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Styles of Coaching
1. Psychodynamic Coaching
Psychodynamic coaching explores how past experiences, such as our stories of home, growing up, relationships, and work, shape our current behavior and emotions. By isolating and examining thoughts, feelings, sensations, and actions, individuals can gain clarity on cause and effect, which helps in managing anxiety and confusion. This approach emphasizes introspection, aiming to foster better self-understanding, dispassionate observation, and thoughtful reflection, ultimately providing better control over feelings, thoughts, and actions. This coaching style is ideal for those who value deep self-exploration to understand their motivations and behaviors.
2. Cognitive Coaching
Cognitive coaching focuses on how our thinking patterns affect our behavior. It addresses faulty thinking (e.g., mind reading, fortune telling), wrong assumptions (e.g., perfectionism, all-or-nothing thinking), and unhelpful beliefs (e.g., blame, guilt, imposter syndrome). This approach uses structured models like SPACE, CLARITY, and ABCDEF to transition from Performance Inhibiting Thinking (PIT) to Performance Enhancement Thinking (PET). It combines thinking with action, offering a future-oriented and goal-focused method that is easily adaptable for self-coaching and team environments.
3. Solution-Focused Coaching
Solution-focused coaching centers on present actions and future goals rather than past problems. It emphasizes practical solutions over theoretical understanding. Coaches facilitate the process by asking insightful questions and helping clients explore different options for achieving their goals. Models like PEEP and MAPS support this approach, encouraging clients to set and measure their progress and experiment with practical solutions. This method is used for skill development, performance enhancement, and personal growth, promoting self-directed learning.
4. Person-Centered Coaching
Person-centered coaching prioritizes the client’s autonomy, with the coach listening empathetically and supporting the client without directing or advising. This approach, grounded in Self-Determination Theory, believes that individuals will grow and thrive given the right support and empathy. The coach’s role is to echo the client’s inner voice, helping them clarify their thoughts and feelings. This style is characterized by therapeutic, empathetic listening, fostering a safe space for clients to express themselves and explore their goals.
5. Gestalt Coaching
Gestalt coaching focuses on the here-and-now, helping individuals recognize and update old patterns with new, constructive ones. It involves scanning for awareness, taking action, making contact, resolving issues, and withdrawal. The emphasis is on understanding current perceptions and behaviors, rather than delving into past experiences. This approach helps close unfinished business and manage bottled-up feelings, promoting immediate awareness and practical changes without treating individuals as needing therapy.
6. Existential Coaching
Existential coaching is useful during life crises or significant changes, focusing on exploring and discovering one’s existence rather than fixing problems. It examines the flexible nature of self-identity and how individuals relate to the world. This coaching style emphasizes being over doing, helping clients describe their experiences and cope with uncertainties. It is ideal for those seeking to understand their place in the world and navigate life transitions.
7. Ontological Coaching
Ontological coaching examines the interplay between language, emotions, and body, which influences behavior and results. It aims to transform these areas to enhance quality of life. This approach links with the SCARF model, addressing status, certainty, autonomy, relatedness, and fairness. It promotes deep learning and constructive change through awareness and choice, fostering trust, and a profound understanding of one’s identity and outcomes.
8. Narrative Coaching
Narrative coaching involves understanding and re-authoring personal stories. It helps individuals reflect on their past, examine new perspectives, and consider future possibilities. This approach focuses on describing experiences rather than analyzing them, aiming to shift faulty logic and old beliefs. Coaches facilitate this process by being fully present and encouraging clients to generate new narratives, fostering self-awareness and personal growth.
9. Psychological Development Coaching
Psychological development coaching supports growth through different stages, from dependent to independent, and finally to inter-dependent. It helps clients develop within each stage and transition to the next, focusing on mastering basic skills before advancing to more complex ones. This approach promotes self-managed and self-fulfilling behaviors, encouraging continuous personal development.
10. Transpersonal Coaching
Transpersonal coaching integrates body, mind, and spirit, addressing unconscious processes to resolve issues and foster holistic development. It involves working with physical health, mental performance, emotions, unconscious aspects, relationships, and spiritual dimensions. This approach facilitates deep transformation, enabling clients to transcend limiting beliefs and adopt new, resourceful ways of being.
Each coaching style offers unique benefits and is suited to different needs and preferences. Coaches may select or combine these approaches to best support their clients’ goals and development.
Styles And Models Of Coaching Part 1
https://thinkingfeelingbeing.com/2024/07/08/styles-and-models-of-coaching-part-1/
Styles And Models Of Coaching Part 2
https://thinkingfeelingbeing.com/2024/07/08/styles-and-models-of-coaching-part-2/
Styles And Models Of Coaching Part 3
https://thinkingfeelingbeing.com/2024/07/08/styles-and-models-of-coaching-part-3/
Resources
https://www.thinkingfeelingbeing.com/clientresources/
