Tag: Coaching
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How is coaching distinct from therapy?
Someone asks me this question every time I do a public talk about coaching. To continue the dialogue, I’m writing this piece. As will quickly be grasped, I cannot resolve the question once and for all. That’s partly because there’s not common ground as to what would constitute a satisfactory response and also because both…
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Do you really want to know what’s true?
At a recent session 3 of the PCC in Boston, I came up with three essential skills for all human beings: being able to deal with the inner critic staying present with and learning from anxiety being able to tell what’s true (not in a mathematical or scientific sense but rather knowing when something I…
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Integrating our life
Maybe like you, I take up different questions at different times in my life and begin to interpret what I experience, the people I meet, what I read or hear or encounter in terms of that theme. Lately I’ve been wondering about what it really means to integrate our life. Seems like an essential question…
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Why it works or doesn’t
These days I’m thinking that coaching has three parts. The first is the topic/issue/breakdown that the client brings us. These come in to us in varying degrees of size and clarity—from “my boss says I’m too pushy” to “I’m wondering what I should do with my life”—and inevitably shift, at least a bit, during the…
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Is the year ending or starting?
It’s a good thing that by cultural practice in the West this week marks the end of the year. Good because not many of us have a practice of stopping and reflecting and the year’s ending is a built-in opportunity to do that. If you are such a person please do slow down a bit…