4.43 Can you be a non-interrupting coach?

2022-02-07

Nancy Kline provides in 'The Promise that changes everything - I will not interrupt you', some very clear and challenging requirements of what it takes to coach in a Thinking Environment. How, she says can you be sure that what you as a coach are about to say is more significant that what, as a busy thinker, your client is using silence to ponder? Can we, as she suggests, change how we determine a session's value? Are we comfortable with telling our clients they will be paying for our attention,...

Nancy Kline provides in 'The Promise that changes everything - I will not interrupt you', some very clear and challenging requirements of what it takes to coach in a Thinking Environment.

How, she says can you be sure that what you as a coach are about to say is more significant that what, as a busy thinker, your client is using silence to ponder?

Can we, as she suggests, change how we determine a session's value? Are we comfortable with telling our clients they will be paying for our attention, and that everything else is a bonus?

Can we, the holder of great wisdom and advice, agree that we will not interrupt our client unless and until our thoughts are invited?

Can we move away from being over-directive, over-helping disrupters of thinking to being genuinely facilitative and giving those with whom we work a rare and special space in which to reach more positive places?

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