Perma Model Example: 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 Perma Model Example, these are the strongest matches in the current practice library.

Practices that may help

1. Seligman’s PERMA Model, Made Practical
   Martin Seligman’s PERMA model identifies five pillars of well-being: Positive Emotions, Engagement, Relationships, Meaning, and Accomplishment. Unlike happiness models that treat well-being as a single variable, PERMA argues these five elements are each intrinsically valued and each independently improvable. Several PERMA-targeted interventions have randomized-trial support; others are mechanistically grounded with less direct evidence.
2. Build meaning through contribution rather than achievement (meaning pillar)
   Orient your work toward what it does for others, not just what it earns you.
   Seligman’s PERMA Model, Made Practical
3. Audit your life against PERMA
   Check well-being across all five pillars — emotion, engagement, relationships, meaning, accomplishment.
   Positive Psychology, Made Practical
4. Run a PERMA audit of your current well-being
   Rate each of the five PERMA pillars to find which is currently limiting your overall flourishing.
   Seligman’s PERMA Model, Made Practical
5. Maintain a personal model catalog with examples
   Keep a written inventory of your models, each illustrated with a real example from your own experience.
   Mental Models: Charlie Munger’s Latticework Approach
6. Track mastery progress, not just outcomes (accomplishment pillar)
   Measure your growth in capability over time, not only whether you hit your targets.
   Seligman’s PERMA Model, Made Practical
7. Constantly distinguish the map from the territory
   A model is a simplification — know precisely where yours breaks down.
   Mental Models: Charlie Munger’s Latticework Approach
8. The Perennial Philosophy, Made Practical
   The perennial philosophy, synthesized by Aldous Huxley from mystic and contemplative traditions across cultures, identifies a common inner core: a divine or ultimate ground underlying all existence, knowable through direct experience; an inner nature in humans capable of that knowing; and an ethics of love and compassion as the natural expression of that realization. It is not a scientific theory but a philosophical synthesis — its practices draw on contemplative traditions whose psychological effects have increasing observational and some experimental support.
9. Positive Psychology, Made Practical
   Martin Seligman’s positive psychology studies what makes life worth living, organized around the PERMA model — Positive emotion, Engagement, Relationships, Meaning, and Accomplishment. Several of its signature interventions, including three good things, the gratitude visit, and using signature strengths, have genuine randomized-trial support for raising well-being and lowering depressive symptoms.
10. Trim model complexity
    Prefer the simplest model of a situation that still fits all the evidence.
    Occam’s Razor: Prefer the Simpler Explanation

Does this sound like the set of challenges you might be facing?

• I keep hitting my targets and checking the boxes, and it keeps leaving me weirdly hollow→
• On paper my life looks successful→
• Something about my life feels off and I genuinely can’t name what→
• I read all these brilliant thinking tools and nod along, and then the moment I’m actually facing a hard problem not one of them comes to mind→
• My whole sense of whether I’m doing well rides on outcomes I don’t fully control, so when the results are slow or disappointing I feel like I’m getting nowhere→

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