Session Slides from the Agile Coaching Exchange (ACE) 30th March 2016

1. HELLO
ICF MCC Coach and MD of Barefoot Coaching Ltd.
I have over 25 years’ experience in the training and development of coaches.
I’m a Visiting Research Fellow of the University of Chester.
I wrote The Coach’s Casebook (with Geoff Watts).

2. WHAT IS IT?

3. COACHING IS A STATE OF MIND

4. THE KEY
CONCEPTS
AND
ATTITUDES
Understanding
transformation
Use of emotion
and creativity
Coach as
instrument of
change
Listening to ignite
the human mind
Presupposing
success
Leveraging
motivation

5. EMOTION DISCOMFORT TRANSFORMATION

6. “We remember life’s
important moments
especially well. Emotional
experiences, whether good
or bad, leave strong traces
in the brain.”
Joseph E. LeDoux
Centre for Neural Science,
NYU

7. Mezirow | Situations which give rise to
critical self-reflection and transformational
learning:
▪ A disorienting dilemma
▪ A state of puzzlement

8. Jarvis | Non-transformative situations:
“Non-learning is our response to everyday
experience. As long as experience conforms
to our mental models, no learning is
required.”

10. COACHING IS
NOT A COSY
CHAT

11. LISTENING AS
A BELIEF
NOT A
BEHAVIOUR

13. “The primary
instrument
in coaching is
the coach /
practitioner.”
Burke

14. Use of self
is central to
our work

15. Your clients
learn you

16. Authority
Fear
Intimacy
Conflict
Getting hooked:
Ego
Loss of ability to choose
our responses.

17. Where am I reactive?
When was the last time I got hooked by someone?
What hooked me? Judgments, thoughts / feelings?
What happened to my ability to choose my behaviour?
What can I learn from this?
Reflection exercise in pairs:

18. THANK YOU.
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