Listen for longer than you think you need to. Listen with total attention and care. Listen without formulating answers or solutions. Listen until the other person has really said all they want to say. If you have a burning desire to interject, ask yourself the WAIT question (“Why Am I Talking?”) Be curious and...
“At the end of the day, the questions we ask of ourselves determine the type of people that we will become.” Leo Babauta
"Presence is the living embodiment of knowledge: the theories and practices believed to be essential to bring about change… are manifested, symbolized or implied in the presence of the consultant." Nevis
“When a therapist thinks that he can see signs of what is familiar to him, he can become blind to what is different and strange.” Patrick Casement, On Learning from the Patient
How We Avoided Our Own Traps While Writing ‘The Coach’s Casebook' About a year ago we set about writing a book together about the most common traits which we encounter when working with our coaching clients. We believe that all of these traits have the potential to be beneficial but also have the potential to...
