Intuition In Coaching

I hugely enjoyed undertaking an MA in coaching at the University of Chester. The work-based learning approach ‘suited me down to the ground’. It enabled me to create a lot of learning activities for myself; for example, running some coaching workshops in order to test my ideas.

A significant part of the degree was the dissertation.  The topic I chose was, ‘Intuition in Coaching’. With the encouragement of my excellent academic supervisor, Tim Roberts,  I decided to rework this material into a book. It has been the core of presentations I have made for the Association for Coaching and the European Mentoring and Coaching Council.

Contents:

• A Bovine Beginning
• Preface
  Research Rationale
  Research Practice
• Introduction
  Defining Intuition
  An Experiment
• Intuition in the Helping Professions
  Creating a Vision
  Trust
  Clarity
  Openness
  Distinguishing Between the What, the How and the Whether
  Having Clear Ethical Standards
• Intuition in Coaching
  Case Studies
• Other Aspects of Intuition in Coaching
  Supervision
  Using Intuition on Self
  Use of Symbols
  Resistance
  Silence
• Overview Model
  Client's Communication
  Coach's Attention
  Coach's Intervention
  Client's Learning
  Coach's Learning
  Organisational Context
  Philosophical and Historical Context
• Conclusion
  Rules of Thumb