Self-Authoring Thinking: 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 Self-Authoring Thinking, these are the strongest matches in the current practice library.
About 2 minutes
Try it here: test one belief about yourself
Write down one belief you hold about yourself, then the evidence you have for and against it.
Write one belief you hold about yourself, and what supports it.
Practices that may help
- Self-Authorship: Moving From the Socialized to the Self-Authored Mind
Self-authorship, from Robert Kegan’s adult-development theory, is the capacity to generate your own internal standard for decisions rather than being defined by others’ expectations. It marks the shift from the "socialized mind" (made up by your environment) to the "self-authored mind" (author of your own values). It is a developmental theory describing how grown adults keep growing, not a quick technique. - Write your own internal standard
Articulate the values and criteria you’ll use to judge your own choices, independent of approval.
Self-Authorship: Moving From the Socialized to the Self-Authored Mind - Apply Socratic questioning to your own thinking (not just others’)
Use the same question types on your own beliefs that you would use to probe someone else’s.
Socratic Questioning - Write about yourself using your own name
Replace "I" with your first name when writing about difficult situations to gain analytical distance from them.
Self-Distancing Journaling - Shift identity from self-concept to awareness itself
Experiment with "I am the aware space" rather than "I am my thoughts and feelings."
Non-Dual Awareness, Made Practical - Make the subject-object move
Turn something that has you ("I am anxious") into something you have and can examine ("I notice anxiety in me").
Self-Authorship: Moving From the Socialized to the Self-Authored Mind - Journal as the person you are becoming, not the person you have been
Writing from your desired identity’s perspective, even tentatively, strengthens its psychological availability.
Identity Priming, Made Practical - Hold conflicting perspectives without collapsing
When two people you respect disagree, hold both views as data instead of needing one to be simply right.
Self-Authorship: Moving From the Socialized to the Self-Authored Mind - Use self-directed speech to regulate problem-solving
Talk yourself through a hard task aloud; private speech is an internalized coaching voice.
Zone of Proximal Development: Learning at Your Real Edge - Ask what a specific other person would do
Step into a named other’s perspective to access approaches you would not generate as yourself.
Oblique Strategies, Made Practical
Does this sound like the set of challenges you might be facing?
- When demands pull me in different directions I just bend toward whichever voice is loudest, because I’ve never actually pinned down my own criteria
- I’m good at picking apart everyone else’s reasoning, but when it’s my own belief I never run the same questions on it
- When I sit down to write about what’s eating at me, the "I, I, I" just pulls me deeper into the feeling instead of clearing it
- My harsh self-critical thoughts land like verdicts on who I fundamentally am, and they devastate me because I take them as the truth about my whole self
- When a feeling grabs me I become it
Related concerns
- Self Authoring Mind
Self-authorship, from Robert Kegan’s adult-development theory, is the capacity to generate your own internal standard for decisions rather than being defined by others’ expectations. It marks the shift from the "socialized mind" (made up by your environment) to the "self-authored mind" (author of your own values). It is a developmental theory describing how grown adults keep growing, not a quick technique.
- Self Authorship Moving From The Socialized To The Self Authored Mind At Work
Self-authorship, from Robert Kegan’s adult-development theory, is the capacity to generate your own internal standard for decisions rather than being defined by others’ expectations. It marks the shift from the "socialized mind" (made up by your environment) to the "self-authored mind" (author of your own values). It is a developmental theory describing how grown adults keep growing, not a quick technique.
- Self Authorship Moving From The Socialized To The Self Authored Mind For My Teenager
Self-authorship, from Robert Kegan’s adult-development theory, is the capacity to generate your own internal standard for decisions rather than being defined by others’ expectations. It marks the shift from the "socialized mind" (made up by your environment) to the "self-authored mind" (author of your own values). It is a developmental theory describing how grown adults keep growing, not a quick technique.
- Self Authorship Moving From The Socialized To The Self Authored Mind With My Partner
Self-authorship, from Robert Kegan’s adult-development theory, is the capacity to generate your own internal standard for decisions rather than being defined by others’ expectations. It marks the shift from the "socialized mind" (made up by your environment) to the "self-authored mind" (author of your own values). It is a developmental theory describing how grown adults keep growing, not a quick technique.
- Self Authorship Moving From The Socialized To The Self Authored Mind With My Team
Self-authorship, from Robert Kegan’s adult-development theory, is the capacity to generate your own internal standard for decisions rather than being defined by others’ expectations. It marks the shift from the "socialized mind" (made up by your environment) to the "self-authored mind" (author of your own values). It is a developmental theory describing how grown adults keep growing, not a quick technique.
- Socialized Mind Self Authoring
Self-authorship, from Robert Kegan’s adult-development theory, is the capacity to generate your own internal standard for decisions rather than being defined by others’ expectations. It marks the shift from the "socialized mind" (made up by your environment) to the "self-authored mind" (author of your own values). It is a developmental theory describing how grown adults keep growing, not a quick technique.
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