Why should we look into a Coaching Fishbowl?

It’s easy to see how the Annual lecture and Psychology Distilled might help and encourage trainee as well as experienced coaches. But what about Coaching Fishbowls?

Well, they’re the closest thing to coaching masterclasses that we know: an opportunity to see an expert in the field demonstrate great coaching with different models, for different purposes, in different environments. Wherever and however you coach it’s invaluable to experience the diversity of the discipline and pick up useful techniques from different areas.

But one of the strongest reasons you should attend is even closer to home. The Psychology of Executive Coaching by Bruce Peltier is required reading on Mastered. The chapter on Behavioural Concepts gives a compelling argument, drawing on Bandura’s social learning theory, for stressing the power of observational and imitative learning. We learn well from the consequences of behaviour to others, and we can learn to use other people’s behaviour as cues for our own.

So, Coaching Fishbowls are a chance for us to practise what we preach.

The next fishbowl is on the 3rd of March with Sally Woodward on Coaching for Change: Beyond GROW.