LIVESTREAMED - Positive Provocation: Elevating Your Coaching Practice

Coaches are a unique audience in that they are able to balance challenge, on the one hand, with safety and support, on the other. This makes them an excellent group to appreciate and engage in the process of positive provocation. You will first be introduced to the model, given opportunities to reflect on the ways that it mirrors or differs from your own coaching philosophies, and offered the chance to ask questions.

Next, you will have the opportunity to engage with provocative questions designed to promote reflection about your own assumptions and habits regarding coaching. You will have opportunities to learn how widespread these practices are and, in some cases, to trace the historical roots of these practices. For each prompt, the presenter will introduce relevant research findings that help shed additional light on common practices; often by suggesting that there is greater nuance than first meets the eye.

This presentation will be calibrated to the audience, depending on level of experience. Specifically, you can privately self-identify your relative level of experience and understand how each prompt might be most effectively used for your point on the coaching journey. In the end, you should walk away from this presentation with a renewed connection to your own coaching practice and an enhanced motivation to engage in continuous improvement.