A HAPPY MEDIUM: DR DANIEL DOHERTY I went to see the fortune teller. I crossed her palm with dollar bills. Then her dog bit me. In the Chelsea part of Manhattan, US, it is impossible to walk the streets without encountering psychic reading shops. As a scholar, with a serious interest in probing the practice of coaching from all perspectives, it occurs to me that the exclusion of fortune telling from the recognised canon of executive coaching practice is a serious omission. It would seem that psychic powers and luminous clairvoyance have been overlooked in the design of coaching competency...