Yuli Miller

What is an excellent resource on the generic skill of 'coaching'? Like, not about some particular process but instead about the general skill of how to wisely relate to another human you are attempting to support.

Ooh! I have a straightforward resource recommendation, of a book chapter! (next tweet) And also I am very actively asking questions like, "What even *is* coaching? Is that a useful term to describe what I'm doing? Is there space in coaching for not knowing?" etc

Cavanagh's chapter in Beyond Goals is excellent! Talks about metasystematicity, and what forms of coaching are best suited for simple, complicated, chaotic, and complex states of systems. Also discusses a shift from goal to purpose orientation. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/56f581f83c44d8fc598bccbf/t/570ef3e0a3360c226a32ffde/1460597729733/Cavanagh-2012-The+Coaching+Engagment+in+the+21st+Century+.pdf … 1/

"Typically, goals needs to be co-created among stakeholders and held loosely enough for them to develop and evolve over time. As shall be discussed at length later, the notion of purpose, rather than goals, may be a better organizing concept for coaching in complex settings" 3/

"This network of influences is an attractor space: a space in the system that gives rise to the emergence of the properties that characterize the system" 4/

"Clients come to us in a variety of goal states ranging from holding clear predetermined goals to experiencing vague discontent." 5/