By Sue Knight

Thank you to everyone who attended the Coaching Fishbowl last month.  You were hugely respectful during and after the coaching session and I loved the subsequent debate. One quote that came to mind thinking about some of the questions is from Milton Erickson Psychotherapist who said, “Unique coaches make unique interventions with unique people in unique ways in unique contexts at unique times”.  He was actually referring to therapists but same principle. In other words resist the generalisation. I was asked for example, “Do I always….. (ask that questions/start that way/give that feedback) and the answer is, “absolutely not … there is is little if no ‘always’.”

 

I have had the privilege to learn from some great exemplars – Gene Early (Apply to self coaching), Frank Farrelly (Provocative Therapy/Coaching with Humour), David Grove (Clean Language/Questions) and of course John Grinder and Richard Bandler founders of NLP.  I have written about all that I have learnt from them in my book NLP at Work (3rd edition – which contains chapters on Clean Questions and Coaching with Humour for example).

 

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I wish you rewarding times with your personal coaching journeys..

 

Very sincerely

Sue Knight