Full Description
This illuminating guide to the core skills and techniques of the relational approach to coaching brings the intersubjective, collaborative relationship between coach and client into focus. The authors use key case examples from a variety of settings to illustrate the skills needed at different stages of the coaching relationship, including chapters on:
· Establishing the Working Alliance
· Inquiring Collaboratively
· Use of Self
· The Presenting Past
· Enactments, Games, Ruptures and Repairs
· Endings in Coaching
Filled with a variety of exercises and reflective questions, this will be an invaluable resource for trainee coaches or those already practicing wishing to refine their skills.
Contents
What is Relational Coaching?
Establishing the Working Alliance: Contacting and Contracting
Inquiring Collaboratively
Use of Self
The Presenting Past
Enactments, Games, Ruptures and Repairs
Experiment and change
Endings in Coaching
Relationship and Relating as a Moral Imperative
