Coaching practices for Satir Blaming Stance Correction

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• When I’m upset it all comes out as "you did this, you always do that"
• Every time a conversation gets tense I snap into the same reaction without choosing it
• I dread correcting someone because it always seems to come out as an attack on who they are, and they get defensive and shut down
• When I’m upset I go straight for who they are
• I tell people what they did wrong but they don’t see why it actually matters, so nothing changes

Practices that may help

1. Correct blaming by adding accountability for self
   When blaming, add an honest account of your own contribution to the problem.
   The Satir Model
2. The Satir Model
   Virginia Satir’s model identifies four defensive communication stances people adopt under stress — Placating, Blaming, Computing, and Distracting — each driven by low self-worth. The fifth stance, Congruent communication, aligns what you feel, what you say, and your regard for yourself and the other person simultaneously. Satir used the model clinically with families and couples; the goal is not to eliminate the stances but to recognize them and choose congruence.
3. Recognize your own defensive stance under stress
   Identify which stance you default to when threatened — placating, blaming, computing, or distracting.
   The Satir Model
4. One-minute reprimands: immediate, specific, behavior-not-person
   Effective correction is fast, focuses on the specific behavior, and ends with reaffirmation of the person’s value.
   The One Minute Manager: Three Practices That Still Work
5. Complain about the specific situation, not the person’s character
   Target the behavior or situation, never the person’s character or worth.
   The Soft Startup: How You Begin a Difficult Conversation Determines How It Ends
6. Name the actual impact on you or the team
   Say what effect the behavior had — on you, on others, on the work.
   The SBI Feedback Model, Made Practical
7. Apply the razor to yourself
   Extend to your own past actions the same charitable interpretation you give others.
   Hanlon's Razor: Never Attribute to Malice What Stupidity Can Explain
8. Replace criticism with a specific complaint plus a need
   A complaint addresses a behavior; criticism attacks character -- only one is survivable.
   The Four Horsemen: Gottman's Warning Signs of Relationship Breakdown
9. Review without self-condemnation — distinguish judgment from condemnation
   Name what you did wrong precisely, without story or self-attack — then close it.
   The Pythagorean Evening Review
10. Negative assertion (own your mistakes calmly)
    Acknowledge a real fault plainly, without crumbling into excessive apology or shame.
    Assertiveness Training, Made Practical

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