Resources

Resources: Using Type While Coaching

Pam Fox Rollin of IdeaShape hosts a monthly Special Interest Group (SIG) call on Type Coaching. This month, Pam invited me to speak about Shifting Perspective Using Type. In our hour-long call, I highlighted the ICF Coaching Competencies we use when we use Type to shift perspective, identified what the client gets, highlighted the advantages of coach awareness of self in order to serve the client, provided several examples of how I have used Type to shift perspective, and then thanks to another member of the SIG, provided a 5 minute coaching demonstration using Type to shift perspective. I then listed some possible resources for using Type to shift perspective, answered questions, and gave a brief summary.

Some of the resources I highlighted include:

  • Otto Kroeger Associates: great source of workshops and books on Type
  • Personality Pages: interesting collection of free materials on Type
  • Live Light: Simple Steps: 52 weeks of meditations and inquiries designed to appeal across Type while shifting perspective
  • DK’s book, Coaching Successfully: great introduction to coaching skills for supervisors
  • Byron Katie’s book Loving What Is: Four Questions that Can Change Your Life: specific technique to use to enable self or client to consider whether perspective might be changed or shifted

    I continue to find Type a useful tool for better self-knowledge, leading to better self-management, as well as a framework I can use as I listen to my clients and think about what their perspective is. If you’re interested in becoming certified to use Type, contact CPP.

    If you’d like to know your own Type for your own or your team’s success, contact me at 703-297-2224 or email me for your individualized Type Assessment.

    *MBTI, Myers-Briggs, and the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator are registered trademarks of the MBTI Trust, Inc. in the United States and other countries.

The Great Unknown

Getting nothing but static, getting nothing but static.
Static filling my attic from Channel Z
I don’t know—I feel like something’s happening
Something good is happening!
~ Channel Z – The B-52s

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What is the Great Unknown? That’s a trick question, right? If we knew what the Great Unknown was, it wouldn’t be unknown! True. At the same time, we do know that the Great Unknown is simply a function of time. Time reveals all. What do we do and be in the interim?

We recognize we are in the time just before the unknown becomes known. In this time, we are in a dual state of being. We feel as if our heads are filled with static. So many possibilities! No idea which way to turn! Stops and starts over and over again! We also feel that something good is happening. We are excited. We feel our energy shifting. We see openings where before we thought there were none.

What do we do with our recognition? Not much. There really isn’t much for us to do except hang on for the ride, leave ourselves open to transformation, and trust that all is exactly as it should be. Even, perhaps especially, when we don’t feel like it.

Want a partner in navigating that time before entering the Great Unknown? Call me at 703-297-2224 or email me!

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