ASAP - ASAP

· Identify and describe Phase Three distinctive features: purpose, goal, chief aim, role/responsibility.

· Briefly discuss how you will maintain rapport and DISC relational style alignment with care-seeker's current behavioral position (i.e., willing).

· Discuss the challenges you might face in Phase Three and identify/describe insights and/or techniques useful to maintaining forward progress.

· During the supportive feedback break, what portrait, definition(s), key thought(s), assessment insight, wise counsel, action steps, and biblical insights do you need to reflect upon as you assess progress (review Clinton & Hawkins, 2009, p. 10)?

In the event relapse, resistance, and/or sameness is encountered, identify and describe techniques beneficial to action plan's timely execution.

Faith for Phase Three.

Now that you have committed to collaboratively clarify and execute the action plan, how will you help the careseeker remain committed?

What’s most important in Phase Three? Build rapport and demonstrate fit, but use your skills: Skills like the supportive feedback technique, going back to the scaling questions to update where the careseeker is in the process, even reminding them of exceptions to the problem, helping them move forward, coping skills. Use your skills.

Make sure to maintain fit with the careseeker and remain alert to his/her behavioral position. As the careseeker moved into this phase willing, change is difficult, especially when encountering the sameness of life moments.

Anticipate some shift in position and be prepared to prepare the careseeker for those times of relapse or even when resistant or encountering resistance from those around them.

What tracking questions or core skills will you use to consolidate and support change? That is a very important question in this phase.

The big one though: how will you know when the careseeker is ready to move into Phase Four? Well, the idea of Phase Three is developing and maintaining forward progress. So, when you see that happening, secure and support responsible members, small group ministries. That is what Phase Four is about. You will find that information in the discussion of the final submission. But when there is forward progress, capture it, Consolidate it. Keep it moving, but stay close to the careseeker during Phase Three.