THE COLLABORATIVE GROWTH COACHING PROCESS FOR RESPONSIVE AWARENESS
Responsive awareness is an important capacity for coaches to encourage their clients to explore and develop throughout the coaching relationship. Understanding why this is so requires that we consider the fundamental purpose of coaching.
Since our species first emerged on the planet, human beings have enjoyed whatever degree of freedom and comfort we achieved because of our ability to succeed at two things: (1) our ability to adapt to changes we cannot control and (2) our ability to cause the kinds of change that we desire. These can only be accomplished by learning—that is, imagining new conditions in the physical world, attempting new behaviors to bring those conditions ...