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This illuminating guide to the core skills and techniques of the relational approach to coaching brings the intersubjective, collaborative relationship between coach and client into focus. The authors use key case examples from a variety of settings to illustrate the skills needed at different stages of the coaching relationship, including chapters on:
· Establishing the Working Alliance
· Inquiring Collaboratively
· Use of Self
· The Presenting Past
· Enactments, Games, Ruptures and Repairs
· Endings in Coaching
Filled with a variety of exercises and reflective questions, this will be an invaluable resource for trainee coaches or those already practicing wishing to refine their skills.
List of contents
What is Relational Coaching?
Establishing the Working Alliance: Contacting and Contracting
Inquiring Collaboratively
Use of Self
The Presenting Past
Enactments, Games, Ruptures and Repairs
Experiment and change
Endings in Coaching
Relationship and Relating as a Moral Imperative
About the author
Simon Cavicchia divides his time between teaching, working as a psychotherapist and supervisor and as an executive coach and consultant to leadership teams in public and private sector organisations. He has held teaching roles at Metanoia Institute where he was primary tutor on the Gestalt psychotherapy programme and Joint Programme Leader for the Masters in Coaching Psychology. He is currently a member of faculty on the Masters in Executive coaching at Ashridge Hult Business School, UK. He has published a number of papers on relational coaching, and co-authored The Theory and Practice of Relational Coaching - Complexity, Paradox and Integration (Routledge, 2018) with Maria Gilbert. In all his work Simon is interested in exploring the centrality of human relationships in how individuals experience themselves, think and behave together. He is particularly interested in the role shame plays in inhibiting human connection and collaboration and how to reduce shame in order to create conditions for creative and meaningful relationships.
Charlotte Sills is a UKCP registered integrative psychotherapist in private practice and a supervisor, coach, trainer and consultant in a variety of settings. She has been working in the field of psychological therapies since 1979 and is a BACP senior accredited supervisor and a Teaching and Supervising Transactional Analyst. Until 2007 she was also part of the Leadership Team at Metanoia Institute. One of her strong interests is in the interface between therapy and coaching and she is a member of faculty of the Masters in Executive Coaching and Professor of Coaching at Ashridge Hult Business School, UK.
