This illuminating guide to the core skills and techniques of the relational approach to coaching brings the intersubjective, collaborative relationship between coach and client into focus. The authors use key case examples from a variety of settings to illustrate the skills needed at different stages of the coaching relationship, including chapters on:

? Establishing the Working Alliance

? Inquiring Collaboratively

? Use of Self

? The Presenting Past

? Enactments, Games, Ruptures and Repairs

? Endings in Coaching

Filled with a variety of exercises and reflective questions, this will be an invaluable tool for trainee coaches or those already practicing wishing to refine their skills.