Coaching eller terapi, det är frågan?

Läs gärna den här intressanta artikeln av - Dave Buck, April 2004 CoachVille News.

”Coaching in business and life presents the same basic formula…When a person hires a coach to accomplish something important to them – you can be sure that they will bump up against growth-related issues. As a result, coaches must be ready to delve deeply into life and create awareness of what is happening both inside and outside.

In order to do this we must get past our “fear of doing therapy”. Coaching and therapy share the domain of psychology but they are different things and it is essential that we stop trying to compare and contrast them. The more you talk about what you are NOT, the more you are affected by it. A few key points:

• Talking deeply about life is NOT the sole domain of psychotherapy
• Talking about the past is NOT the sole domain of psychotherapy
• Coaches are teachers. And one of the areas that coaches teach abot is “how life works”
• Anyone with a life is qualified to share what they have learned from their own perspective
• As long as you’re not treating a “mental illness”…you’re not doing psychotherapy

I think it is inevitable that therapist will see coaches as invading their “turf” to some degree but we have to stop focusing on that…and focus on doing great coaching.”

Med vänlig hälsning – Peter Lee, personlig coach, ring din Coach

peter@ringdincoach.nu

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