What does it really take to help your clients evoke awareness, expand and shift their perspectives, and truly leverage coaching as a mind-altering experience?  What mental habits do you need to cultivate to best serve the clients you support? The short answer is: get yourself out of the way.  The article below was first published in, and reproduced with permission …

A mindfulness revolution is spreading across the world in response to the fragmentation of attention caused by rapid change and disruption. The Gestalt approach, which holds awareness as core to functional well-being and new learning, is an antidote to this fragmentation. Gestalt coaching, the latest innovative application of Gestalt theory, offers coaches and their clients ways to meet 21st century …

The framework, called “Zones of Awareness,” breaks the full experience of awareness down into three parts: middle zone, outer zone and inner zone.

I want to focus on the intentional actions that come from known schemas that we may or may not be able to articulate.

We want our clients “to discover for themselves…” In other words, we want them to become “aware of.”

The bulk of what a coach does is asking. It’s asking in the service of creating a new awareness.

Here are some “New Rules” for having life and work be either a romantic adventure or nothing at all.

Explainers Anonymous is a non- profit organization whose purpose is to help people addicted to explaining everything. My name is Phil. I started it.

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There is a pattern in acquiring talent that includes, “deep practice, ignition, and master coaching.”