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Presence-Based Coaching: Cultivating Self-Generative Leaders Through Mind, Body, and Heart (Hardcover)

by Doug Silsbee (Author)
Key Phrases: touching your heart, habit loop, generative practices, Development Partner, Push Hands, Inviting Roger (more...)

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Presence-Based Coaching offers coaches a hands-on resource for developing the capacities and skills needed to be reliably present in all situations, and shows how to let go of habitual—and often ineffective—ways of responding. As author and leadership expert Doug Silsbee explains, once a coach has mastered the inner moves of directing their own attention, they can work to develop the same capability in their clients. The ability of a coach to facilitate lasting, sustainable development in leaders rests on the presence a coach offers to the coach-client relationship.

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Presence-Based CoachingEffective coaches, like effective leaders, must have the ability to motivate others, grasp complex issues, act with purpose, and provide a compass for others to follow. What is the essential quality that makes coaches and leaders more resilient, resourceful, and authentic?Presence-Based Coaching offers coaches a hands-on resource for developing the capacities and skills needed to be reliably present in all situations, and shows how to let go of habitual—and often ineffective—ways of responding. As author and leadership expert Doug Silsbee explains, once a coach has mastered the inner moves of directing their own attention, they can work to develop the same capability in their clients. The ability of a coach to facilitate lasting, sustainable development in leaders rests on the presence a coach offers to the coach-client relationship.This groundbreaking and practical book shows coaches specifically how to develop the quality of presence within themselves and how to enhance their coaching by cultivating it in others. Silsbee examines presence as an essential element in human learning and development and maps out a comprehensive approach to accelerating and deepening the development process. Step by step, he provides concrete and practical tools for building presence, and includes the tools for accessing and using presence in order to coach leaders to become whole, authentic, and self-generative.Filled with illustrative examples and tested practices organized around mind, body, and heart, Presence-Based Coaching helps to cultivate the capacity to be fully alive, resourceful, and connected to ourselves, our people, and our environment.

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Hardcover: 320 pages
Publisher: Jossey-Bass; New edition (November 17, 2008)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0470325097
ISBN-13: 978-0470325094
Product Dimensions: 9 x 6.2 x 1 inches
Shipping Weight: 1.3 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)

Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (10 customer reviews)

Amazon.com Sales Rank: #278,339 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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touching your heart, habit loop, generative practices, relational moves, coaching moves, presence pause, versus sensing, developmental coaching, coaching outcomes, coaching conversation, inner moves, developmental impulse, relational field, reorganization move, somatic awareness, present moment experience

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Development Partner, Push Hands, Inviting Roger, North Carolina, Albert Schweitzer

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5.0 out of 5 stars Superb Book, March 24, 2009

By	Dale R. Schwarz (Sunderland, MA USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

Doug Silsbee's book Presence-Based Coaching is a significant contribution to the field of coaching and valuable for anyone wanting to enhance their ability to become more present in their life and work. Through simple, yet profound practices Doug guides readers through understanding and most importantly experiencing presence as the book unfolds. He has artfully brought the ancient wisdom of mindfulness, meditation and body awareness and applied these practices to coaching. He carefully describes presence in all it's subtleties through illustrative client examples, showing how connecting with body awareness and meditation practices and other practices can bring us into presence.

As a coach, long time meditator and student of body work, I found this book valuable as a way to fine tune my practices, therefore I think it is a useful for practitioners of all levels, as well as those for whom this approach is new. This is a book that I will refer to time and time again to deepen my work with my clients.

Dale Schwarz, coach and co-author of Facilitative Coaching: A toolkit for expanding your repertoire and achieving lasting results.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Deb Denis, Professional Coach, February 4, 2009

By	Deb Denis "Professional Coach" (Outside Philadelphia, PA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

In his first book, THE MINDFUL COACH, Doug Silsbee provides an invaluable guide to help the coach focus their active listening and powerful questioning skills in service to their clients. It was and remains an incredibly powerful resource for me in my own practice.

Now Doug has done it again. With PRESENCE-BASED COACHING, Doug has published a must-read for any Professional Coach who wants to take their practice to the next level. Providing simple yet incredibly powerful exercises, Silsbee's coaching moves are powerful tools for your own development as well as your clients'. Doug has written this book to help you, the coach, be more present with your client -- involved, listening on all levels, engaged and authentic. Doug provides guidance to help you, as coach, cultivate this level of engagement in others.

Crazy-busy? Bringing presence into your work and life can help you focus so that you are better able to tap into that rich data pool around you and put it in service to your clients, your family, yourself and others. Doug helps you engage with your whole self--mind, body and heart. If it's time to take your coaching to a deeper level then this book is for you.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Tap into your purpose, December 14, 2008

By	Kevin M. Zachery "Bravo Zulu Consulting, LLC" (Annapolis, MD) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

I love Doug's book because it provides such a wonderful guide for helping me stay in touch with why I am a coach and consultant. I do this work because I want to help people live more powerful, playful, and passionate lives. In those moments when my own internal dialogue threatens to get in the way of my effectiveness, I now have a way to reconnect with my inner source of power and refocus my attention on making a difference for my clients. Doug's book has actually allowed me to feel more at ease during the coaching process. I do not worry as much about "doing a good job" or "providing value." Instead, I center and let my inner purpose be the source of my contribution. Putting the elements of Presence-Based Coaching into practice will not only help you become a more effective coach or leader, it will help any relationship flourish.

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