity for those — I use these for initial 'discovery' calls, that are treated standalone, so people can just have that and then not continue
50 minutes is the ongoing weekly/fortnightly call
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interesting! i could imagine using 45m calls if what i was doing was closer to teaching techniques but i haven't tried to do much of that yet
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yeah if I'm gonna do more in depth IFS stuff I prefer to do it in a 90 minute session
anything less than 45 minutes feels like more like 'business coaching', if that makes sense?
like, "what did you get done, what are your goals for this week" fast moving stuff
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mhm yeah makes sense, haven't really been doing that but i could hmm
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I think there's a big opportunities for coaches who are 'psycho-technology' aware also doing 'normal' what are your goals type coaching
because inevitably the reason the goals don't get achieved is not lack of time/process but some tangle that needs untangling
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yep for sure. i've been having more success with clients who came in b/c there was a specific project or skill they wanted to work on and we've been looking at the emotional stuff around what's been making that hard