Presence-Based Coaching: Cultivating Self-Generative Leaders Through Mind, Body and Heart offers a practical map to the territory of working with presence, both within yourself and in your coaching and developing of others. First, we explore presence as an essential element of human learning and development. The book maps how presence accelerates and deepens the development process, and offers reliable practices for accessing presence. Second, the book provides extensive inner and relational coaching moves, brought to life through illustrative dialogs, for bringing presence into coaching. The result? Self-generative, authentic, and effective leaders.

As a result of reading Presence-Based Coaching, and working with the exercises and practices within, you will:·

• Shift into the state of presence more easily and readily

• Increase your capacity to establish and hold a field of presence with others

• Increase your capacity to enroll and influence others through your authentic presence

• Understand how presence facilitates self-generation and accelerates development

• Apply a set of coaching moves that enable others to shift how they see themselves in relation to their challenges, and to take new and creative actions

• Design unique practices for yourself that enhance your capacity for presence, and

• Be experienced by yourself and others as more present, authentic and alive.

Table of Contents

Part One: Presence, Self-Generation, and Coaching
1: Presence
2. How Humans Change: Conditioning, Identity, and Self-Generation
3. Coach as Development Partner

Part Two: Inner Moves

4. Orienting
5. Holding

Part Three: Generative Practices

6. Mind
7. Body
8. Heart

Part Four: Relational Moves

9. Coach for Self-Observation and Realization
10. Coach for Re-Organization
11. Coach for Stabilization
12: Entry, Continuation, Ending
Coda

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Publication Information

Presence-Based Coaching:
Cultivating Self-Generative Leaders Through Mind, Body, and Heart
Author:         Doug Silsbee
Foreword:     Richard Strozzi-Heckler
ISBN:            0-0470-32509-7 
Publisher:     Jossey-Bass, San Francisco
Details:         288 pages; 6" x 9" trim size; appendices, annotated bibliography, extensive exercises and practices, index, links to web resources.
List price:     $45.00
Available:     October, 2008