Coaching practices for The Satir Model After a Setback

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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.
• When a setback hits I’m always blindsided, like I’d quietly assumed everything would just keep going fine
• I just hit a real failure
• I hit one failure and the whole goal suddenly feels impossibly far away
• When I’m upset it all comes out as "you did this, you always do that"

Practices that may help

1. 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.
2. Run the ABCDE disputation
   Map adversity → belief → consequence, then dispute the belief with evidence.
   Learned Optimism: Seligman’s ABCDE Method
3. 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
4. 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
5. 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
6. Correct blaming by adding accountability for self
   When blaming, add an honest account of your own contribution to the problem.
   The Satir Model
7. Recognize your own defensive stance under stress
   Identify which stance you default to when threatened — placating, blaming, computing, or distracting.
   The Satir Model
8. Maintain approach framing after a setback
   When you miss, ask "what does success look like from here?" rather than "how bad was the failure?"
   Approach vs Avoidance Goals
9. Update the map from real feedback
   When reality contradicts your model, revise the model — not your description of reality.
   The Map Is Not the Territory
10. Worst-case rehearsal (take the shock out)
    Calmly rehearse a likely setback in advance so it arrives expected, not as an ambush.
    Premeditatio Malorum, in Depth

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