Part 1: The Journey of Awakening and Transformation
Chapter One: The Deep Coaching Potential
Evocation
The Purpose of This Book
The Rise of Coaching
A New Paradigm of Coaching for a New Paradigm of Living
Chapter Two: Coaching Continuum
What Is Transactional Coaching?
What Is Transformational Coaching?
The Middle Realm: Developmental Coaching
Four Levels of Engagement
Deep Coaching in a Nutshell
Chapter Three: Understanding the Journey of Transformation
In Transformation, What Is Transforming?
Self-Concept and the Ego
Transforming the Self-Concept
Coaching and the Self-Concept
A Lesson from the Caterpillar
The Inner Earthquake
The Perfect Functionality of Dysfunction
The Impulse to Transform
Transformation Has Its Own Volition
Chapter Four: Transformational Models 1: Six Stages of Personal Power
Six Stages of Personal Power
Coaching Transformationally vs. Coaching Transformation
Chapter Five: Transformational Models 2: The Hero’s Journey
Stages of the Hero’s Journey
- Departure
- Initiation
- Return
Be the Hero so You Can Become the Coach
Chapter Six: The Dual Dynamics of Transformation
What it Means to Heal
The Dual Dynamics of Transformation
Personal Gravity
Our Propulsion System: Six Engines
Coaching as a Healing Modality
Living Between the No Longer and Not Yet
And the Paradigm Shifts
Chapter Seven: Recognizing the Readiness - Five Key Signals
Normalize Their Experience
It Can’t Be Your Agenda
Signal #1: A Sense of Uncertainty, Confusion and Doubt around What's Happening and the Direction of Their Life
Signal #2: Increasing Awareness of One's Personal Gravity and Its Effect
Signal #3: A Request for Healing
Signal #4: A Willingness to Talk Openly about Spirit, Soul, and Spirituality
Signal #5: An Emerging Vision of Life Purpose
Part II: The Art and Practices of Deep Coaching
Chapter Eight: The Deep Coaching Approach
The Three Tenets of Deep Coaching
Key Roles of the Deep Coach
Creating the Conditions: What It Takes to Be a Deep Coach
The Nine Transformative Deep Coaching Practices
Chapter Nine: Practice 1 - Slow It All Down and Sync with the Rhythm of Life and Spirit
The Rhythm of Life and Spirit
Intention of the Practice
The Challenge to Slowing Down
When the Awareness Arises
Chapter Ten: Practice 2 - Release Your Agendas; Live Your Spiritual Values
Your Agenda Influences Transformation
Developing Your Coaching Presence
Spiritual, Religious, and Philosophical Beliefs Impact Transformation
Identify Your Core Spiritual, Religious, and Philosophical Beliefs
Identify Your Core Spiritual Values
Turning Spiritual Values into Spiritual Energy
Chapter Eleven: Practice 3 - Nurture a Healing Space
What Is a Healing Space?
Cultivating a Healing Space
Chapter Twelve: Practice 4 - Let There Be Silence
Silence and Transformation
Silence Busters
Introducing Silence into the Coaching Space
Passive and Active Silence
Breaking Silence
Chapter Thirteen: Practice 5 - Coach More from the Heart, Less from the Head
The Head Thinks
The Heart Knows
Accessing the Heart’s Intelligence
Working with the Self-Concept
Exploring Core Limiting Beliefs in a Session
Arriving at the Gateway
Chapter Fourteen: Practice 6 - Attune to Your Client’s Deeper Sense of Self and Let That Lead
Agendas Are the Shadow Side of Caring
Four Levels of Listening
We Are Like Radios
Begin Attuning to Yourself
Attune to Your Client’s Deeper Sense of Self
What Are You Listening For?
A Gateway Practice
Chapter Fifteen: Practice 7 - Expand Your Capacity to Be with Pain and Allow Healing Moments
Part 1: Expand Your Capacity to Be with Pain
What Is Pain?
Pain Thresholds
Discomfort with Pain
Pain Is a Call for Love
Be Like the Palm Tree
In What Are You Grounded?
Heal Your Own Pain First
Chapter Sixteen: Practice 7 - Expand Your Capacity to Be with Pain and Allow Healing Moments
Part 2: Allow Healing Moments
Clarifying the Role of the Coach in Healing
The Limits of Inquiry
Listen for the Desired Experience
Facilitating Healing Experiences
A Final Word on Grief Work
Chapter Seventeen: Practice 8 - Foster the Emergence of What Wants to Happen
The Objective Is the Experience
The Generative Potential
Experiencing the Great I Am
Listen for the Readiness
Fostering the Experience in a Session
Experience the Experience
Chapter Eighteen: Practice 9 - Cultivate Trust in the Mystery and Magic of Transformation
A Lesson from Zorba the Greek
The Mystery and Magic
It’s Hard for People to Trust
You Will Be Presented with Lessons
The Need to See Progress
All Is Well
Chapter Nineteen: Structure of a Deep Coaching Session
Deep Coaching Overlays Conventional Coaching
Structure of a Conventional Coaching Session
Structure of a Deep Coaching Session
A Final Word: Make It Your Own
