The Persona Puzzle: Helping Clients Discover Their True Selves
When you meet a client for the first time, you don't actually meet the person, you meet the persona. You meet the person's mask, which he uses to represent himself
From Good to Great: 8 Ways to Sharpen Your Coaching Skills
How can you make sure that your coaching skills are at their absolute best, whether you coach as part of your job at an organization or as a freelancer?
Sculptor or Painter?
Psychoanalyst David Shapiro presents many revisions to the classic psychoanalytic framework in his 1999 book, Psychotherapy of Neurotic Character. In contrast to Freud, he places greater emphasis on the here
Cracking the Code: The Art of Truly Hearing the Answers
Sometimes, when you start a coaching session and begin asking the Well-Formed Outcome questions, something interesting occurs. Your client may start answering some of the questions that you haven't even
Bounce Back and Thrive: 10 Actionable Ideas to Reboot Your Coaching Practice
Most people and businesses have it wrong.
When the economy is slow or in a recession, they often cut back on learning. It's like they believe that personal development has nothing
Suppose You Could See You Mind, What Then?
Medical professionals can better treat patients when they can observe their brains in action and make decisions based on that information. They can now see clearly what's going wrong and
If Only You Could See Your Mind
The fact that we can now take pictures of our brains thanks to advances in science and medicine is mind-blowing. We can even capture images of a working brain. Amazing!
False Expectations About Coaching
What are your expectations when it comes to learning a new field and acquiring the skills necessary to become competent in that field? Is it realistic to aspire to become
When Your Client is Defensive
Yes, coaching clients can get defensive sometimes. The truth is that defensiveness is a natural human response, and it can even arise in coaching clients. It is important for a
Introducing Meta-Experiences
Experiences can occur at various levels of the mind. The most obvious, and even undeniable experiences, occur at the primary level of the empirical senses. Here you and I see,