Co-Active Coaching

The value of work would change because it would no longer be about what job you have but about the difference you make and the values you honor in the work you do.

Coaching can absolutely have a therapeutic effect, but it is not therapy.

Distinctions for Consulting, Coaching, and Mentoring

We might think of the three principles as three different sets of tools. When coach and coachee explore values, a future vision, or the self-sabotage that can keep coachees from achieving their vision, the coach is pulling from the fulfillment toolkit. When the coach helps coachees look at an issue from a variety of different viewpoints or consider

Nor is it up to the coach to try to heal it or stop it—another typical response. Just explore it and acknowledge it: “That’s a powerful feeling. There’s some pain in there; I can tell.”

Coaches are sometimes alarmed and confused by this. They think that because the coachee is reacting with feeling, the coaching relationship has turned into therapy. But emotions and therapy are not the same. Emotions are just emotions. When people are passionate, even angry, about a perceived injustice, it doesn’t mean that they are mentally unstab

Emotion is a legitimate form of expression, like words, music, and dance.

The flow in process coaching has the following steps: (1) the coach senses the turbulence under the surface and names it, (2) the coach explores it, (3) the coachee experiences it, (4) a shift happens, (5) energy opens up, (6) the coachee has access to new resources, and (7) movement happens.

the shortest distance between here and there is not always a straight line. Sometimes it is a curved line, as the U-shaped process pathway shows (see figure 6).