Standard in planning and coaching: what would we be seeing if this worked? It borrows solution-focus's most useful trick while staying honest by declaring itself a frame, not a fact.
As-If Frame
Temporarily adopting the perspective of a solved situation — "as if the outcome had already happened" — to generate information unavailable from the problem position.
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ShriViral Manek, Institute of NLP India · reviewed 30 Sept 2026