DOES YOUR CLIENT TAKE YOU HOME?

DOES YOUR CLIENT TAKE YOU HOME?

How strange is that question in the title? And yet, that’s what occurs when you consider what happens when you watch an expert coach conduct a session, especially in wrapping it up. The client takes the coach and the coaching home with him or her. That is, the way the skillful coach induces the client into the coaching experience and then establishes tasks enables the client to take the coach home with him. Then during the next week, the client constantly thinks about the coach, the coaching, the task, and what he will report back. It is as if the session had not stopped but continued in everyday life.

Here then is a challenge for you as a Meta-Coach. The next time you see a client on a continuing session, ask your client, “How often do you think about me and our sessions together?” “How often in a day do you think about what we covered in the session and/or act in a way congruent with the coaching?”