COACHING AS A CORRECTIVE CONVERSATION

In Meta-Coaching we say that the coaching conversation is not a normal conversation; it is unique, special, and un-normal. There are many ways in which this is true— here it another way in which it is true.

A real coaching conversation operates as a corrective conversation on a client’s thinking, thinking patterns, and understandings of oneself and one’s world.

What triggered me to write that was a comment I read in a coaching book by someone who was part of a group when a coach was brought in to facilitate a group coaching session. He wrote: “The conversation was a disaster as far as I’m concerned. It went nowhere, it addressed nothing, and it made all of us feel bad.”