The Coach’s Path

Description

There is a conversation you have had, perhaps more than once, that you have not yet found the right name for. Someone arrived carrying a problem they could not resolve alone, and you offered them not an answer but a quality of attention — a question, a pause, a way of listening that allowed them to hear themselves. Afterwards, they said they did not know how you had done it.

That conversation is the beginning of the coaching path.

This book addresses what it actually takes to develop as a coach over a career: finding your voice, building the container of trust that genuine coaching requires, learning to ask the question that matters rather than the question that demonstrates competence, and sustaining the honest self-examination that this work demands of its practitioners.

Drawing on the wisdom of Confucius, Bashō and Zhuangzi, The Coach’s Path is a book for the coach who is ready to move beyond technique and into the deeper question of what it means to practice this work well.

Each chapter closes with ten reflective questions, a practical exercise, and a summary connecting the chapter’s ideas to the path ahead.

Part of The Path series, published by Greenfields Press.

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