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Coaching, I have learned, is just a kind of inner tracking. And it often begins when people have lost the track. It is learning a different way of moving out of a lost or stuck place. In its simplest form, coaching begins by asking a person, “How does that make you feel?”

We imagine an encounter with a wise old person in a cave or on top of a mountain or in some other remote place. This wise being knows the answers we desperately need after our long journey. In fantasy we ask questions such as, Who am I that I do not yet know I am? or How am I standing in the way of my own growth? or What do I need to do to let go o

“Think of it,” Brian said, “as you are sitting around with all the parts of yourself. One part might be a chairman of the board, another part a small scared child, another part a huge yelling parent. There's a different level of empowerment when one sees that all the parts are integral to the whole.”