Jonathan Sibley's Coaching & Psychotherapy Blog
Submitted by Jonathan Sibley on Tue, 07/07/2009 - 00:16
Jonathan Sibley and co-researcher Tatiana Bachkirova have received a $25,000 grant from Harvard Medical School's Institute of Coaching to study the inner workings of coaching.
Through this research, working with international panels of expert coaches, we will create a standardized instrument to describe what actually occurs during coaching sessions. This will allow comparisons between different styles of coaching as well as a description of the factors that all forms of coaching share.
Submitted by Jonathan Sibley on Mon, 04/06/2009 - 14:15
The second season of In Treatment, with Gabriel Byrne, got started last night. Once again, it is a combination of interesting drama and therapy that is quite different from the therapy I think tends to be most helpful.
Once again, Paul, the therapist, seems more intent on telling his client what she might be feeling, thinking, and what he thinks she needs to do than on helping her to experience her own feelings and to feel safe and secure enough to share them with him.
Submitted by Jonathan Sibley on Tue, 03/24/2009 - 16:49
Every year, many of us make New Year's resolutions with every intention of this being the year that we will follow-up. Every Spring, millions of resolutions are discarded once again, waiting for the following year to be picked up once again.
Why is it so difficult to make progress on these pesky efforts to change? As mentioned in a previous post, Kegan and Lahey have some answers, as well as a methodology to help us make progress.
Submitted by Jonathan Sibley on Tue, 03/24/2009 - 08:13
This blog will now be followed and indexed by Technorati.
Submitted by Jonathan Sibley on Sun, 03/01/2009 - 19:33
Kegan and Lahey have just published Immunity to Change - How to Overcome It and Unlock the Potential in Yourself and Your Organization. I think it is brilliant.
Kegan is the author of an adult developmental theory which I have found extremely useful. It dates back to 1982, with revisions to the theory in the 1990s (e.g., In Over Our Heads). In 2000, he wrote "How the We We Talk can Change the Way We Work" with Lisa Lahey. This was an extremely helpful book for promoting change but without a clear, direct link to the earlier developmental stages.
Submitted by Jonathan Sibley on Fri, 02/13/2009 - 17:31
Soumitra Dutta spoke to INSEAD alumni at MTV studios yesterday about ways companies are now using social networking to reach out to customers.
One of the questions that came up was how leaders can be helped to develop an online presence and, for example, whether senior leaders should be blogging or whether that is too dangerous.
For a leader to be successful at more direct, less-screened contact with the broader world, any blind spots that the leader has about himself or herself can become dangerous.
