Theories and How They Apply to the Active Ingredients
As individuals interested in helping others change or become more effective, we all embrace certain techniques and theories of change. Whether we are aware of them or not, we hold them: there is no such thing as theory-free or technique-free coaching. We bring theories to issues a client presents to us, and each of us upon hearing the same issues will have a perspective and a way of thinking about the problem, its causes, its effects, and possible solutions.
Theory is important because it happens at the intersection of the coach’s theory and the client’s theory. If the coach can put these two theories into creative tension, they will strengthen the effects of the other three active ingredients. ...
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