My 10 Strategies for Integrative Coaching Co-constructing the Journe
This book gives coaches, and all leaders, the wider perspective and the practical tools to help those they work with to achieve deep and lasting change that generates long-term performance.Who we are, and how we relate to others, is a major factor in the
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Vincent Lenhardt
My 10 Strategies for Integrative Coaching Co-constructing the Journey from Freedom to Responsibility
Vincent Lenhardt Transformance Pro/VL EURL Puteaux, Paris, France
Translated by Guy Bullen
ISBN 978-3-319-54794-7 DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-54795-4
ISBN 978-3-319-54795-4 (eBook)
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Foreword
Being and becoming, for and through the other. This is how I aspire to position myself, as I relate to my clients. Positioning oneself as “being and becoming for and through the other” requires a particular set of convictions, values, attitudes and competences— the attributes of a profession that also requires deep expertise: I speak of the coaching profession. At the same time, anyone who wishes to create the conditions of unconditional acceptance, where the other is deeply and truly the center of attention, can aspire to these attributes in the context of a helping relationship. When I say “for and through the other”, I also speak of the irreducible complexity of the helping relationship and its dynamics. “I is another”,1 wrote the French poet Arthur Rimbaud. It is also the title of one of Father Maurice Zundel’s most beautiful books on spirituality (one can guess who the “Other” is for Zundel). My identity develops and is continually transformed through my contact with the “other”—this alter ego, similar to me but never the same. As I open myself up to this “otherness” that envelops and penetrates me, I enrich myself as much a
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