A huge portion of coaching’s power comes from clients intentionally making declarations, a deliberate stepping out from reacting to life, from one incident to another.

[One of the elements of conducting a conversation with a client is] refraining from making judgments about what our conversational partner says and, instead, expressing respectful curiosity for whatever is brought up.

Perhaps you have already made the step in seeing that a large number of coaching issues that clients bring are addressable and resolvable by the client becoming skillful in speaking and listening.

In enrollment, both the client and the coach make explicit what they are committed to accomplishing in the coaching program.

The principle of coaching is to provide language and practice that alter the structure of interpretation of the client.