One of the most significant conversations I’ve had in the past five years or so was an argument I lost with a coach I’d hired who I was attempting to persuade of the value of intellect in general and my intellect in particular. What lost me the argument wasn’t anything that she said, but rather something that I felt. In the midst of my repeated intellectual thrusts into her annoyingly non-judgmental listening, I was suddenly overwhelmed by a deep and profound feeling of peace and quiet.

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If you missed parts 1-3, you can read them here. 

One of my favorite ways of describing Transformative Coaching is this:

“A meaningful conversation about the nature of the human experience.”

Simple though that description is, there are three distinct parts to it, each one an essential contribution to the value of the process…

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If you missed parts one and two, you can read them here.

A couple of years ago, I was in a session with my coach at the time, Steve Hardison, when he drew a little square in the corner of a flip chart and said “this is you”. While I didn’t want to insult his artistic ability, I was pretty sure I didn’t actually look like that so I asked him what he meant.

“You’ve built a masterpiece of a life,” Steve said, “on a postage stamp of possibility.”

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If you missed part one, you can read it here.

When I first began coaching “high impact” clients, I wondered what it was I had to offer them. After all, many of them were already wealthier and more successful in the eyes of the world than I was.  Yet I knew that they were getting something of value from our work together because they kept coming back and they kept referring their friends and colleagues.

So I asked the only people I could think of who might be able to answer that question – my clients themselves.

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