Coaching with Spirit

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Summary: Superb!!!!!!
Review: Thank you Teri! This rich and insightful information that you share in Coaching With Spirit is truly resonating with me.
Once I started reading your book, I literally was able to "feel" and begin to integrate what you had written.
Your reflective questions and superb coaching examples provides us readers with excellent tools for tapping into true essence;a creative process unfolding.
I am grateful for the opportunity to enroll in your coaching program in the near future, to continue my life journey.

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Summary: Groundbreaking Ideas by an Interesting Writer
Review: The promise of "Coaching with Spirit" is profound. The words dance and glow. This is breakthrough, groundbreaking thinking presented with great clarity. Valuable, essential information for anyone who chooses to excel and serve as coach, facilitator or manager. Teri-e shares her expertise, garnered over many years, about how to tune in to self, other, the present moment, to listen to our intuition and flow with what's happening.

I'm one of the Coaches who supplied a client story for Teri-E's book. Curious about how she had incorporated it into the bigger picture, I found myself so engrossed that I forgot to skip ahead and look for my entry. As I kept on reading I marveled at the vast knowledge being shared. No matter how much experience you have, expect to learn something new and useful.

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Summary: Groundbreaking Ideas by an Interesting Writer
Review: The promise of "Coaching with Spirit" is profound. The words dance and glow. This is breakthrough, groundbreaking thinking presented with great clarity. Valuable, essential information for anyone who chooses to excel and serve as coach, facilitator or manager. Teri-e shares her expertise, garnered over many years, about how to tune in to self, other, the present moment, to listen to our intuition and flow with what's happening.

I'm one of the Coaches who supplied a client story for Teri-E's book. Curious about how she had incorporated it into the bigger picture, I found myself so engrossed that I forgot to skip ahead and look for my entry. As I kept on reading I marveled at the vast knowledge being shared. No matter how much experience you have, expect to learn something new and useful.

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Summary: A different perspective
Review: The review from Cathy misinterprets the phrase, 'accepting clients unconditionally.' I am the strongest advocate for avoiding bogus feedback, having published an article to this very point. www.successunlimitednet.com/articles.
I train coaches to provide acKNOWledgement that offers clients a chance to KNOW themselves better, not feel good, or bad. Feeling is not relevant to acknowledgement.
Furthermore the reviewer mispells my name twice and that is consistant with her review. Apparently she skipped large sections and details that would have clarified my perspective. I value different opinions, not inaccurate representations.

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Summary: Coaching Bliss
Review: This book is pure coaching bliss. I am a new spiritual coach and I found this book to be the perfect step to my next level as a coach. The wonderful passages about being quiet and allowing spirit in were very important for me. The many examples of real coaching experiences allowed me to understand how to invite spirit in. This book can't help but shift the way we coach, I reached a new level of joy just reading it and I know my coaching has shifted as a result. Open your heart to this extraordinary book.

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Summary: Coaching Bliss
Review: This book is pure coaching bliss. I am a new spiritual coach and I found this book to be the perfect step to my next level as a coach. The wonderful passages about being quiet and allowing spirit in were very important for me. The many examples of real coaching experiences allowed me to understand how to invite spirit in. This book can't help but shift the way we coach, I reached a new level of joy just reading it and I know my coaching has shifted as a result. Open your heart to this extraordinary book.

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Summary: Coaching With Spirit
Review: This is a long awaited dimension in the coaching profession. The emergence of Spirit unfolds as a masterful inquiry into how we are awakened from a restricted vision of possibility to a larger purpose for our lives. Belf encompasses the wealth of her own experience with the contributions of other success coaches and invites higher wisdom to lead the way with clear explantions, self assessment tools and the "how to"of coaching with Spirit. This is a most valuable resourse for any coach willing to call forth the spiritual awareness that will move clients into soulful action. A remarkable testimony to the limitless energy of Spirit.

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Summary: Coaching 101 from a script
Review: While other reviewers claim to find new and exciting ideas here, I don't see anything new about connecting to oneself, taking responsibility and being present with the client. If you hang around enough coaching and coach-the-coach websites, you'll hear these ideas...over and over again.

I did find a few ideas, such as listening to your body as you coach.A feeling of heaviness might mean that the client is not right for you. I also believe that coaches can pick up signals from the client and take risks to preserve honesty.

Three points seemed to be of concern. First, the theme of the book is "coaching with spirit," yet "spirit" is not critical to most of her points.

Second, the author needs to understand the psychological foundations of her recommendations. "Accepting clients unconditionally" so they'll blossom sounds remarkably like transference in psychoanalysis (I just reviewed Psychology of the Sopranos!) and should be administered with care. I once worked with a coach who kept saying, "You're doing great! You're wonderful!" As I found myself heading for disaster, I finally realized she was offering not feedback, but meaningless "encouragement." I finally asked, "If I said I were going to rob a bank, you'd say, 'That's great,' wouldn't you?" She agreed and I terminated "coaching" right away.

While the author, like so many coaches, compares her services to those of an athletic coach, let's remember that athletic coaches do not accept their clients "unconditionally." They're forever making corrections and challenging them to move forward (except, of course, for those who follow Gallowey's The Inner Game of Tennis -- but even there they issue directions).

Third, there's nothing unique about "marketing with spirit." The author's examples show she's a great salesperson, spirit or no spirit. She calls someone to identify herself as a "success coach." When the potential client says, "No thanks, I'm successful," Bell asks about success in balancing her life. That, folks, is great sales technique.

Ultimately, Bell's book reflects the dilemma of coaching: is coaching more like therapy than therapy? Bell writes about a successful client who wants to change careers. They spend hours reviewing his life, values and goals. Great for the therapist and perhaps the rare client who wants to do this. However, I find many clients want to move fast and most of them really know what they want if you probe a little. A detailed life analysis is great for the coach's bank account but not necessarily for the client.

True, the book offers some thoughts on spirituality. However, I don't think it's that easy. If you want to be "spiritual" in your life and practice, do what Carolyn Myss has done: study intensely from the sources. The spiritual path is not an easy one and it's not a road to material success. If you want to introduce spirituality into coaching, get the real thing!

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Summary: Resonance and Wow!
Review: With each page, I felt an inner connection. an inner knowing and yet an Aha!- a sense of discovery- embracing paradox, so characteristic of encounter with spirit.

Just reading the book enabled me to feel the presence of spirit on numerous occasions. A wonderful creation out of partnership with God. Deeply practical and delightfully lofty.