Coaching practices for Seligman S Perma Model After a Setback

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

• I just hit a real failure
• I hit one failure and the whole goal suddenly feels impossibly far away
• When something goes wrong I spiral straight into the dark conclusion and the bad feeling, and I want an actual step-by-step way to slow that down and argue back with evidence instead of just sinking.
• The moment I hit a setback I take it as a verdict that I’m just not good enough and start pulling away to protect myself
• When a setback hits I’m always blindsided, like I’d quietly assumed everything would just keep going fine

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. Recover from setbacks without quitting the goal
   Build a routine for bouncing back so setbacks don’t end the pursuit.
   Grit: Passion and Perseverance, Honestly Assessed
3. Learned Optimism: Seligman’s ABCDE Method
   Learned optimism, from Martin Seligman’s research program, teaches you to identify and dispute the pessimistic explanations you generate automatically after setbacks — using his ABCDE model (Adversity, Belief, Consequence, Disputation, Energization). Clinical and observational research links shifting from pessimistic to flexible explanatory style to reduced depression risk and better persistence; effects are real but modest, and the goal is accuracy, not forced positivity.
4. Invoke the possible self during setbacks
   When you fail or stall, return to the hoped-for self — not to the outcome goal — as your re-orienting anchor.
   Possible Selves, Made Practical
5. Run the ABCDE disputation
   Map adversity → belief → consequence, then dispute the belief with evidence.
   Learned Optimism: Seligman’s ABCDE Method
6. Adopt a mastery goal orientation, not just a performance one
   Pursue goals to get better, not just to look good — especially for long-range work.
   Goal Setting Theory, Made Practical
7. Negative visualization (premeditatio malorum)
   Briefly imagine losing what you have, so you stop taking it for granted and brace for setbacks.
   Stoicism, as a Set of Practices
8. Reframe through cognitive reappraisal
   Change how you interpret a stressor — its meaning, scope, and permanence — to change its emotional impact.
   Building Resilience, Made Practical
9. Identify the three Ps in your explanation
   Check whether your explanation of a setback is permanent, pervasive, or personal — and how accurate each is.
   Learned Optimism: Seligman’s ABCDE Method
10. Run a structured mastery debrief after each performance
    Immediately after any significant attempt, extract what worked before the memory fades.
    Mastery Experiences

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