There is a big market for cheating in our mid-21st Century world. Frankly, we have all done some cheating in our life. These are what we identify as Soft Cheats—accompanied by Soft Lies. There are of course the Hard Cheats and the Hard Lies. How do we handle soft and hard cheats as coaches?

Love Lingers Here: Stories of Enduring Intimate Relationships by William Bergquist, PhD To download the sample chapter, click the red button below. To purchase the book, click the link above. CHAPTER THREE  THE FIRST IMAGE: STABILITY AND REMARRIAGE In our aspirations regarding the formation of a long-term, enduring relationship we tend to look for stability and even tranquility — especially …

We return once again in this thirty second issue of The Future of Coaching to findings from the neurosciences as they relate to professional coaching. Neurobiological studies of memory, emotions, stress, interpersonal relationships, neuroplasticity and many other aspects of human life are broadening and deepening our perspectives on the professional coaching enterprise—while pointing the way to new coaching strategies and …

The retention of memories from our life has always been a source of great interest on the part of philosophers as well as biologists and, more recently, psychologists. Now, with the ongoing revolution of the neural sciences, we are learning much more about how memories are formed, retained, forgotten and revised.

This is one in a series of lists containing documents related to the field of professional coaching. This list focuses on coaching supervision.

William Bergquist, Ph.D. and Kevin Weitz,Psy.D. (Authoritarian Personalities) seem to combine the worst elements of each kind of personality, being power-hungry, unsupportive of equality, manipulative, and amoral, as social dominators are in general, while also being religiously ethnocentric and dogmatic, as right-wing authoritarians tend to be. The author suggested that, although they are small in number, such persons can have …

Kevin Weitz, Psy.D. and William Bergquist, Ph.D. During this holiday season hundreds of thousands of families will likely be celebrating, but many will also be lamenting family loved ones lost needlessly because they were not vaccinated against Covid-19. Many of these deaths were likely because they were suspicious of the vaccine and believed sources that suggested the vaccine was a …

  William Bergquist Ph.D. and Kevin Weitz, Psy.D. How do we improve not just the quality of expertise being delivered in mid-21st century societies, but also access to and acceptance of high-quality expertise? We believe that quality is improved with diversity of input and both access and acceptance are improved with a broad-based collaboration among diverse communities. What is the …

We are ourselves a rich source of expertise regarding many matters. While we don’t always fully appreciate this expertise and often distort or make poor use of this personal expertise, it is there for our use – thanks to our capacity to process at multiples in our brain at the same time, and thanks to the recent expansion in the human brain of an advanced mental processing system (the prefrontal cortex).

For the third time in the history of The Library of Professional Coaching (LPC) we are offering “A Best of . . .” volume of Curated. In this instance, we are also providing a theme that brings the selected essays together in a coherent manner. The theme is: Coaching Trends and Strategies. In past editions of Curated, we have worked …