The first step in balance coaching is to identify the coachee’s perspective and then expand the perspectives that are available. It is much harder work to get coachees into action from a stalled or dead-end perspective compared to a perspective that has zoom and flow in it. As humans, we tend to limit what is possible by what we believe is true,

With questions that imply a correct or a purely factual answer, we search our inner files for the response that fits: the right answer. With curiosity, we have the experience of exploring, uncovering, digging around, considering, reflecting. This is the learning that leads to sustainable change and growth.

Coach and coachee work together to clarify the goals as well as develop strategies for achieving them. Just as important to achieving results is putting new practices in place.

In simplest terms, the design of the alliance looks at questions such as What are the conditions that need to be in place for the two of us to work together effectively? What are the obstacles or potential obstacles? What fundamental questions need to be answered in order to get the most out of this process? And as the coaching continues, there

Level II listening is about the focus of the awareness.

In your eagerness to help coachees move forward, you, as coach, may be tempted to break the problems down into bite-sized bits and brainstorm solutions, to get results quickly and move past all that sluggishness or spinning wildly. Instead, balance coaching starts with the way coachees look at the situation; the need for different action is not the

Coachees know when the coach is asking a question with a “correct” answer in mind. They sense that they have two choices: either resist giving that answer or try to discern the answer the coach is looking for. When the question is asked out of curiosity, they will sense this, too. They will know they are being asked to find their own answers from

Balance coaching is designed to restore flow, to get coachees into action on today’s issues in a way that brings them back into alignment and back in control of their own lives.

Openness and Spaciousness