Coaching with Spirit: Allowing Success to Emerge

by Teri-E Belf

Overview

Coaching with Spirit is an uncommon resource that shows you how to enhance your effectiveness by integrating spirituality into your professional interactions with clients. Written for coaches and managers-of all types and levels of expertise-this book is not a primer on spirituality but rather it is a guide that suggests practical ways you can get into "the zone" and welcome Spirit into your coaching business. Author Teri-E Belf outlines a plan of action for breathing new life into your coaching style and provides the guide you need to perform the following CPR on your coaching business:
* Connection— increase connection with yourself, your client, and the whole
* Present— be fully available in the present moment
* Responsible— able to respond and be accountable for your choices

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780787960483
Publisher:	Wiley
Publication date:	07/29/2002
Pages:	320
Product dimensions:	7.26(w) x 9.80(h) x 1.14(d)

About the Author

Terri-E Belf— coach, coach trainer, speaker, and author— is the founder of SUN (Success Unlimited Networkâ), and ICF-accredited coach training school, and a coaching community comprised of coaching professionals committed to their spiritual practice.

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Table of Contents

Foreword xi

Preface xvii

Acknowledgments xxi

Introduction 1

Chapter 1: The Relationship Between Coaching and Spirituality 11

Chapter 2: Connection with Self 27

Chapter 3: Connection with the Client 51

Chapter 4: Connection with the Whole 73

Chapter 5: The Present Moment 97

Chapter 6: Responsibility 121

Chapter 7: Marketing Coaching with Spiritual Fluidity 151

Chapter 8: Executive Coaching with Spirit 169

Chapter 9: International Coaching with Spirit 199

Chapter 10: Coach Leader Perspectives on Coaching with Spirit 213

Chapter 11: Fanning the Embers of Client Transformation 231

Chapter 12: Stoking the Fire: Coaching with Spirit Learning Communities 243

Epilogue: What's Next? The Space for Coaching 253

Appendix: Coaching with Spirit Assessment 257

Bibliography 267

About the Author 271

About the Contributors 273

Index 287

Editorial Reviews

Coaching with Spirit helps managers and coaches enhance their effectiveness as leaders by providing them with the tools to help them bring "Spirit" into their coaching technique. Belf, a coach trainer and the founder of a coach training school, teaches how to create a plan of action for breathing new life into old coaching styles. Coaching with Spirit shows how to develop the intuitive aspect of a coaching style using Belf's reflections and suggestions for practical applications. Copyright (c) 2003 Soundview Executive Book Summaries

Soundview Executive Book Summaries

Written for coaches and managers, this book offers advice on developing the spiritual aspect of their work, emphasizing spiritual growth and self- discovery. It includes illustrative interviews and stories from coaches and clients. It also provides exercises, activities, and points of reflection to help use the techniques outlined. Belf is a coaching consultant. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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