Albert Bandura is perhaps best known for his social learning theory, the concept of self-efficacy, and his famous Bobo doll experiments. Today, Bandura is often identified as the greatest living psychologist as well as one of the most influential psychologists of all...
Alex Trebek [1] never considered writing his memoirs until cancer of the pancreas threatened to shorten his life; family and friends nudged him to leave his worldwide admirers with a souvenir to cherish after his departure. His The Answer is … Reflections on My Life...
In two previous blogs, first, the topic of coaching conversation was presented as a co-creative level of conversational intelligence and secondly, the topic of coaching empathy outlined the transformation of the coaching relationship by attention, appreciation, and...
In a previous blog, Empathic Coaching Conversation, we looked at the power of conversation that is creative in the coaching setting, moving both client and coach through the steps of discovering the beliefs and values of the client in new perspectives to meet the...
One of the most common definitions of empathy is that of “walking in the shoes of another person.” But do the shoes fit? How can we know what empathy really is? Adam Sicinski, in his website IQ Marix, states that “Empathy has the ability to accurately experience...
Most of us have probably considered references to the heart as poetic symbolism or anecdotal metaphor rather than the organ that circulates blood throughout the body. Even the biblical uses of the heart such as “What comes out of the mouth proceeds from the heart” or...
