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Watch How Coaching Works: A short (3:47 minute) video on You Tube
We released a movie titled “How Coaching Works” as a way to explain coaching, via YouTube, using an animated cartoon. This blog series aims to share the psychological underpinnings of the coach approach demonstrated in the carton and utilized by master coaches.
One key to masterful coaching is the idea of being “in flow.” This happens in two ways in the coaching relationship:
1) Flow in the relationship between the coach and the client; a dance-like conversation in which both parties are fully engaged and stretched and neither is controlling the dance.
2) Flow in the relationship between the client and the client’s wellness goals; in other words, finding goals which match their level of readiness and confidence while stretching their skills.
I recently wrote an article about the “Flow to Health and Happiness“ for Idea Fitness Journal. Check it out and let me know what you think.
Masterful coaches share these and many other pathways to flow to enhance the life experience of their clients. Stay tuned for another introduction to the tools and philosophies of coaching, which you can apply in your own life today.
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I’ve not seen an attempt like your animated cartoon at YouTube to describe coaching. What I liked about it is the metaphor of the coach with a tool box at the right time. Thanks for helping others with this.
This is exactly my experience in coaching! I’m absolutely in FLOW and after a day of coaching I’m more energized than before!
I like it. When we try to describe the real core of coaching, everyone has a little different vision. This is a great visual to show that core. It goes well beyond what words can describe. I posted a link to it on another coaching blog. http://dswacoachingcenter.com/2010/02/coaching-in-action/
Csikszentmihalyi and Flow Theory:
Quick version:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IkxZOVq6EKs
Long version:
http://www.amazon.com/Flow-Psychology-Optimal-Experience-P-S/dp/0061339202/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1267506559&sr=8-1-spell
Enjoy
Kerryn Griffiths
ReciproCoach >>> Where coaches go for coaching
http://www.ReciproCoach.com
Works for me! Love the stages illustrated and the fact that the coach does very little of the actual ‘work’! I’m about to start delivering coaching and mentoring qualifications and will be recommending delegates watch this at the beginning of the programme! Must have taken a while to design and develop – well done!
Thanks Meg. What I liked is the simplicity of the stick figures which bring the metaphors and images of coaching to light. Collaboration and partnering is the basis of coaching. We do not need to try and sell coaching as anything more or complicated. By enabling our clients to leap over barriers, at first unrecognizable and then with our profound belief in their potential, they find their roads to success and happiness. As coaches, I am sure we are still in awe when we see what I refer to as POP – the eye-opening revelation of potential, opportunities and purpose – during our coaching sessions.
Coaching is not complicated yet it is difficult to truly be a coach. Understanding the simplicity of what we do renders it priceless. Feeling comfortable with our supportive, not directive role is not always simple.
Currently, our profession suffers a serious endemic problem. The main problem of our profession is not the ignorance that exists in the market, are not those clients who come to us not knowing what is coaching, are not the “outsiders” who call themselves coaches, or schools that mix Coaching with NLP, Enneagram, Constellations, or ay other disciplines without any distinction. No, all this examples are, in any case, mere symptoms of a deeper problem. We are the main problem. Is within us and is called “methodological inconsistency”.
Today, virtually all coaches have come to an agreement about what is coaching. All we can assume, with nuances often irrelevant, coaching definitions such as the ICF or other associations and institutions in the world of coaching. However, this apparent consensus is dangerous, since we have not yet agreed on how to do what we say we do. Almost the 90% of description of coaching´s definition did not include methodological aspects, or show preference for mixing it with other methodologies like consulting, advisory, training, positive psychology, and others.
The Meg & Wellcoaches movie titled “How Coaching Works” have the same methodological problem. (I wrote about this, in spanish, in this post called “The problem isn´t what we do but how we do it” -http://coachingnodirectivo.com/2009/12/11/el-problema-no-es-lo-que-hacemos-sino-como-lo-hacemos )
To many coaches will be imperceptible, and even irrelevant, the fact that the coach has a toolbox through which guides the client, allowing even to “save the protagonist´s life” (coachee) with a net that cushions his dangerous fall from the ladder.
However, regardless of whether the stages or phases described in the video are essentially correct (meeting to explain the problem or objective; clarification of what is to be achieved through a vision exercise; determination of the action plan and the journey itself that would lead to “success”) the way to proceed of this “coach” is methodologically inconsistent and inefficient in coaching profession. This is the coaching definition of Wellcoaches that explains how the coach of the movie work:
“Coaches provide instruction and mentoring to their clients, and help them set goals, define an action plan, and navigate the path until they reach their goals. Coaches facilitate learning and help clients put the learning into action” http://www.wellcoach.com/index.cfm?t=42222c233f55303f2b493d2b593250403f3e3c4c3035515629364452595c38524f40595a2147242c495d583d38533020200a
If the essence of coaching methodology is instruction and mentoring, then in methodology terms our profession does not differ from advice or training. There is something wrong within us, and the issue is not trivial at all.
At another time I delve on this methodological problem and will explain the historical, theoretical and ethical roots of “Non Directive Coaching” as the coherent and efficient approach of coaching, as well as differences with any type of coaching that ignores the importance of metholodogy issue itself becoming the process of coaching, by contrast, inconsistent and deficient.
Ravier, L.
Mostly coach training programs teach you the theory and even the skill but leave you hanging when it comes to business development. Make sure your coach training program offers some coach business building and marketing skills too.
How true! (related to the last point)
That’s why I started ReciproCoach – so that coaches were no longer left “hanging”.
As a ReciproCoach you get the best support ever – having your own coach and you can use your coach to support you in creating your own coaching business.
Kerryn Griffiths
ReciproCoach >>> Reciprocal coaching, mentoring and supervision
http://www.ReciproCoach.com