Coaching Excellence- Just in TIME
Finding maximum inspiration just in TIME Everyone has had the experience of scrambling to meet a deadline. We all know the sense of urgency deadlines impose. Even great art has sometimes been created on a deadline. I have previously written in this blog of an experience from a long time ago, when I was a student composer at a New …
Story telling for the Life Coach
First, let me remind you of a Chinese Taoist story that I previously posted in this blog back in May 9th, 2012. If you want to read the entire story (it’s not long) here’s the link: (https://ericksonian.com/-MAIN/?blog=using-stories-in-coaching) Basically the story involves an old Chinese village suffering from a drought so they send for a Rainmaker. He arrives in town and …
Coaching Tips from Ibsen and Erickson
As couple of weeks ago in Oslo, Norway I visited the former home – now museum – of Henrik Ibsen, the great Norwegian playwright. As I noted in a previous blog post, Ibsen had a large portrait of August Strindberg hanging in his studio. This is surprising because Strindberg was, in Ibsen’s words, his “mortal enemy.” Ibsen kept his portrait …
Using Questions to SHIFT your FOCUS; plus Coaching vs Consulting
The Power of Questions to SHIFT your FOCUS The Summer is unofficially over and many are not sorry to see it go. Record heat, in some areas, and a crushing drought has certainly been the major headline for much of the United States. It’s challenging, isn’t it, to think of things like NLP and Hypnosis training as being all that …
Coaches: Discover their Motivation Strategy
But what I thought was particularly fascinating is the large portrait of August Strindberg he had hanging facing his desk. This is fascinating because Strindberg was his “MORTAL ENEMY.” They never met but argued often via the newspapers. Ibsen kept his portrait there to motivate himself to write. AND to have what he wrote be of the highest caliber.
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