Coaching practices for Rehearse Behavior

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

• There’s a conversation coming up that I’m dreading, and I keep picturing it going fine and then getting blindsided in the moment by their pushback or my own panic
• I’ve got the plan written down clear as day, but when the actual moment comes I freeze or just don’t do it
• There are things I rehearse over and over that I simply cannot do anything about, and I keep treating "let it go" like a switch I should be able to flip once and get frustrated when the worry comes right back
• Right before I perform I keep picturing the win or the trophy, and it gets me amped but my body still feels unrehearsed for the actual moves
• On the outside I’m facing the thing, but inside I’m rehearsing every line, mapping the exits, silently bracing

Practices that may help

1. Cope-ahead planning for high-stakes interactions
   Rehearse a difficult conversation in detail — mentally and verbally — before it happens.
   DBT Interpersonal Effectiveness: Getting What You Need Without Destroying the Relationship
2. Mentally simulate the planned behavior in its specific context
   Rehearse the action plan in your mind — visualizing the cue, the response, and the environment — to prime automatic execution.
   Action Planning
3. Practice letting unsolvable worries be
   For worries you cannot act on, build the skill of acknowledging and releasing rather than rehearsing.
   Worry Postponement, Made Practical
4. Include a brief process imagery step in your routine
   Mentally rehearse the execution process — not the outcome — as part of your preparation sequence.
   Pre-Performance Routines, Made Practical
5. Reduce covert mental safety behaviors
   Identify and fade the mental acts — rehearsing, planning, distraction — that serve the same function as overt avoidance.
   Safety Behavior Fading, Made Practical
6. Describe the difficult situation specifically and realistically
   Spell out the scenario you are anticipating — who, what, when — without minimizing or catastrophizing.
   Cope Ahead: DBT’s Method for Preparing for Difficult Situations
7. Create a pre-performance ritual that includes posture
   A consistent pre-performance ritual — including posture — reduces anxiety and improves performance more reliably than any single element.
   Power Posing Revisited
8. Practice routine disruption so it doesn’t derail performance
   Train yourself to reset and re-enter the routine after interruptions so disruption never catches you unprepared.
   Pre-Performance Routines, Made Practical
9. Mental rehearsal of outcomes
   Vividly rehearse the result and the process, with emotion, before you act.
   Tony Robbins’ Core Practices
10. Practice imagery at real-time speed
    Image performance at the actual speed of execution — not in slow motion.
    Mental Rehearsal and Imagery, Made Practical

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