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Coaching with NLP: How to Be a Master Coach

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Very good basic book--not much more
Excellent resource for NLP Practitioners
Worth the reading

Coaching with NLP: How to Be a Master Coach
O'Connor Joseph
Manufacturer: Element Books Ltd.
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0007151225

Book Description

Coaching with NLP shows new as well as experienced life coaches how to apply the secrets of Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP) in their life and business coaching practices. Helping coaches to better understand the reality of how their clients think, and how to help them achieve life, and professional goals.

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Very good basic book--not much more.......2007-05-07

If you are looking for a good basic book on this topic, this one is fine. It offers good introductory information about coaching in general and NLP. It's easy reading and offers some excellent resources at the end (over 40 pages of resources). About half of the book is on Coaching and the other half is about NLP. If, on the other hand, you are looking for something more sophisticated on the topic, this book is a little light. A better choice would be Ian McDermott's/Wendy Jago's The NLP Coach. It's not as easy to read, but it's much more comprehensive and useful to understand how to use NLP in coaching. I also think even the book "NLP for Dummies" is better.

Excellent resource for NLP Practitioners.......2007-03-13

Excellent resource for anyone practicing NLP. The book is setup in logical and useable manner and covers a very good set of NLP tools, with detailed explanations.

In the beginning, NLP tools are introduced and explained... and later very detailed explanations of the methodology and use of NLP techniques for all levels of understanding, from NLP beginners to NLP experts.

Worth the reading.......2004-10-25

A lot of grids and methodology, usefull key-points and questions... The NLP techniques are poor and over-simplified in the book, but if you are already trained in NLP, you'll find a usefull guide on how to use your knowledge in Coaching.

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A good introduction to coaching with spirit
Coaching Bliss
Practical and Profound
A different perspective
Resonance and Wow!

Coaching with Spirit
Teri-E Belf
Manufacturer: Pfeiffer
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0787960489

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Learn to Coach with Your Spirit This book helps readers increase their awareness and personal responsibility using a process that defines both spiritual growth and self-discovery through coaching. As the author explains, coaching with Spirit is an integrative, intuitive, creative, and trustful connection and those that coach with Spirit are better able to serve their clients by helping them obtain desired results and increase well-being. Throughout the book, Teri-E Belf, named as one of the ten most influential coaches by readers of Professional Coach magazine, suggests helpful methods for integrating Spirit into coaching practices, presents reflections and applications for both beginning and seasoned coaches, and shows how to increase communications skills. The book includes myriad exercises, activities, points for reflection, assessments, tools, and techniques for learning to coach with Spirit.

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A good introduction to coaching with spirit.......2007-04-08

The problem with most coaching books and trainings is that they work at one level - the mental. They're designed around a framework of setting and achieving goals and are totally unaware of the larger context within which we live and don't address the levels where the real juice and power is, the emotional, spiritual and physical. In that sense they're not holistic. I've found really good books and trainings on coaching hard to find, which is why I initially picked this book up a few years ago.

It's a good book, one that contributes to the overall picture. I don't consider it to be a book that stands alone as a guide to coaching, as something like 'Co-Active Coaching' may be (which I used in my training). The coaching field is still relatively young and so what most people are doing is putting together pieces from here and there (usually according to their own personal worldview and biases) so it's difficult to get a true holistic framework or picture. I was lucky to have a coach trainer from another school who has a totally different perspective, one that really questions the whole transformational model. He says many people that use the transformational type methods cannot tell you what or how they do it, they just chalk it up to spirit or intuition or that 'it's part of the process' etc. and everything in that sense happens in a black box. And also, by using transformational methods, particularly when you're unaware of much of your own stuff (e.g. many coaches have an unconscious need to transform people - so they won't allow them to be who they are - from the coach's perspective, how would you be if you worked with someone for 10 or 20 weeks and they achieved 'nothing'?) you can take a client to places they could never get to on their own through an altered state process and from that place they may make decisions, e.g. leaving jobs etc, that they never would have made on their own at that time, decisions that can have sometimes really devastating impact on their lives. The 'transformational' coach though chalks this up to being part of the client's 'process', all the while being unaware of their own unconscious beliefs, needs and ways of operating. While I haven't agreed totally with what he says I do now look at books and trainings in a more critical way and can see that much of what is being taught, including spirit type coaching is not well grounded. Moreover, few coaches have done deep self awareness training and modalities BEFORE they learn the toolkit of coaching - and so see coaching as something you do to someone. In this field, it's very hard to find really conscious mentors, authors and trainers, something which I only woke up to after many years of trainings, workshops and teachers. So that is the context within which I write this review.

The book itself focuses on coaching with spirit. While it does offer a broad frame for doing that, it's contributions are from a variety of authors with different backgrounds (and therefore vastly different levels of awareness, training, experience, worldviews etc.). Initially I thought this was a major downside - it's not going to be a cohesive whole but just a patchwork of ideas. To some extent though, it's the book's strength because you're getting many different views, tips and perspectives.

I would use and recommend using the book along the lines of take what works and leave the rest. From that perspective there are many tools, perspectives and ideas in the book that are valuable. (Obviously what I consider valuable may not be for someone else). For me, often it's the little things and ideas that can be powerful, like discussions of the 'dip' that often occurs in the coaching relationship (with the client or the coach) and how others have addressed that. There are also a lot of reflections questions in the book that will have you considering issues of importance to your effectiveness and how you coach at a much deeper level. These are quite useful also.

The book covers the relationship between coaching and spirituality using the following areas - connecting with the Self, connecting with the client, connecting with the whole, the present moment and responsibility. There good chapters on marketing coaching with spirit and executive coaching. There are a few assessments in the book, some of which you may use, others you may find less useful. The book is based on the many author's experience (and obviously their training and influences), some NLP, touches of the New Sciences and ideas from therapy the wisdom of the elements. The real value though is in many of the tools, questions and perspectives that you can use and some of the reflections which will get you thinking more deeply about your practice. It's solid book, a part of the picture, just not the whole picture... the book which describes that I've not yet come across.

All the best with your coaching practice.

Coaching Bliss.......2002-12-10

This book is pure coaching bliss. I am a new spiritual coach and I found this book to be the perfect step to my next level as a coach. The wonderful passages about being quiet and allowing spirit in were very important for me. The many examples of real coaching experiences allowed me to understand how to invite spirit in. This book can't help but shift the way we coach, I reached a new level of joy just reading it and I know my coaching has shifted as a result. Open your heart to this extraordinary book.

Practical and Profound.......2002-12-02

Teri-E Belf has written a book both practical and profound - filled with proven principles and real-life experiences, shared by experienced coaches and people whose lives have been touched and transformed by coaching. Belf goes beyond coaching techniques (although these abound as well) to the heart of the matter - how insights and transformation can occur in big and small ways when Spirit is allowed to lead. I have rarely read a book with so much excellent practical advice that is so unabashedly focused on what really matters - helping people find personal purpose, meaning and connection in their lives. I highly recommend this to coaches and to all managers and professionals who are interested in helping people achieve their fullest potential.

A different perspective.......2002-11-24

The review from Cathy misinterprets the phrase, 'accepting clients unconditionally.' I am the strongest advocate for avoiding bogus feedback, having published an article to this very point. www.successunlimitednet.com/articles.
I train coaches to provide acKNOWledgement that offers clients a chance to KNOW themselves better, not feel good, or bad. Feeling is not relevant to acknowledgement.
Furthermore the reviewer mispells my name twice and that is consistant with her review. Apparently she skipped large sections and details that would have clarified my perspective. I value different opinions, not inaccurate representations.

Resonance and Wow!.......2002-11-24

With each page, I felt an inner connection. an inner knowing and yet an Aha!- a sense of discovery- embracing paradox, so characteristic of encounter with spirit.

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Shows readers the steps to achieve exactly what you want in life.

A Teachable Spirit: Talking with My "Self"

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A Teachable Spirit: Talking with My "Self"
Richard Wilson Owens
Manufacturer: Protheus Press
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0967837707

Book Description

The thrust of this book is that it teaches the reader how-to be a mentor, coach or nurturer to oneself while serving as a mentor. As the book unfolds, the teacher helps the student to rediscover the true relationship that one has with God, others and oneself through the usage of "Know Thy Self" and "Spirituality" principles.

The girl with nine toes. A story about personal growth

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The girl with nine toes. A story about personal growth
Ray Wilkins
Manufacturer: BoD
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 3833481579

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'The Girl with Nine Toes - A Story about Personal Growth' is a parable of our modern times. It is the voice of an old world talking to our new world. Like all parables, whether from the Christian gospels or other of the world's great religions, the message is timeless. The story form is deliberate. A parable is not telling you what to think but rather to stir the imagination to know how to think. 'The Girl with Nine Toes' is a story from an even more ancient world - the aboriginal tradition, the native peoples, not just in Australia as told here but from the First Nations everywhere. These teachers are telling us something about our own survival - but crucially also theirs. Listen well and you shall hear. Hear well and you shall act. Part of the foreword, written by Tony Long.

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