COACHING THE UNCOACHABLE

I began this year with an experience that I did not expect to have and one that I had never before encountered—an uncoachable client. Now I would have thought that I would know how to handle it. After all, from the beginning of training Meta-Coaching, we have repeatedly found people who came to ACMC to become coaches who treated the coaching sessions as “role playing.” Over and over we said from the front of the training room and again and again in the triads— “When you are client offer something real. This is not role playing. Don’t cheat your coach by giving him or her something that is not authentic.”