CHAPTER 8
The Teacher
Believe those who are seeking the truth. Doubt those who find it.
André Gide
Margaret Fuller
Roger Schwarz
THE TEACHER IS THE SECOND OF THE THREE VOICES that I describe as “sharpeners” of the client’s responses to the Investigator’s three areas of questioning. The very legitimacy of teaching in a coaching context is sometimes a topic of fierce debate; some schools of thought maintain that coaching is inherently and exclusively a questioning process and that teaching is not part of the a role. I disagree.
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