Professional Coaches
In coaching conversations, metaphors emerge as quick peeks into deeper meaning—idea containers that reveal unconscious insights about thoughts, emotions, dreams, and possibilities. Their power lies not in the vivid imagery of language to convey a speaker’s ideas but...
Professional Coaches
In a recent conversation with Claire Pedrick for The Coaching Studio Podcast, I stumbled upon an idea that threw me down a rabbit hole. Claire had casually shared a distinction about how we, as coaches, perceive our role and the people we work with. She used the...
Professional Coaches
If you have seen or read my work, you know I bang the gong of metaphors whenever possible. Metaphors are not only powerful tools in coaching; they enhance a coach’s capacity to listen actively to a client’s language. They make abstract concepts tangible and relatable....
Professional Coaches
In a recent one of my free monthly Q&A for coaches, someone asked, “I keep hearing you saying ‘directionality.’ What is that? I have never heard of this in coaching before.” Directionality in Coaching Directionality is a term that I have begun using to describe...
Professional Coaches
In exploring metaphors, neuroscience looks at the intersection between language and visual imagery. In this article, we will dive into the relationship between metaphors and the brain, exploring how metaphors serve to bridge spoken words and the mental images that...
Professional Coaches
The phrase “I don’t know” holds a lot of uncertainty for coaches when a client uses that as a response. It can easily throw coaches into their own “I don’t know what to do” existential crisis, sending them into some rapid emergency response to elicit anything from the...
