Module 14

HIGH-MILEAGE
QUESTIONS

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HIGH-MILEAGE
QUESTIONS
How can you help your clients explore what’s going on inside? How do you get
them to really dig deeper? Asking high-mileage questions is an effective way
to prompt your clients to get to the heart of the matter and empower them to
recognize that their solutions come from within.

High-mileage questions open the space for in-depth conversation around your
clients’ issues, values, and goals and encourage your clients to make their own
connections and draw their own conclusions.

Asking high-mileage questions gets easier with practice, and you’ll be inspired
when your clients open up with you in a whole new way.

You’ll find a selection of high-mileage questions on the following pages to practice

using in your Health Histories. Feel free to modify the questions to make them
your own and add more to the list as needed. Refer to this resource anytime you
need help finding the right questions to ask your potential clients!
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RELATING TO THE FUTURE

Use these types of questions to help your clients envision their ideal futures.
These questions will help them identify what they want their lives to look like
and encourage them to entertain new possibilities.

1| How will it be different once you have a solution?

2| What would be available to you if...?

3| What would be the very first sign that things are getting back on track?

4| What would happen if you lowered your expectations?

5| What would happen if you raised your expectations?

6| What would it feel like if…?

7| What would it look like if…?

8| What would it look like if you were able to get past your…?

9| What would make that fear decrease or disappear?

10| What would success look like?

11| What would the outcome be if…?

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RELATING TO THE PAST

Use these types of questions to help your clients reflect on the influential
people, places, and events in their lives. These questions will help them
connect to the past and recognize useful problem-solving strategies.

1| Has there ever been a time when you felt like…?

2| Has there ever been a time when you were able to…?

3| What have you realized about your priorities at this time in your life?

4| What has worked for you in the past?

5| What is different about the time when you enjoyed…?

6| What was different for you then?

7| What is your story around…?

8| What would it look like if you changed your story?

9| Who would you be without your story around…?

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RELATING TO THE PRESENT

Use these types of questions to help your clients become mentally,

emotionally, and physically aware of the present moment.

1| In this present moment, what emotional sensations can you identify?

2| In this present moment, what physical sensations can you identify?

3| What is the most pressing thing happening right now?

4| What is working well in your life right now?

5| In this present moment, what is happening?

6| Where do you feel stuck?

7| What is most comfortable about where you are now?

8| What are you grateful for in this moment?

9| How do you feel when you consider...?

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ACTION-ORIENTED

Use these types of questions to help your clients clarify the action steps
needed to reach their goals.

1| What are you committed to doing?

2| What do you think the next step should be?

3| What is one small step you could take this week that you know you could
do successfully?

4| What would it take?

5| What would you like to achieve in this session?

6| When do you plan to do this by?

7| Would you be willing to…every day this week?

8| On a scale of 1 to 10, how willing are you to commit to this? What would
it take to be a 10?

9| What would you need in order to move forward?

10| If you knew you had nothing to lose, how would you act and what would
you choose?
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RELATING TO GOALS/VALUES

Use these types of questions to help your clients recognize their personal
goals and values.

1| How does this…fit in with your goal?

2| How is your current situation meeting your value requirements?

3| How is your current situation not meeting your value requirements?

4| How are you stopping short of your goal?

5| What did you learn about yourself/your situation/your values as you

completed this exercise/goal?

6| How do you expect you’ll feel when you reach your goal?

7| What things, people, places make you feel the way you expect or want to
feel when you reach your goal?
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RELATING TO PEOPLE/PLACES/THINGS

Use these types of questions to help your clients identify how they are
influenced by the people, places, and things in their lives.

1| How do you feel different when you are in this place?

2| How do you feel different when you are with this person?

3| How does this relate to…?

4| How’s your love life?

5| What could you listen to that would inspire you?

6| What could you read that would inspire you?

7| What does it keep you tied to?

8| What would support look like?

9| Who do you know that will support you?

10| Who does it keep you tied to?

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SELF-COACHING

Use these types of questions to empower your clients to come up with their
own suggestions or solutions around a concern or goal.

1| If I were the client and you were the coach, what would you suggest?

2| If you did know the answer, what would it be?

3| What do you think you should do?

4| What would you tell a friend in the same situation?

COACH INVOLVEMENT

Use these types of questions to help your clients reach out to you for support.

1| How can I best support you?

2| May I tell you what I see happening?

3| May I tell you what I’m hearing?

4| May I tell you what I’m noticing?

5| Would you be willing to email me your progress?

6| May I hold you accountable to...?

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DIGGING DEEPER

Use these types of questions to help your clients explore an issue more deeply
and discover alternate ways of thinking about an issue.

1| And then what?

2| Can you say more about that?

3| How did you decide that?

4| How is this significant?

5| What do you mean by…?

6| What else could be true here?

7| What led you to that conclusion?

8| Which option do you prefer?

9| Why is this a problem?

10| What other options are available?

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MISCELLANEOUS

Use these open-ended questions to help your clients communicate

meaningfully during your sessions.

1| Could this be a symptom rather than a source?

2| Did anything surprise you when…?

3| How can you expand your life in that area?

4| How does this serve you?

5| How doesn’t this serve you?

6| Is this something you really want or something you think you should want?

7| Is this where you want to be putting your energy?

8| What could these feelings be trying to tell you?

9| What are you assuming about the situation?

10| What are you looking to create?

11| What can you control in the situation?

12| What can’t you control in the situation?

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13| How would your life improve if you made this change?

14| What could an alternate explanation to…be?

15| What do you enjoy about…?

16| What would it take to change it?

17| What does this…mean to you?

18| What evidence do you have for those beliefs?

19| What facts support this?

20| What is your truth?

21| What have you tried to do to solve this problem for yourself?

22| What is one thing you could do to energize yourself?

23| What is out of balance?

24| Where have you created greater balance?

25| What is the gift in this challenge?

26| Why do you think this is happening for you, and why now?

27| What is your intuition telling you?

28| What was your intention behind that action/choice/decision?

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29| What major fear will you be addressing if you…?

30| What makes this important to you?

31| What prevents you from…?

32| What’s missing for you?

33| What’s working for you?

34| What’s the best part about this for you?

35| What are the moments of choice in this situation?

36| Why do you believe that to be true?

37| What is your ideal outcome in this…?