CHAPTER 5
Holding
Believing in people before they have proved themselves is the key to motivating people to reach their potential.
 
John C. Maxwell
 
 
 
ORIENTING INVITES A DIFFERENT AND MORE RESOURCEFUL perspective and is conducive to presence. Holding maintains this presence, and extends it toward the client. We can establish and hold a relational field of awareness that includes the client.
This chapter derives from orienting and takes it a step further. It is through holding that we maintain our presence in the conversation and invite the client to experience presence as well.
HOLDING MOVES
The relational field
• Sensing the field
• Sensing qualities in the field
• Extending qualities into the field
Silence and possibility
• Holding the certainty ...

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