Coaching practices for Seligman S Perma Model During a Big Change

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  • 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.
  • I want to genuinely change something fundamental about how I am, but I don’t know what’s actually movable and what’s just baked in for life
  • I’ve held this change for a while and feel good about it overall, but there are specific moments
  • Something about my life feels off and I genuinely can’t name what
  • My team is looking to me to read how bad things really are, and I’m stuck

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. 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.
  3. Run the ABCDE disputation
    Map adversity → belief → consequence, then dispute the belief with evidence.
    Learned Optimism: Seligman’s ABCDE Method
  4. Understanding trait change — what shifts and what does not
    Big Five traits are relatively stable in rank order but do change in absolute level — especially with deliberate practice and major life transitions.
    The Big Five Personality Model
  5. Track your temptation-to-confidence ratio
    Confidence in your ability to resist temptation must outpace the pull of the old behavior.
    The Transtheoretical Model of Change, Made Practical
  6. 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
  7. Apply the Stockdale Paradox to teams and leadership
    As a leader or team member under pressure, model the simultaneous holding of faith and brutal facts — it is contagious in both directions.
    The Stockdale Paradox, Made Practical
  8. Borrow an identity temporarily by asking "what would [person] do?"
    Temporarily adopting a role model’s identity in a specific context lowers the friction of acting as they would.
    Identity Priming, Made Practical
  9. Audit your life against PERMA
    Check well-being across all five pillars — emotion, engagement, relationships, meaning, accomplishment.
    Positive Psychology, Made Practical
  10. 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

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