There is structure beneath the surface. There are recognisable doors. Once you know how to turn the key, the energy shifts and the resistance goes down. 

If you've ever finished a session wondering whether you actually helped your client make progress, I understand that feeling completely.

I struggled for years following the 3-step framework: identify the problem, help the client find their solution, agree on the action steps. It seemed productive because clients often believe that's how change works. But if it were that simple, no one would ever need a coach, just some time and a notebook.

So how to work through the resistance and change the consciousness the problem was created in? Read on.

Tünde Horvath has spent 25 years helping clients turn their resistances to resources.

I'm Tünde Horvath, Master Certified Coach with more than 7,000 coaching hours. I bring together three bodies of wisdom — Gestalt psychology, Taoist philosophy, and mythological storytelling — to guide leaders and coaches through in-between phases in their work. I created The Elemental Cycle, which combines the Gestalt Cycle of Experience with the Five Elements of the Tao. This framework helps me orient myself in the most chaotic coaching conversations,

I've spent 20 years training coaches from beginner to master level. I've been teaching these elemental skills and also helped coaches overcome their own unconscious resistance in the space between goal setting and action planning.