Supporting the development of others in challenging times requires a
robust understanding of how humans grow and change, a methodology to
accelerate sustainable learning, and the authenticity and depth that
comes from a rigorous commitment to our own development.
This course is a two-part program designed to provide coaching and
change professionals with a pragmatic toolkit for accelerating your own
life-long development and that of your clients. We hold a dual emphasis
on building and extending our own presence, and on the specific
coaching moves that build long term competence and self-generation in
our clients. You will build a foundation of presence-based coaching
skills, with a particular orientation toward developing the whole
person. The entire curriculum is grounded in a developmental model of
human change, leading toward the self-generative capacity to be present
and a learner in all of life.
Each part consists of a approximately two hours of pre-work, a three
day retreat in the North Carolina mountains, and two one-hour follow-up
class calls with Doug. Part I: Being a Development Partner can be taken
as a stand-alone program appropriate for any level of coaching
experience. Taken with Part II: Evoking Self-Generation, the entire
course offers an entry into a coaching approach with considerable
depth, appropriate even for experienced practitioners.
The Presence-Based Coaching Course is designed for:
- Practicing coaches, facilitators, and OD practitioners
seeking to deepen self-development and bring presence explicitly into
their work
- Business and non-profit leaders using coaching to develop people and build relationships
- New and aspiring coaches wanting a coherent and integrated coaching approach
- Educators
and helping professionals who recognize that their way of being, and
ability to ask artful questions, is essential for the learning and
empowerment of others.
Our overall promises for the Presence-Based Coaching Course are that you will:
- Build your capacity to extend mindfulness and presence into your coaching conversations
- Build
competency in using specific coaching roles, artful questions, and
presence-based coaching moves to open new possibilities of seeing and
acting
- Increase your self-generative capacity by receiving and acting on feedback
- Build competency in creating learning partnerships through experience as coach and client
- Design
development plans that integrate mutually reinforcing learning
strategies including somatic (body) practices, self-observations, and
competency-building action steps
- Develop your resilience, authenticity, resourcefulness, and ability to stay present no matter what is going on.
Presence-Based Coaching I: Being a Development Partner
Specific areas of content focus:
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Observing somatic, emotional, and cognitive levels of experience
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Identifying and working with behavioral and cognitive habits
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Cultivating and holding presence in a coaching partnership
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Distinguishing and selecting seven distinct coaching roles
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Framing artful questions for catalyzing awareness, defining outcomes, and mapping a plan of action
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Working with metaphors and distinctions
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Designing body practices and self-observations
- Building an integrated development plan.
