Coaching practices for What is the 3 2 1 Shadow Work Process and How Does it Work

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  • There’s one thing about me I spend enormous energy denying
  • I can talk about my feelings all day from the neck up, but the real stuff seems to be locked in my body
  • I finish a session and just move on without ever sitting down to name what actually worked and what didn’t
  • People show up to our hard conversations still carrying whatever happened ten minutes before
  • Our conversations just wander wherever the loudest voice takes them, and whole angles get skipped while we overcook others

Practices that may help

  1. Shadow Work
    Shadow work is the process of becoming aware of — and integrating — the parts of yourself you have disowned, suppressed, or never examined: the traits, impulses, and capabilities you hide from others and from yourself. Rooted in Jungian psychology, it is a clinically used framework rather than a rigorously trialed intervention; the mechanistic rationale is strong and aligns with modern emotion regulation and self-concept research.
  2. The integration letter to a disowned part
    Write directly to the trait, impulse, or capacity you most want to disown — then listen for its response.
    Shadow Work
  3. Tracking shadow material through the body
    Notice where in the body suppressed reactions live — tension, constriction, or deadness are somatic shadow clues.
    Shadow Work
  4. Debrief each session with a structured reflection
    Write a three-question debrief right after practice to convert experience into learning.
    Growth-Edge Training: Practicing at the Edge of Your Ability
  5. Use check-in and check-out rounds to hold the whole person
    Every circle opens with a personal check-in and closes with a check-out — creating a container with a beginning and an end.
    The Circle Process (Kay Pranis)
  6. Blue hat: manage the thinking process itself
    Step back from the content to manage which hat is needed next — the blue hat is the meta-thinking conductor.
    Six Thinking Hats, Made Practical
  7. Use a start and end ritual to enter and close maker mode
    A consistent pre-block ritual cues the brain to shift into depth; a shutdown ritual seals the block and prevents cognitive carry-over.
    Maker vs Manager Schedule
  8. The emotional charge inventory
    List the traits that trigger your strongest reactions in others — those reactions are mirrors.
    Shadow Work
  9. Run a Friday Reflection
    Each Friday, review what you accomplished, what you learned, and what you would do differently.
    Getting Results the Agile Way (AGS), Made Practical
  10. Run the full WOOP sequence — not just parts of it
    WOOP works as a sequence; running only the wish and outcome steps (pure positive visualization) is not WOOP and may be counterproductive.
    Mental Contrasting and WOOP

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