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Counsellors/therpists / HRD or OD Coaches Trainers

Is Coaching doing Therapy?

1st China Executive Coaching Conference (CECC) Would you coach an executive if he/she wants to talk about his/her marital problems? /

Is Coaching doing Therapy?

Coaching is not therapy!!
Are you doing coaching if you listen to your friend talking about his/her marital problems?

Is Coaching doing Therapy?

What happens if as a coach, you let that executive talk about his/her marital problems? /
Release some tension Enables to re-focus Strengthen the coaching relationship Understand that he/she needs further help /

Is Coaching doing Therapy?

Are you then doing therapy?

NO
Take away the fears from coaches on what they coach about

Is Coaching doing Therapy?

1. When then it is Therapy? 2. When I am not coaching? 3. Is there an overlap between Therapy and Coaching?

Is Coaching doing Therapy?

What coaches think therapy is?
Person focused Fixing personality Past focused in particular childhood Long-term

 How do I avoid doing therapy?

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As long as I dont deal with the past I am safe

What about a present traumatic experience? As long as I dont deal with personal issues I am safe

So, does this mean that when coaching with how an executive behaves there is nothing personal about it?

Is Coaching doing Therapy?

We would define coaching with terms such as:
Development Potential Future focused Growth Change Behaviour Present

Is Coaching doing Therapy?

Main problem

How can you NOT do something that you dont know about?

Is Coaching doing Therapy?

What is the boundary with therapeutic approaches focused on the present?
Person-centered Gestalt

What about with therapeutic approaches focussed of the future

Solutions Focused Brief Therapy Positive psychology

Is Coaching doing Therapy?

What about therapeutic approaches that are focused on changing behaviurs? CBT What about therapeutic approaches that are focused on the development the person? Positive Psychotherapy

Is Coaching Therapy?
What is then the difference?
Context Depth

What is coaching
Relational Coaching Erik de Haan


Relational Coaching Erik de Haan

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What is coaching

Relational Coaching Erik de Haan

Relational Coaching Erik de Haan

Types of coaching
SKILLS COACHING PERFORMANCE COACHING DEVELOPMENTAL COACHING TRANSFORMATIONAL COACHING

Coaching objectives: finite/concrete Implied coaching style: directive Typical duration: Short-term : / : :

Coaching objectives: complex/emergent Implied coaching style: non-directive Typical duration: Long-term : : / : : :

Is Therapy doing Coaching?

Existential Marital Therapy (I.W. Charny)
Disturbances of natural developmental process Developmental Block or Delay Interventions in Therapy

Learning: Teaching, training, COACHING

Dysfunctional Style or Habit

Limit and Block: instructing, redirecting, reframing, provide alternative Structural Process: evoking or intensifying emotions, state of crisis, free association, confrontation with self

Psychopathology

 Positive Psyhochotherapy (N. Pesseschniak)

Diagnostic levels Symptoms in one occasion and in one context Symptoms in many occasions and in one context Symptoms in many occasions and in many different contexts

Is Therapy doing Coaching?

Therapeutic Work Actual Conflict present behavioral partner Inner Conflict past conflict express in present behavior Basic Conflict development of personality structure

Is Therapy doing Coaching?

A good Therapist makes a good Coach
Assess what is the best intervention for the client: training, coaching, therapy Able to provide a deeper work if requested Trained the necessary skills

What are the necessary skills?

Skill Active Listening Coaching Core Basic Coaching Skills Therapy Micro-skills basic to start any therapeutic relationship Empathy & Rapport & Questioning Expression of Self Interpreting Theoretical Frame Expressed in the assumptions of the coach Offering a model of being

Leading Influencing

Embedded in the interrelational context

Articulated openly in the inter-relational context

The more coaching moves toward the developmental or transformational direction of its professional continuum, the less it can be distinguished from therapy. Likewise, the more a coach works developmentally or transformationally, the more knowledgeable he or she ought to be of therapeutic discourse and practice including the holding of sufficient understanding related to areas of psychological disorder and disruption.

Ernersto Spinelli

 Types of coaching
SKILLS COACHING PERFORMANCE COACHING DEVELOPMENTAL COACHING TRANSFORMATIONAL COACHING

Coaching objectives: finite/concrete Implied coaching style: directive Typical duration: Short-term : / : :

Coaching objectives: complex/emergent Implied coaching style: non-directive Typical duration: Long-term : : / : : :

The importance of Therapy

Every person has an assumption about how we operate Some coaches claim that they dont need a theoretical framework BE CAREFUL! Ability to identify when you are working at developmental level of pathology/structural level / Broaden the work of the coach and enables them to work where coaching is most effective

Why Positive Psychotherapy?

Integrative Approach Cross-cultural approach

Conflict centered against problem centered Structure and lack of structure tools process

Developmental approach

Anchored in the life of the client, not the theory of the mind

Why WAPP China?

International Recognition Highly experienced psychotherapists

what works Vs what it is diversity of emphasis Vs

Dynamic young organisation with a true desire for developing people

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