Presence-Based Coaching

Below is a selection of exercises and practices excerpted from Presence-Based Coaching. The explanatory material in the text will be very useful in many cases for understanding and interpreting the practice. You may download them as PDF’s and share them freely. There are many more exercises and practices in the book.

In general, exercises are intended to be done once or twice to generate a particular insight, experience, or perspective. Practices, on the other hand, are intended to be done repetitively over time, with the intention of building a competency or capacity. Practices are central to the accelerated developmental learning that is the promise of Presence-Based Coaching.

Exercises

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• Identify a Habit (2.1 & 2.2)
• Identity: Who Do You Hold Yourself to Be? (2.3)
• Performance vs. Developmental Learning (3.1)
• Develop a Purpose Statement (B.1)

Practices

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• Core Mind Practice: Sitting (6.1)
• Habits and Self-Observation (6.3)
• Self-Observation template (6.3)
• Letting Go of an Attachment (6.4)
• Core Body Practice: Centering (7.1)
• Somatic Responses to Others (7.4)
• Body Scan (7.3)
• Compassion for Others (8.1)
• Core Heart Practice: Touching Your Heart (8.2)
• Gratitude (8.5)