The Mindful Coach: Seven Roles for Helping Others Grow - Softcover

Silsbee, Douglas K.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0974500356 ISBN 13: 9780974500355

Publisher: Ivy River Pr, 2004

Synopsis

The Mindful Coach offers a powerful approach to developing effective coaching skills using a seven-part model. The book's emphasis on mindfulness also taps into the growing contemporary interest in spirituality and meaning in the workplace.

About this title

From the Author

Writing this book has been an enormous pleasure and challenge. Many people have contributed in one way or another. I'm pleased to offer this book, not only to professional coaches, but to all professionals who take their own development, and that of others, seriously.

Coaching and developing people is a critical capability of leaders in any field. This book provides a practical method for doing this more skillfully, based on a proven approach. The reader looking for a set of skills and tools will be happy with the practical tools included here.

The book, however, goes beyond tools and skills. The uniqueness of this book is the particular emphasis on the corresponding development of the coach. The act of coaching itself, when entered into by a thoughtful practitioner, provides a constant invitation to learning.

In my own work with leaders in business, government, and education, I've often felt that I was learning alongside those I was working for. The underlying premise of this book is that we can't truly serve the learning of others unless we are, at the same time, doing our own work. As you coach, you must also be a learner. It's my hope that the book will both inspire and guide you toward this end.

From the Inside Flap

Nearly everyone coaches at one time or another. As parents, teachers, managers, consultants, executives, therapists, or clergy, we foster the learning and growth of others as a seminal aspect of our relationships with them. Emphasizing a potent combination of self-awareness, partnering, and the skillful deployment of coaching roles, The Mindful Coach provides an essential roadmap for anyone responsible for supporting the development of people.

The Mindful Coach unites modern Buddhist perspectives on mindfulness with the Septet Model, an architecture for entering and navigating the coaching relationship. The model differentiates and applies seven key roles played by all professionals charged with promoting growth and change. Artfulness in coaching requires using these distinct "Voices"--- Master, Partner, Investigator, Reflector, Teacher, Guide, Contractor --- flexibly in service to the learning needs of those we are developing.

Coaching is ultimately about the learner, not the coach. Through the cultivation of mindfulness, we become able to recognize and suspend our own agendas and judgments to place ourselves truly in service to the learner. The results? Strong coaching partnerships. Developed, self-reliant and fulfilled people. Higher levels of effectiveness and performance. Self mastery for both coach and client.

This book shows how.

Edition details

• Publisher: Ivy River Pr
• Publication date: 2004
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0974500356
• ISBN 13: 9780974500355
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 336