Coaching practices for What Went Well Practice

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

• I finish a session and just move on without ever sitting down to name what actually worked and what didn’t
• It went fine, and now a voice says all that worry was a waste and I could ease off next time
• In the moment my practice goes smooth and I walk away feeling like I’ve got it nailed
• When I practice I’m just kind of doing it again and hoping it’s better, because I don’t actually have a clear picture in my head of what great is supposed to look like
• It went well so I assumed I did everything right and moved on

Practices that may help

1. 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
2. Debrief after performance without letting relief collapse the strategy
   After a successful performance, acknowledge the outcome honestly without abandoning the preparation habit that produced it.
   Defensive Pessimism, Made Practical
3. Stop judging learning by today’s performance
   How well you do during practice is a bad predictor of how much you will keep.
   Desirable Difficulties: When Harder Means Better Learning
4. Build sharper mental representations
   Develop a detailed internal model of what excellent performance looks like.
   Deliberate Practice, Not Just Practice
5. Debrief against process goals, not just the outcome
   After performance, evaluate whether you executed your process goals before evaluating the result.
   Process vs. Outcome Goals in Sport and Performance
6. Reframe feedback from outcome to process
   After any outcome — good or bad — ask "what did I do well?" before "how did it go?"
   The Confidence–Competence Loop
7. Use public commitment to close the action gap
   Announce a specific next skill-building action to someone who will follow up.
   The Confidence–Competence Loop
8. Cope-ahead planning for high-stakes interactions
   Rehearse a difficult conversation in detail — mentally and verbally — before it happens.
   DBT Interpersonal Effectiveness: Getting What You Need Without Destroying the Relationship
9. Run a structured mastery debrief after each performance
   Immediately after any significant attempt, extract what worked before the memory fades.
   Mastery Experiences
10. Rehearse the full scenario in vivid mental imagery
    Walk through the difficult situation in your mind — including the hard moments — and watch yourself cope.
    Cope Ahead: DBT’s Method for Preparing for Difficult Situations

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