FRITZ PERLS ON COACHING

Fritz Perls lived long before the Era of Coaching. It was Tim Gallwey who is credited with launching “coaching” as we now think about it with his 1972 book, The Inner Game of Tennis. So if 1972 is t he launch date of Coaching, and Fritz Perls died in January of 1970, then he lived and died before the Era of Coaching began. And yet ...

And yet surprisingly (or not) what he wrote in his last book contains foundational ideas that today fit the field of coaching. Now that book was transcribed in 1972 by non-other than 21-year old Richard Bandler which he wrote down from audio-tapes that were sent to Robert Spitzer after Perls’ death. Yet what he wrote in that book provides many of the ideas that today we embrace as the foundation of “Coaching.”