How important are ‘aha’ moments and how can we increase the likelihood of them occurring in coaching, asks Sophie Austin
Many of us are familiar with Archimedes’ cries of ‘Eureka!’ on discovering density and volume, and Sir Isaac Newton’s discovery of gravity. Intrigued to find out whether it’s desirable to enable such moments of insight within the coaching dialogue and how we might best do this, I chose to explore this topic for my Masters in Coaching and Behavioural Change at Henley Business School. I set...
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I’m very much interested in this aspect of coaching process (or should I say this type of outcome of coaching). And especially I’m curious whether anyone uses coaching to work within scientific or technological domain rather than more usual domains of life, business, or leadership coaching?
There is Gary Klein’s book Seeing What Others Don’t which is related to insights (short summary http://www.theemotionmachine.com/the-triple-path-model-of-insight-how-revolutionary-thinkers-arrive-at-insights/). And there he lays out a model which I think could be quite fruitful in facilitating scientific or engineering insights.
I wonder if anyone might be involved with such kind off coaching?