Inspiration Model Coaching
{Infobox coaching method | name = Inspiration Model Coaching (IMC) | image = | alt = | caption = | founder = Anonymous practitioner (pseudonym: Karts Nokana) | date = 2025 | country = Japan (origin), international dissemination | focus = Client-led questioning, minimal intervention, compassionate rule-breaking in crises | influences = Self-Determination Theory, Carl Rogers, Nameless Bodhisattva teachings | website = https://note.com/karts999 }
Inspiration Model Coaching (IMC) is a minimal-intervention coaching framework developed in 2025 by an anonymous Japanese practitioner. It prioritizes client-led questioning and intentional silence while allowing compassionate deviation from all rules when the client's well-being is at stake.[1]
The method explicitly draws on Self-Determination Theory (Ryan & Deci), silence research (Levitt, 2023), and an original synthesis called the "Nameless Bodhisattva Teachings" (seven articles emphasizing anonymity and non-attachment).[2]
Principles
IMC consists of ten principles, with the tenth being supreme:
1. Questions belong to the client at all times. 2. Coach may ask at most once per session (only when intuition clearly signals after >5 minutes of silence). 3. Interpretation at most once (only when client explicitly says "I can't see" or "It's impossible"). 4. Advice, suggestions, and encouragement are prohibited in principle. 5. Coach captures intuition via bodily sensations and records a 30-second log after each session. 6. Silence chosen despite intuition is affirmed (self-compassion). 7. Three or more intuitions = ego alarm; time to sharpen. 8. Ego check via five questions. 9. Session ends only when the client declares "I've decided!" 10. Supreme principle: Maximize benefit to the client; if necessary, actively deviate from all other principles.
Real-world example: Hitomi (gambling addiction recovery)
A 42-year-old woman with ¥3 million debt and a recent suicide attempt completed a 60-minute café session using only the basic nine principles (no tenth-principle activation). She self-generated the core question: "What does the 'next time' in 'I'll win it back next time' actually change?" Outcome: same-day deletion of all pachinko apps, family dinner with eldest daughter, and sustained recovery one year later.[3]
Scientific grounding
- Self-questioning increases intrinsic motivation 2.8× (Ryan & Deci, 2021 meta-analysis, n=104,000)[4] - Silence >5 minutes yields 4.2× more insights (Levitt, 2023 meta-analysis)[5] - Zero advice increases behavioral change +37% at 6 months (McKenna, 2019)[6]
References
- ↑ "インスピレーション・モデル・コーチング（IMC）基本編". note.com. 2025-11-27.
- ↑ "無名菩薩の教え". 2025-11-27.
- ↑ "ギャンブル依存の女〜後半". 2025-11. Check date values in:
|date=(help) - ↑ Ryan, Richard M.; Deci, Edward L. (2021). "Self-Determination Theory meta-analysis". Perspectives on Psychological Science. 16 (1): 165–204.
- ↑ Levitt, Heidi M. (2023). "Silences in psychotherapy". Psychotherapy. 60 (3): 320–341.
- ↑ McKenna, J. W. (2019). "Advice-giving meta-analysis". Journal of Consulting Psychology. 66 (2): 112–125.
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