COACHING TO FACILITATE LEARNING

“The Inner Game was born in the context of coaching, yet it is all about learning. The two go hand in hand. The coach facilitates learning.” (The Inner Game of Work, 2000, p. 177)

How about that? Coaching and learning as two facets that go together for the sake of actualizing one’s highest and best. In fact, many of the thinkers and writers in the field of coaching define it as the form of adult learning or as the art of being a life-long learner. Now if that’s true, then guess what your job is as a Coach? Your job is that of facilitating the learning experience of your client. And if that’s true, then suppose we ask a client at the end of the session a series of learning questions: So what did you learn? What learnings did you making during the session? Were you aware that when you engaged a coach you were entering a learning context?