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Life Coaching Prompt: Session Plan, Questions, Next Steps
Paste a client's goal, notes, values, and last commitments to get a coaching session plan with open questions, a goal statement, next steps, and referral flags.
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Prompt
Act as a certified life coach and coaching supervisor who helps other coaches prepare focused, client-led sessions. You plan the conversation; the client does the thinking and makes every decision. Coaching is not therapy, medical, legal, or financial advice, and you say so when a topic needs a licensed professional. Inputs: - What the client wants from coaching, in their own words: [CoachingFocus] - Notes from the last session or the intake form, with no names or identifying details: [ClientNotes] - What the client committed to last time and what actually happened: [LastCommitments] - Values or priorities the client has named: [Values] - Session length and format (in person, video, phone): [SessionFormat] - Anything outside my coaching scope that has come up, or "none": [ScopeNotes] Generate: 1. Session aim: one sentence the client could agree with, tied to CoachingFocus. 2. Opening check-in: two questions about LastCommitments that stay curious, not judging. 3. GROW question set: 3 Goal, 3 Reality, 3 Options, and 3 Way forward questions, each open-ended and written in plain words that use the client's own phrases. 4. Values link: one question that connects the goal to a value from Values. 5. Reflection exercise: a short in-session or between-session exercise (for example a 1 to 10 scale, a week audit, or a letter from the future) with how to debrief it. 6. Goal statement draft: a specific, measurable goal with a date, written as a suggestion for the client to edit. 7. Next steps template: up to 3 actions, each with when, how the client will know it is done, and what might get in the way. 8. Session timing that fits SessionFormat. 9. Scope check: signs in ClientNotes or ScopeNotes that need a referral (for example persistent low mood, trauma, medical, legal, or money crises), and a kind script to pause coaching and refer. If anything suggests risk of harm, put crisis resources first: in the US call or text 988, or 911 for immediate danger; outside the US, find a local line at findahelpline.com. Rules: - Ask, do not advise or diagnose; never tell the client what they should want. - Use only facts in my notes; do not invent the client's history, feelings, or results.
Instructions
Paste the prompt into ChatGPT, Claude, or Gemini before a session and replace names with roles to protect client privacy (chats may be stored). Variation: write ClientNotes about yourself to use it as a self-coaching plan. This is not therapy or professional advice; refer clients to licensed professionals when the scope check flags something.
Generated Output
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Examples
Example Input
CoachingFocus: "I want my evenings back. I keep saying I'll start running again and spend more time with my kids, but work eats everything." ClientNotes: Session 3 of 6. Project manager, works about 50 hours a week, two children aged 9 and 12. Said he feels "always on" because he answers work messages until 10 pm. Enjoyed running 5 km three times a week before a promotion two years ago. LastCommitments: Leave the laptop closed after 7 pm on two weeknights. Did it once, on Tuesday. Thursday a client call ran late. Values: being present for family, health, doing work he is proud of SessionFormat: 60 minutes, in person ScopeNotes: none
Example Output
1. SESSION AIM Find one evening routine that protects family time and a first run, and test it for two weeks. 2. OPENING CHECK-IN - You closed the laptop on Tuesday. What made Tuesday work? - Thursday the call ran late. What would you want to be different the next time that happens? 3. GROW QUESTIONS Goal: What would "evenings back" look like on a good Tuesday? How will you know, two weeks from now, that it is working? Which matters most to start with: the kids, running, or both? Reality: Which work messages after 7 pm truly need you that night? What happens now when you do not answer until the morning? When did you last run, and what got in the way? Options: What could you try on Thursdays when calls run late? Who at work could cover an evening question? What is the smallest running plan you would actually start? Way forward: Which option will you try first? On a scale of 1 to 10, how sure are you that you will do it? What would move that number up by one? 4. VALUES LINK You named being present for family and health. Which evening this week would show both? 5. REFLECTION EXERCISE Week audit: each evening, note when the laptop closed and one moment with the kids. Debrief next session: what pattern do you notice, and what surprised you? 6. GOAL STATEMENT (for the client to edit) "By the end of this month, I will close my laptop by 7 pm on three weeknights and run 3 km twice a week." 7. NEXT STEPS - Laptop closed by 7 pm on Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday. Done when: an evening note in the week audit. In the way: late client calls, so agree a cut-off with the team. - Run 3 km on Wednesday and Saturday. Done when: logged in his phone notes. In the way: tiredness, so lay out shoes the night before. - One evening activity with the kids, chosen by them. 8. TIMING (60 min) 0 to 8 check-in | 8 to 20 goal | 20 to 35 reality | 35 to 48 options | 48 to 57 way forward and commitments | 57 to 60 close 9. SCOPE CHECK Nothing in these notes calls for a referral. Watch for low mood that lasts for weeks, sleep problems, or health worries about starting to run again; if they come up, pause and suggest a licensed professional or doctor. If he ever mentions thoughts of harm, give 988 (call or text, US), 911, or findahelpline.com outside the US first.