Category Archives: Coaching
The Enneagram in Autobiography
Take a look at these covers of different autobiographies and see how the nine personality styles of the Enneagram allow insight into their famous authors. Of course, these are guesses into these authors’ Enneagram styles, but they are guesses that … Continue reading
Coaching and art
I am frequently asked to describe what coaching is. It can be summed up by a line from Leonard Cohen’s well known song, Dance me to the End of Love: “Show me slowly what I only know the limits of.” … Continue reading
Crossing the Threshold
Which do you choose? The blue pill or the red pill? You remember Neo in the movie the Matrix? The blue pill keeps you in the world as you know it, the red pill brings you new knowledge and awareness … Continue reading
TCC Developmentors at work
The Coaching Center holds such a special supervision space led by Paddy Paisley. Us coaches or “developmentors” get deep learning and develop our capacity to hold others so they get the transformation and growth they are yearning for.
Coaching with backbone
As coaches we talk about coaching with “heart and backbone” (Whitworth). Backbone is the ability to hold someone’s “feet to the fire,” to hold them accountable to what they care about and what they say they will do. As coaches, backbone … Continue reading
Bikram and backbone
All of us need “backbone” to take real leadership in our own lives. This is our ability to set goals and stick to them, to set boundaries and hold them clear. There are many ways to develop and sustain a healthy … Continue reading
The place of greatest potential
In manifesting what we want in our lives, Otto Scharmer writes about putting ourselves in the place of greatest potential for that to happen. For a river flowing downward to the sea, a waterfall is the place of greatest potential. … Continue reading