- Paperback: 460 pages
- Publisher: Jossey Bass; Pap/Cdr Ne edition (28 Nov 2008)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0470192437
- ISBN-13: 978-0470192436
- Product Dimensions: 20.4 x 2.1 x 23.6 cm
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 659,970 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Many facilitators realize that the basic methodologies they use often fail to take their clients to a place of deeper learning and growth required when addressing complex issues. This book offers over seventy exercises, along with tips and tools for expanding the professional coach′s repertoire and includes a full range of interventions. The book also includes step–by–step guidance on how to use these innovative methods with clients. Based on the Skilled Facilitator model developed by best–selling author Roger Schwarz in his landmark book, The Facilitative Coaching Toolkit is ideal for coaches who are looking for advanced alternative approaches to helping their clients get "unstuck" when dealing with obstacles.
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A Different Kind of Coaching BookFacilitative Coaching is a dynamic resource that offers coaches, leaders, facilitators, consultants, and therapists a guide for expanding their repertoire and helping their clients achieve lasting results. It challenges coaches to employ a full range of creative methods for working with the whole brain and helping themselves and their clients get unstuck when facing obstacles.
Facilitative Coaching and the companion CD include more than seventy exercises, along with guidelines, tips, and tools for putting them into action. All the exercises can be adapted to a variety of situations and are designed for both the professional development of coaches and use with clients. In addition to myriad hands–on tools, the book and CD include illustrative client stories, creations, and examples of results that are sure to spark creativity.
All the Facilitative Coaching methods have been tested by the authors during their more than fifty years of combined coaching, consulting, training, and facilitation experience. Their work is grounded in an in–depth coaching model that they developed and teach in their Facilitative Coach workshops. ?It is based on the highly successful Skilled Facilitator approach developed by best–selling author Roger Schwarz. This comprehensive resource includes the information and tools needed to become a collaborative coach who fully engages clients in achieving creative, purposeful action toward their deepest dreams and desires.
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Management Consultant
3 Mar 2009
Format:Paperback
Facilitative Coaching is a resource to both experienced coaches and those newer to the field. The breadth of their experience equips Schwartz and Davidson with concrete techniques that have proven successful over years of coaching. For those who are new to coaching, the book contains a theoretical base that underlies the techniques which are designed to help clients move beyond their current reality to courageously pursue their dreams. The theoretical base is presented in a way that is easily understood and applicable to real life situations. The model weaves together the connections between the inner work of the coach, the inner work of the client and the holding container: the coaching relationship. The authors' coaching process is built upon a long-researched theory about creativity. It explains and predicts what occurs when individuals move beyond the `survival' mode and into the `creativity mode.'
The wide array of techniques described in the book are designed to address the different challenges at each stage of the creative process. The authors' broad experience in coaching provides them with an array of powerful techniques that help people tap into what they really want and enable them to engage the inevitable blockages that arise when we dare to pursue what we really want. The list of techniques begins with ways to help clients clarify their purpose. The authors' position is that we must first know our purpose before we can mobilize how to reach it. One of the strengths of this book is that the techniques it describes utilize both the right brain and the left brain. For example, I love the chapter entitled: Asking your Inner Critic to Step Aside. This technique acknowledges the inner dialogue that so often arises when we dare to dream. The technique described in this chapter is simple but powerful, and it reflects authors' deep understanding of how to effectively engage a side of our psyche that can easily dissuade us from moving beyond survival to full creativity.
More linear techniques like Writing a Life Line enable clients to capture information about themselves that can easily be overlooked when trying to understand what they really want for themselves. The book also contains techniques that mobilize clients into action and techniques which help client sustain their actions until they reach their goal.
I think experienced coaches will find new techniques in this book that can aid them in developing their own techniques that will address each stage of the coaching process.
The wide array of techniques described in the book are designed to address the different challenges at each stage of the creative process. The authors' broad experience in coaching provides them with an array of powerful techniques that help people tap into what they really want and enable them to engage the inevitable blockages that arise when we dare to pursue what we really want. The list of techniques begins with ways to help clients clarify their purpose. The authors' position is that we must first know our purpose before we can mobilize how to reach it. One of the strengths of this book is that the techniques it describes utilize both the right brain and the left brain. For example, I love the chapter entitled: Asking your Inner Critic to Step Aside. This technique acknowledges the inner dialogue that so often arises when we dare to dream. The technique described in this chapter is simple but powerful, and it reflects authors' deep understanding of how to effectively engage a side of our psyche that can easily dissuade us from moving beyond survival to full creativity.
More linear techniques like Writing a Life Line enable clients to capture information about themselves that can easily be overlooked when trying to understand what they really want for themselves. The book also contains techniques that mobilize clients into action and techniques which help client sustain their actions until they reach their goal.
I think experienced coaches will find new techniques in this book that can aid them in developing their own techniques that will address each stage of the coaching process.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Talk therapists take note of this book
3 Mar 2009
Format:Paperback
If you are a traditional talk therapist looking for ways to increase your effectiveness with your clients, check out this book. Don't be fooled by the publisher's emphasis on training for HR professionals. Facilitative Coaching is a gold mine for therapists of all kinds. I am a retired psychotherapist and I wish I had had this book when I was in practice. You don't need to be either an artist or an art therapist to use the ideas in this book. All you need is an adventurous spirit and a desire to help your clients in effective ways.
......And now that I'm retired, I'm using the book myself for my own creative growth and development. It's never too late to learn.
Susan Clark, retired psychotherapist
......And now that I'm retired, I'm using the book myself for my own creative growth and development. It's never too late to learn.
Susan Clark, retired psychotherapist
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
An Organization and Inspiration Smorgasbord
8 Jan 2009
Format:Paperback
As an Art Therapist and Expressive Arts teacher I have always longed for a text that combines theory and inspiration in an accessible format. Facilitative Coaching strikes just the right balance. Schwarz and Davidson have put their considerable experience into an easy to read, easy to use, format that acts as a springboard to the readers own creativity. Providing just enough theory to shift the readers thinking away from hierarchical modalities toward collaborative and mutual learning, they patiently and consistently encourage the use of language that is effective and empowering. This shift is vital to the effectiveness of the tools offered, and will be a breath of fresh air for those mired in the role of "expert". The simplicity of the tools offered should not be underestimated. Simplicity comes from refining and discarding that which is extraneous. These tools will feel familiar, "with a twist", inspiring confidence and creativity. This text is extremely well organized, and in a sense, models the very style of coaching it teaches. Add to that a splash of humor, and compassion, and I highly recommend this book to those who are interested in the creative process, both personally and professionally.
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