The Six Seconds Learning Philosophy that guides our programs, professional conduct, and is core to our methodology includes six principles. Please review this page which explains the principles as Standards and our Ethical Guidelines for being part of the Six Seconds global community.

Coach as Changemaker

What creates optimal learning for our clients?

Six Seconds is committed to creating great learning based on current research about the brain and how change occurs.  In our coaching programs, we utilize an approach informed by neuroscience and Constructivist learning theory.  We capture this in six principles to form a learning philosophy, and in the Change MAP, an approach to learning as a change process.

Learning Philosophy

Wisdom Lives Within

Our job as Coach is to create an environment/experience where people can find their own answers. Self-reflection is key!

Action: Use LAC- Listen, Ask and Connect. Listen for the underlying issues. Ask powerful questions that expand awareness and provoke new learning. Connect with the client and connect the “dots” as you develop the map moving forward with wisdom and insight. Provide time and space for reflection. 

No Way is The Way

People learn in a variety of ways, and we need to coach to many learning styles. We also need to adapt and flex to effectively work with the complexities of our clients.

Action: Engage many different learning styles so your client can learn in their own best ways. In each conclusion, clients are encouraged to do their own synthesis and craft their own authentic next steps with your support in being the “Guide on the Side.”

The Process is the Content

Learning comes from experiencing and reflecting — doing, thinking, and feeling. As Coach, our job is to model and to use our own emotional intelligence so others can develop theirs.

Action: Use an experiential approach with many opportunities for discovery — as well as powerful coaching theories. “Self as Coach” encourages the coach to model their emotional intelligence to further support this concept.

1,2,3 PASTA!

This concept encourages clients to move from awareness and into action. We need to support and guide our clients to put new awareness into action.

Action: Foster the feelings of anticipation, excitement and joy to motivate action. Encourage clients to identify how to put ideas into motion by designing actions, setting goals and creating accountability.

Fish Don’t Talk About Water

It takes a moderate level of dissonance to learn and to gain new perspectives. Our job as Coach is to make it safe enough for people to go beyond comfort and conformity and to gently encourage to explore alternative ideas and solutions. Your affect will influence this greatly as this establishes trust and intimacy with the client.

Action: Utilizing powerful questions that new awareness may encourage the client to look at situations in new ways. Take the risk (and get out of your own patterns if needed) to ask a hard question, to challenge assumptions.

Emotions Drive People

Emotions are valuable signals that help us survive and thrive.  When we learn how to use them, emotions help us make more effective decisions, connect with others, find and follow purpose — and lead a more whole-hearted life.

Action: Connect to your own emotions and those of your client. Consider emotional consequences in decision-making and performance. Consider how you want your client to feel, and facilitate that through your own emotions. TFA - Thoughts, Feelings and Action - create a dynamic awareness to create change.