The Handbook of Knowledge-Based Coaching: FROM THEORY TO PRACTICE

INJUNCTIONS

TA identifies twelve basic instructions about how not to be—most probably nonverbal messages we receive as children. Many of us will have experienced at least one and possibly several of these, not necessarily in their malign form and mostly not from parents who consciously wished us any harm. They include such messages as Don’t be who you are, Don’t change, Don’t be a child, Don’t grow up, Don’t make it in your life, Don’t think, and Don’t feel.