Piercing the Armor: Professional Coaching and Vulnerability

A very controversial (and some would say “mad”) psychoanalyst, Wilhelm Reich, provided a very insightful observation about the “Character Armor” that some of us wear as a way to protect against vulnerability. 
  • Posted by Bill Bergquist
  • On January 15, 2018
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Life as Lottery: Regret

What about the men and women we coach? What role does regret, the avoidance of regret, and post-regret decisions and actions play in their lives and work?
  • Posted by Bill Bergquist
  • On September 12, 2017
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Coaching to the Head Winds and Tail Winds

An insightful metaphor regarding the extent to which we focus on the tail winds that move us forward toward desired goals and the head winds that push against us and slow down or hinder our accomplishment of desired goals.
  • Posted by Bill Bergquist
  • On June 26, 2017
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The Terrain of Organizational and Executive Coaching

In the eighth issue of this digital magazine we focused on Personal and Life Coaching – the one-on-one coaching that so clearly defined the field during its earliest years (in the 1970s and 1980s) and that still is the major player in the arena of professional coaching. In this issue, we turn to a parallel […]
  • Posted by Bill Bergquist
  • On January 27, 2017
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Psychological Contract or Covenant: The Coaching Challenges

I summarize Schein’s concept of psychological contract, relate it to workplace motivation, and introduce psychological covenant as an even deeper aspect of a client’s lingering concern about the worth assigned to her work and the way in which she justifies her commitment to long hours of labor in her organization.
  • Posted by Bill Bergquist
  • On July 1, 2016
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A Developmental Perspective in Coaching

The author and other members of the Hudson Institute are able to appreciate the diversity and richness of multidimensional roots and the value of a broad pool of theoretical orientations informing this burgeoning field of coaching
  • Posted by Pamela McLean
  • On June 24, 2016
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The Terrain of Personal and Life Coaching

This is the first of two connected issues on coaching.  We have written about the “terrain” of coaching and the various charted and uncharted parts of our profession, encouraging continued exploration and explanation of the whole and the pieces (like effective contracting, establishing trust, methods and perspectives, how to measure outcomes or starting points). There’s […]
  • Posted by Bill Bergquist
  • On June 23, 2016
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Ten Trends in Personal/Life Coaching

Rather than reflecting on where the state of personal and life coaching are right now, we are looking at trending that has been done over the past five years and projecting these trends forward.
  • Posted by David Skibbins
  • On June 9, 2016
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