
In 2011, I completed modules 1 and 2 of Doug Silsbee’s Presence-Based® Coaching program. Both were three-day intensive retreats with two follow-up training and integration calls.
This coaching model and the skills I learned integrated beautifully with my initial coach training, Coaching for Transformation, and my NVC training.
About the Presence-Based® Coaching Program*
The Presence-Based® Coaching Course is a two-part program. The course provides coaching and change professionals with a pragmatic toolkit for accelerating your own development and that of your leader clients. We focus on building and extending our own presence, and on specific coaching moves and models that awaken and support long-term efficacy in our clients. The program leads clients towards greater resilience, efficacy, choice, aliveness, and leadership presence.
Part I: Being a Development Partner
The focus of Part I: Being a Development Partner is on the presence of the practitioner and primarily based on the book The Mindful Coach.
Specific Areas of Learning Focus for PBC I:
- Distinguishing somatic, emotional, and cognitive awareness
- Working with your own habits, attachments, and aversions as a coach
- Cultivating and holding a mindful presence in a coaching partnership
- Distinguishing and coaching through seven distinct roles
- Framing artful questions for catalyzing awareness, defining outcomes, and mapping a plan of action
- Working with metaphors and distinctions
- Designing body practices and self-observations
- Building an integrated development plan
Part II: Being a Development Partner
The focus of Part II: Evoking Self-Generation is on evoking presence and resilience in your coaching clients and working with somatic and language-based coaching methods. It is primarily based on the book Presence-Based Coaching.
Specific Areas of Learning Focus for PBC II:
- Experiencing a model for building presence and resilience together with specific professional competencies
- Evoking the direct experience of presence with clients
- Engaging psychobiology in service to long-term development
- Supporting clients in recognizing and shifting embodied habits
- Integrating somatic and question-based coaching processes
- Increasing your own capacity for holding a field of presence with your clients
- Working with polarities in coaching competencies and in client content
- Designing integrative application fieldwork and practices
- *Source: presencebasedcoaching.com
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