THINKING THROUGH HOW TO INTERVENE

Interventions— let me count the ways. There are dozens, even hundreds of interventions. An intervention is a tool for solving a problem, and in the case of coaching— a human problem. It is as way to facilitate coaching a solution to a person’s desires and wants and to a person’s blocks and interferences. Now the thing about human problems is that they are multi-factorial, multi- dimensional, systemic, and always unique to each person. In addition to all of the ways to think through how to intervene in the previous two articles, here are some additional recommendations for conceptualizing how to choose an intervention.