How to Practice Authenticity: 10 Evidence-Based Coaching Practices
Describe almost anything you are working through and IX Coach finds the practices whose real-world fit is closest. For How to Practice Authenticity, these are the strongest matches in the current practice library.
Practices that may help
- Cultivate authenticity
Let go of who you think you’re supposed to be and show up as who you actually are.
The Gifts of Imperfection, Made Practical - Apply strengths consciously in your most important relationships
Identify how your signature strengths are showing up — or failing to show up — in the relationships that matter most.
VIA Character Strengths, Made Practical - Always abide by the three principles
Maintain your vow, don’t show off, and practise impartially with everyone — not just the people you like.
Lojong: Tibetan Mind Training - Embed your virtues in a practice community
The virtues needed for excellence in any serious practice (craft, sport, relationship) are real virtues — find the practice that calls them out.
Virtue Ethics, Made Practical - The practice of personal integrity
Keep your behavior aligned with your stated values — match your walk to your talk.
The Six Pillars of Self-Esteem, Made Practical - Build self-familiarity with new identities through low-stakes repetition
Repeatedly acting in a new way — even in small doses — makes the new behavior feel like you.
The Mere Exposure Effect, Made Practical - Use public commitment to close the action gap
Announce a specific next skill-building action to someone who will follow up.
The Confidence–Competence Loop - Model the values you expect (idealized influence)
Become a living example of the values you want your team to hold.
Transformational Leadership, Made Practical - Learning through exemplar study
Study the conduct of a person you consider exemplary and identify one specific behaviour you can emulate.
Confucian Self-Cultivation: The Mencius Approach - Live what you study
Make your practice your philosophy — not a separate reading life and a separate daily life.
Philosophy as a Way of Life
Does this sound like the set of challenges you might be facing?
- I’m so used to managing how I come across that I’m not even sure people know the real me
- With the person closest to me I’ve fallen into playing a role, and the most real parts of me stay tucked away
- I’m kind and openhearted with the people I already love and quietly closed off to the ones who get under my skin, and I’m realizing that warmth that only flows toward easy people isn’t really the practice
- I work on my character all in my own head, by my own standards, and it stays abstract and unproven
- I keep acting against what I say I value and breaking the small promises I make to myself, and each time I lose a little face with the one person I can never get away from
Related concerns
- Cultivating Authenticity
Let go of who you think you’re supposed to be and show up as who you actually are.
Cultivate authenticity
- Authenticity Exercise
Identify how your signature strengths are showing up — or failing to show up — in the relationships that matter most.
Apply strengths consciously in your most important relationships
- Cultivating Authenticity Meaning
Let go of who you think you’re supposed to be and show up as who you actually are.
- Hand On Heart Practice
The virtues needed for excellence in any serious practice (craft, sport, relationship) are real virtues — find the practice that calls them out.
Embed your virtues in a practice community
- How Can I Become More Authentic Is Authenticity Something That Can Be Learned And Developed
Let go of who you think you’re supposed to be and show up as who you actually are.
- Role Model Behaviour Practice
Select a specific person whose character in a specific domain you want to internalize, and study how they act — not just what they say.
Choose and study role models deliberately
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