Skills in Relational Coaching

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Simon Cavicchia - Metanoia Institute
Charlotte Sills - Metanoia Institute and Ashridge College

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Career Guidance | Coaching & Mentoring | Counseling Skills

January 2025 | 160 pages | SAGE Publications Ltd

This illuminating guide to the core skills and techniques of the relational approach to coaching brings the intersubjective, collaborative relationship between coach and client into focus. The authors use key case examples from a variety of settings to illustrate the skills needed at different stages of the coaching relationship, including chapters on:

· Establishing the Working Alliance

· Inquiring Collaboratively

· Use of Self

· The Presenting Past

· Enactments, Games, Ruptures and Repairs

· Endings in Coaching

Filled with a variety of exercises and reflective questions, this will be an invaluable resource for trainee coaches or those already practicing wishing to refine their skills.

What is Relational Coaching?

Establishing the Working Alliance: Contacting and Contracting

Inquiring Collaboratively

Use of Self

The Presenting Past

Enactments, Games, Ruptures and Repairs

Experiment and change

Endings in Coaching

Relationship and Relating as a Moral Imperative

The 3rd nursing groups look at leadership and coaching. This is a valuable supportive resource in enhancing their experiences of coaching and building relationships.

Mrs Sarah Darling

Education & Community, University College Birmingham

February 18, 2025

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Chapter 3_Inquiring Collaboratively_Skills in Relational Coaching_Cavicchia&Sill

Simon Cavicchia

Simon Cavicchia divides his time between teaching, working as a psychotherapist and supervisor and as an executive coach and consultant to leadership teams in public and private sector organisations. He has held teaching roles at Metanoia Institute where he was primary tutor on the Gestalt psychotherapy programme and Joint Programme Leader for the Masters in Coaching Psychology. He is currently a member of faculty on the Masters in Executive coaching at Ashridge Hult Business School, UK. He has published a number of papers on relational coaching, and co-authored The Theory and Practice of... More About Author

Charlotte Sills

Charlotte Sills is a UKCP registered integrative psychotherapist in private practice and a supervisor, coach, trainer and consultant in a variety of settings. She has been working in the field of psychological therapies since 1979 and is a BACP senior accredited supervisor and a Teaching and Supervising Transactional Analyst. Until 2007 she was also part of the Leadership Team at Metanoia Institute. One of her strong interests is in the interface between therapy and coaching and she is a member of faculty of the Masters in Executive Coaching and Professor of Coaching at Ashridge Hult Business School, UK. More About Author

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