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 …

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.

In the light of the current drive to generate more evidence on which to base a profession of coaching, it was with interest that I read David B. Drake’s recent (2011) paper, What do coaches need to know? Using the Mastery Window to assess and develop expertise (Coaching: An International Journal of Theory, Research and Practice, Vol.4, No.2, September 2011, …

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