UPDATE: See my Art of Self-Coaching archive for all current course materials, including slides, class readings, and additional resources.
Here's a condensed set of slides from the first session in The Art of Self-Coaching, a new course I'm teaching at the Stanford Graduate School of Business this Spring, and the readings for this session are shown below. We have eight more sessions, and I'm planning to post my decks as we go.
If you'd like to learn more about the topics we'll cover, here's my syllabus, and if you'd like a good laugh at my expense, here's a funny story from the first day of class.
CLASS 1: BEGINNINGS
- Neuroscience, Joyful Learning and the SCARF Model
- Safety, Trust, Intimacy
- How Great Coaches Ask, Listen, and Empathize
- Christopher Peterson, Pursuing the Good Life
- Ch 1, pp 3-6, “What Is Positive Psychology, and What Is It Not?”
- Ch 4, pp 14-17, “Blaming the Science Versus Blaming the Victim”
- Edgar Schein, Helping
- Ch 3, pp 30-47, “The Inequalities and Ambiguities of the Helping Relationship”
- OPTIONAL: Ch 5, pp 66-84, “Humble Inquiry”
