Coaching practices for Gross Process Model

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• In the middle of performing my mind is so crowded
• Our conversations just wander wherever the loudest voice takes them, and whole angles get skipped while we overcook others
• I glance at the whole thing and go "yeah, a weekend" without ever listing out the actual steps
• I keep my head down and stay busy so I never actually feel the loss, and now it ambushes me at random and won’t metabolize
• Every project I’m juggling lives in one giant shared list, so when I sit down to focus on one thing I have to mentally sift past everything else first, and I can never tell how far along any single project actually is.

Practices that may help

1. The Dual Process Model of Grief, Made Practical
   The Dual Process Model (DPM), developed by Margaret Stroebe and Henk Schut, describes healthy grief as oscillation between two orientations: loss-oriented (engaging with the pain of losing the person) and restoration-oriented (attending to the practical and identity challenges of life without them). The model is well-regarded in grief research and provides a framework for understanding why taking breaks from grief is healthy, not avoidant.
2. Use a process goal as an in-performance attention anchor
   Convert your most important process goal into a single attention cue that runs during the performance.
   Process vs. Outcome Goals in Sport and Performance
3. The Two-Process Model of Sleep
   Alexander Borbély’s two-process model describes sleep as the interaction of two independent systems: Process S (homeostatic sleep pressure, which builds throughout waking hours like a battery draining) and Process C (the circadian clock, which gates sleep propensity in a 24-hour rhythm). Good sleep requires both processes to align — sleep pressure high and the clock in its nighttime phase simultaneously. The model is well established in sleep science.
4. Blue hat: manage the thinking process itself
   Step back from the content to manage which hat is needed next — the blue hat is the meta-thinking conductor.
   Six Thinking Hats, Made Practical
5. Decompose tasks and sum the pieces
   Estimate each sub-task independently, then add them up — the sum is closer to truth than a top-down estimate.
   The Planning Fallacy — Why Your Estimates Are Always Wrong
6. Process Goals, Made Practical
   Process goals focus on the specific behaviors and techniques under the performer’s direct control (how you execute) rather than on outcomes (whether you win). Sport psychology research consistently finds that process goals maintain attention on controllable actions, reduce anxiety, and improve performance consistency — especially under pressure — while pure outcome goals can undermine both.
7. Deliberately engage loss-oriented work
   Set aside dedicated time to directly face the grief — the emotions, the absence, the meaning of the loss.
   The Dual Process Model of Grief, Made Practical
8. Keep each project’s Action Steps physically separate from other projects
   Mixing action steps from different projects in a single list increases context-switching cost and makes progress harder to see.
   The Action Method, Made Practical
9. Practice reading the whole situation, not just tracking individual elements
   Develop the ability to perceive a situation as a unified whole rather than as a checklist of components.
   The Dreyfus Model: Five Stages from Novice to Expert
10. The GROW Coaching Model, Made Practical
    GROW (Goal, Reality, Options, Will) is a structured four-stage conversation framework that guides a person from a clear goal through an honest assessment of current reality, to a generated set of options, and finally to a committed action. It is the most widely used coaching model in executive and workplace coaching; evidence is primarily practitioner consensus and observational, not randomized controlled trials.

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