Coaching with Spirit (Hardcover)

by Teri-E Belf (Author) "Please rate yourself on the extent to which you coach with Spirit..." (more)
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Learn to Coach with Your Spirit This book helps readers increase their awareness and personal responsibility using a process that defines both spiritual growth and self-discovery through coaching. As the author explains, coaching with Spirit is an integrative, intuitive, creative, and trustful connection and those that coach with Spirit are better able to serve their clients by helping them obtain desired results and increase well-being. Throughout the book, Teri-E Belf, named as one of the ten most influential coaches by readers of Professional Coach magazine, suggests helpful methods for integrating Spirit into coaching practices, presents reflections and applications for both beginning and seasoned coaches, and shows how to increase communications skills. The book includes myriad exercises, activities, points for reflection, assessments, tools, and techniques for learning to coach with Spirit.

From the Inside Flap
"We are not human beings having a Spiritual experience. We are Spiritual beings having a human experience."— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

Few would argue with Chardin's profound statement but the question is:
How can you tap into the potential of your Spirit in your role as a professional?

Coaching with Spirit is an uncommon resource that shows you how to enhance your effectiveness by integrating spirituality into your professional interactions with clients. Written for coaches and managers— of all types and levels of expertise— this book is not a primer on spirituality but rather it is a guide that suggests practical ways you can get into "the zone" and welcome Spirit into your coaching business. Author Teri-E Belf outlines a plan of action for breathing new life into your coaching style and provides the guide you need to perform the following CPR on your coaching business:

• Connection— increase connection with yourself, your client, and the whole
• Present— be fully available in the present moment
• Responsible— able to respond and be accountable for your choices

Coaching with Spirit clearly shows how to develop the intuitive aspect of your coaching style and is filled with illustrative interviews and stories from coaches, coach leaders, executive coaches, coaches, and clients. Explore three key spiritual principles, exemplified in the concrete examples of when Spirit is present in a myriad coaching situations. Transform your coaching using the reflections and suggestions for practical applications.

By using Coaching with Spirit as your guide, you can learn to increase your awareness and become a coach that is integrative, intuitive, creative, and allow you and your client's success to emerge.

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Product Details

• Hardcover: 297 pages
• Publisher: Pfeiffer; 1st edition (July 15, 2002)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0787960489
• ISBN-13: 978-0787960483
• Product Dimensions: 8.7 x 7 x 1.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars See all reviews (22 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #56,940 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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12 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A MUST read for coaches., August 13, 2002

By	Julia K. Shows (Greenbelt, MD USA) - See all my reviews

In her book "Coaching With Spirit," Teri-E Belf asks the question "Do you hear a calling to be of service as a coach or to become a better coach?" If your answer is Yes, than this book is a must read.
Through her unique conversational way of writing, Belf inspires us to look at the why, where and how Spirit enhances the coaching process. To support her premise that Spirit is essential in coaching, she shares with us not only her personal stories and experiences as a master coach, but also relates the stories and experiences of other coaches, coach leaders and clients as they experience Spirit in their coaching.
Belf organizes her book around three clear principles:
1) connection with self, clients and the whole 2)living in the present moment and 3) taking responsibility for our choices. Each chapter is filled with practical examples, worksheets and actions that allow the reader to learn and grow as they move through the steps of integrating and enhancing their awareness of Spirit. Through assessments, reflections and case studies, she guides us to a safe space that allows us to observe our own Spirit.
Reading her book is like sitting down with the leaders of the coaching profession and eavesdropping as they openly share from their hearts about Spirit and how it enhances their mastery as a coach. As you read this book you are surrounded and inspired by Spirit.
If you are looking for practical steps and in-spirit-ational stories to take your coaching practice to the next level. Enjoy! You are in for a treat.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars A beginner's book , November 26, 2007

By	Lynne Fidler "Elle" - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

Coaching with Spirit is a mix of entries from coaches. If you are on a journey to coach with help from a spirit, maybe start here, but definitely continue on in your search. Two reviewers, Ms. Gagne and Ms. Schuler are contributors in the book, so maybe a little biased giving their five star reviews. I'm curious as to why they are submitting reviews five years after the book is released. Perhaps to counter the critical reviews they received.

At any rate, the book is lightweight in content. Hopefully, I don't have any misspellings in my review, since based on a previous reviewer, the author can have a critical spirit. She apparently has since deleted the review.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Coaching with Spirit, September 1, 2002

By	Kevin G. Donaleski (Alexandria, VA USA) - See all my reviews

As a Certified Professional Life Coach, many of my clients are seaching for something, that something that they discover is Spirit -- spiritual connection. For many of them, it is the missing piece in their achieving a new level of success and finding harmony in their lives. Ms. Belf's book captures the elements of Coaching with Spirit and guides the coach in how to enable their client to reach that Spiritual connection. It is a well written and very helpful book that I intend to use in my coaching practice.