Depth Coaching: Discovering Archetypes For Empowerment, Growth, And Balance

Discover your own hero's journey and how to encourage others on their paths to self-understanding. In Depth Coaching, author Pat Adson explores the skills and attitudes needed to assist people in developing their full potential. As a detailed guide for therapists, life coaches and any one interested in helping others on the journey, this book provides the tools for an intense study of personal developmental issues. Based on the work of Carol Pearson, co-developer of the Pearson-Marr Archetype Indicator® instrument, Depth Coaching emphasizes the practice of positive psychology based on development rather than disease. Each section of the journey contains a workbook.

Initially resisting the call to become a life coach, author and psychologist Pat Adson discovered the rewarding benefits of helping others explore paths to meaning and balance. She notes, however, that this is a vocation undertaken only after one has fulfilled his or her own journey. Inspired by Carol Pearson's work with self-development through archetypes, Adson set out to explore her own "hero's journey." The result of her exploration is this step-by-step guide created for all who wish to take the journey or to coach others on their paths.

"Coaching as a discipline," Adson tells readers, "is a client-centered way of working with individuals to help them achieve their goals, balance their lives, and attain fulfillment. Coaching focuses on clients' lifelong development rather than the remediation of past wounds. The coach and client collaborate as partners or peers in a relationship that is symmetric rather than paternalistic.

Therapists, educators, and spiritual leaders will find Adson's methods useful in developing their own strengths as well as encouraging clients toward embarking on their personal journeys. Individuals and anyone who wishes to support themselves or others through growth and development will also find this work enlightening and helpful.

Patricia R. Adson, Ph.D. LP. PCC Certified Hudson Institute Coach Certified Hudson Institute Master Coach Licensed Psychologist

Pat Adson, is a licensed psychologist, a certified coach, an educator, and an author who divides her time between Rochester, MN and Santa Barbara, CA.

In her professional career she has combined teaching and clinical practice in the fields of education, psychotherapy, and life (transition) coaching. After a career in teaching and psychotherapy her interest in adult development and leadership led her to turn to the field of life coaching as a vehicle for implementing group and individual change and creative leadership. In addition to a private coaching practice she enjoys serving as mentor coach to other coaches and coaches in training and is a member of the Leadership Team of the Hudson Institute of Santa Barbara, a premiere coach training institution.

She has written two books in which she applied Jungian theory and the work of Carol S. Pearson to the fields of psychotherapy and coaching: Finding Your Own True North and Helping Others Find Direction in Life, and Depth Coaching: Discovering Archetypes for Empowerment, Growth, and Balance. She is also the author of A Princess and Her Garden: A Fable of Awakening and Arrival.