WHY IT WORKS
Future pacing,
made visible.
If you coach, you know the move. Walk someone into the future they want, let them feel it, then bring them back with a step they can take today. Coaches and NLP practitioners call it future pacing.
Most people can’t hold that picture for long, and a goal set on a Saturday fades by Friday. This experience puts the whole move on a screen, for a whole room at once.
FUTURE PACINGSee it.
Each attendee meets a photoreal Future Self made from their own photo, a few years on and living the life they described. It’s hard to brush off a future you can look in the eye.
In the experience: The portrait, the group wall and the Reveal.
Research: People who saw a realistic image of their older self set aside more money for retirement (Hershfield et al., Journal of Marketing Research, 2011).
LANGUAGE & ANCHORSSay it.
Their own words become a dream story, magazine cover lines and the lyrics of a theme song. A song or an image they replay brings the feeling back long after the event.
In the experience: The dream story, the conversation, the cover and the song.
Research: Writing about your best possible future self raises optimism and mood (King, 2001; Peters et al., 2010).
COMMITMENTDo it.
Inspiration without a next step is just a nice afternoon. Everyone leaves with one small first move: what they’ll do, when, and where.
In the experience: The first move, the Compass and check-ins on days 7, 30, 60 and 90.
Research: Across 94 studies, deciding exactly when and where you’ll act made people far more likely to follow through (Gollwitzer & Sheeran, 2006).
UNLEASHED is a creative coaching exercise, not therapy or clinical treatment. Research notes are short summaries of the studies named.