AC108 The ICA Coaching Process (4)-Reflection on this session

Moderator- Sherry Read

March 04, I attended the ICA Course AC108-Part 4, Coaching Process and I would like to share what I have learned during the session:

Just like our reading material said: Coaching uses a process of inquiry and personal discovery to build the client’s level of awareness and responsibility, as well as provide the client with structure, support and effective feedback. Essentially, coaching is a process of discovery, goal-setting and strategic action that leads to extraordinary outcomes.

I would like to share what I have learned from this teleclass as the followings:Using one word to describe the “Coaching Process”: Partnership/Joy/Embracing/Journey/Curiosity/Knowledge/Sounding Board/Resource…etc, this is what the moderator asked during this session which did make me think a lot.

The ICA Coaching Process:
The Gap –
The Beginning –
Honeymoon Phase –
The Journey –
Peaks and Valleys –
The Quitting Zone –
The Goal –
UACs: Underlying Automatic Commitments

These are the commitments we have made in our lives that play in the background of everything we do. We may or may not be aware of them. Whatever a person is committed to, they will create, even if they are not consciously aware of that commitment. Finding out what beliefs or judgments tend to impede progress is what coaching effectively is all about.

A skilled coach is like a master craftsperson working on a
large project. Their real skill is not just in using tools, but in knowing what tool to use at each
stage of a process and as each eventuality arises.