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Presence-Based Coaching
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Presence-Based Coaching

by Doug Silsbee
November 2008
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
320 pages
7h 10m
English
Jossey-Bass
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Introduction
We work on ourselves in order to help others, and also we help others in order to work on ourselves.
 
Pema Chödrön
 
 
 
MANY YEARS AGO, I FACED A SIGNIFICANT PROFESSIONAL challenge. I was about to fly overseas to teach a ten-day seminar to a group of Latin American professors at a prestigious business school. It was early in my career, and I was terrified. I was positive that the participants in the seminar would be smarter than me, more knowledgeable about the subject matter, skeptical, resistant, and questioning of my competence.
I spoke with my mentor the day before I left. He saw capacities in me that I was not yet able to see in myself. He calmly reminded me of indisputable evidence about my competence, ability to design, and ...
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