From Coach to Awakener Review

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(More customer reviews)This book serves two audiences: 1. Coaches with a basic knowledge of NLP who would like to take their coaching practice to a whole new level and 2. Students of NLP who are looking for a fresh and organized presentation of NLP techniques.
Not all NLP techniques are covered, nor is this book to be considered an overview or introduction to NLP.
Dilts notes that, in the past, coaching has been focused mainly on improving behavior performance through careful observation and feedback. More recently personal, executive and life coaching has evolved to provide support on a number of different levels: environment, behavior, capabilities, beliefs and values, identity and spirituality. Each level has a different focus and requires a different approach and set of tools.
Using the neurological levels, Dilts explains how your coaching style must adapt to each level: environment (caretaker or guide), behaviors (coach), capabilities (teacher), beliefs and values (mentor), identity (sponsor) and spirituality (awakener).
Each level is clearly explained together with a suggested set of tools and techniques. Many of the techniques are familiar to NLP practitioners, and there are a few new ones as well. For the student of NLP this approach helps answer an often heard question - how do I know which technique to use?
My only disappointment is that occasionally, Dilts presents a story to illustrate his point. However without a reference to its origin, you are not sure if this is fact or urban legend.
If you are serious about your coaching practice or a student of NLP, then this is a "must add" to your bookshelf.


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Coaching is the process of helping people and teams to perform at the peak of their abillities. It involves drawing out people's strengths, helping them to bypass personal barriers and limits in order to achieve their personal bests, and facilitating them to function more effectively as members of a team.Historically, coaching has been focused toward achieving improvement with respect to a specific behavioral performance. This involves promoting the development of that person's behavioral competence through careful observation and feedback.In recent years, the notion of coaching has taken on a more generalized and expanded meaning. Personal coaching, executive coaching and life coaching provide support on a number of different levels: behaviors, capabilities, beliefs, values, identity and even spirtual. These new and more comprehensive forms of coaching-executive coaching and life coaching-can be referred to as capital-C- Coaching. Large C Coaching involves helping people effectively achieve out comes on a range of levels. We guide people to learn about new environments, for instance; coach them to improve specific behavioral competencies; teach them new cognitive capabilities; mentor empowering eliefs and values; sponsor growth at the identity level; and awaken people's awareness of the larger system or field.This book defines the types of contexts and situations which require the capital C Coach to focus on one of these roles - caretaker, guide, coach, teacher, mentor, sponsor, awakener - and provides a specific toolbox for each role. In other words, it provides a comprehensive tool set to be used by an effective coach to manage the entire scope of large C Coaching activities- from caretaking to awakening.

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