Singing in a choir has helped Edwina Love-Lawrence focus on her growth as a coach. By exploring Self as Instrument, she has been able to find her ‘true sound’ in service of her clients. Here, she examines the points of contact between the two disciplines As my coaching practice has grown over the years, I have worked increasingly to develop “myself as instrument” which, as Rowan and Jacobs suggest, enables a coach “to use (their) own emotions, thoughts and reactions in the service and understanding of the client”. This way of working was brought into focus when I started to...