What is coaching?

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Many still do not understand what a coach is. What is Coach's work based on? And how does it help to achieve your goals? ❓

I suggest returning to the origins, to the history of the emergence of the coach

Coaching is the art of asking questions❗️

The ancient Greek philosopher Socrates, 2.5 thousand years ago, invented a special way of conversation based on questions.

Socrates believed that all decisions are already in the head of the interlocutor, the task of the teacher is only to pull this knowledge to the surface. Naturally, all this was done precisely through questions.

One of the founders of the modern education system, a 19th-century German teacher, Adolf Disterweg said: “A bad teacher brings truth, a good teacher teaches you to find it.”

The Austrian psychologist Alfred Adler developed the concept that values, goals and the desire for self-fulfillment drive a person.

According to Adler, a person is first of all a conscious creature that defines itself in life through freedom of choice, the meaning of life and the desire for self-realization.

The main obstacle to the self-realization of a person is a basic sense of inferiority, complexes that are laid up to 6 years, overcoming which consists of further personal development.

"Couch" - a word of Hungarian origin, gained distribution in England in the sixteenth century, meaning "wagon".

In the second half of the nineteenth century, English students called private tutors. In the English-Russian dictionary of the 1977 edition of the publishing house "Russian Language" compiled by O.P. Benyukh and G.V. Chernov interprets the translation of the word "soash" (coach) in two versions:

1. Wagon, carriage, crew (English); -bus (tourist and long-distance) (Amer.); -car (as part of a train);

2. The trainer; instructor, mentor. The concept of "coaching" (coaching) is translated by the authors: - to train, instruct.

Coaching came from individual mentoring. There was a master who took a student and led him to some kind of result, passed on his experience, taught, instructed. Later, this phenomenon grew into the institute of advisers. Every king, shah, prince, etc. was an adviser with knowledge in any field. This phenomenon has survived to our times.

Coaching is a technology that does not teach how to do something correctly, or how to properly resolve a situation, or how to give advice. This method assumes that all answers, all decisions, all possibilities are already in each of us, and only certain conditions are needed in order for these answers, solutions to be found, realized and realized.

☝🏻 The idea of coaching is that the client already knows all the answers, you just need to ask the right question. Therefore, coaching is called the art of asking questions.

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