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Episode 44Coaching demo50 min

Visual Coaching Demo with Christina Merkley

with Christina Merkley, Certified Coach, Visual Facilitator, and Founder of SHIFT-IT Coach, Inc.

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Show notes

A coaching podcast with Christina Merkley and Tobias Weghorn where Tobi steps into the client seat for a real coaching demo and you get to experience what visual coaching feels like on a live digital canvas. Christina guides a step-by-step process using her visual self-inquiry map, moving from the “mind and doer” into somatic signals (hello, tight lungs) and into parts work (IFS coaching) with an exile, protectors, and inner child healing. The session lands in a grounded future self visualization where Tobi meets his 55-year-old self, borrows some calm perspective, and leaves with a simple way to reconnect anytime. If you want to learn coaching through an honest, in-the-moment demo, this episode shows how visuals can make inner work more tangible.


Key Learnings:

  • Run a simple coaching demo check-in: start with the “mind/doer,” name the protector, and explicitly invite “being” as a job the doer can do (presence before problem-solving).
  • When a client is logically “fine” but the body isn’t, pivot into visual coaching + somatic inquiry: locate the sensation (e.g., lungs), greet it, and notice what naturally shifts before interpreting.
  • Use parts work (IFS coaching) + future self visualization in one flow: meet the inner child, offer adult ally support (“I’ll always be with you”), then ask the future self for next-step guidance and a memorable anchor to revisit it.

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Episode Chapters:

00:00 Meeting The Younger Self (Inner Child Healing)

01:00 Why This Coaching Demo Blurs Coaching vs. Therapy

02:00 Visual Self-Inquiry Map: How The Process Works

05:00 Parts Work (IFS Coaching): Protectors, Managers, And The Mind-Doer

10:00 From Logic To Body: Tight Lungs And Somatic Clues

13:00 Presence Creates Space: “Give The Doer The Job Of Being”

17:00 Finding The Origin Story: Belonging, The Village, And The Exile

23:00 Reparenting Moment: Hugging The 5-Year-Old

27:00 Future Self Visualization: Meeting The 55-Year-Old On The Couch

37:00 Making It Tangible: Why Visual Coaching “Completes The Puzzle”

Transcript

Full transcript, edited for readability. Every timestamp jumps the video to that moment.

Christina Merkley: Now, bringing your consciousness back to your now adult self who's in front of him. You're his future self. What are your natural instincts? You're a father, are you not? So in a way, you're going to be a father to your younger self. What are your instincts, just like you would have for your own child? Here's this little one at five who's feeling pushed aside, hurt and lonely. He's having some big emotions. What are your natural instincts? Tobi: I pick him up, I give him a hug. Christina Merkley: Yay, please. So, picking up that little five-year-old and giving him a hug.

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