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Jonathan Sibley, LCSW, MBA is a practicing coach and psychotherapist and is chief pot-stirrer for dialog about the relationship between coaching and psychotherapy. After receiving his MBA at INSEAD and a successful career at a Fortune 100 corporation, Jonathan went on to receive his MSW from Columbia University School of Social Work and to study coaching at Executive Coach Academy. Jonathan brings an integrative and multi-cultural perspective to both coaching and psychotherapy and works in English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, and German. Jonathan has presented on the relationship between coaching and psychotherapy at annual conferences of the Society for the Exploration of Psychotherapy Integration (SEPI) and the North American Society of Psychotherapy Research (NASPR). Jonathan also leads the Coaching and Psychotherapy Special Interest Group of the International Coach Federation. For more information about me, please click here
Mindsets - Do You Have a Growth Mindset or Fixed Mindset?
I’ve just completed “Mindset - the New Psychology of Success” by Carol S. Dweck and think it can be a great resource for coaching and for our own self-growth. Dweck talks about two different mindsets that people fall into:
A fixed mindset, where we are either smart or not, talented or not, and setbacks are “proof” […]
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18Aug2008 | jsibley | 1 comment | Continued
Examples of senior executives who are “out” about coaching?
I recently wanted to help someone make a case to their CEO that the CEO might want to explore receiving executive coaching.
It seems to me that one way to interest this CEO would be to let her know about other CEOs (or, at least, senior executives) who are open about having received executive coaching.
This is […]
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7Aug2008 | jsibley | 3 comments | Continued
Favorite Books for Executive Coaches
This started as a response to a question about additional training in executive coaching. I thought it might be helpful to have a separate thread for book recommendations.
My list will tend to focus on books that I see as value-added over and above a clinical background, and those books that are more psychologically-minded:
“How the Way […]
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17Jun2008 | jsibley | 1 comment | Continued
Anyone taping or videotaping?
When I work as a therapist, I videotape some of my sessions. This has been helpful for for my own learning (self-review and supervision) and has been helpful for some clients, who have watched DVDs of their sessions. In other settings, videotapes and audiotapes have been extremely helpful for researching what appears to be most […]
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11Jun2008 | jsibley | 1 comment | Continued
How Do We Know If We Start Doing Psychotherapy?
Yesterday, I attended a fascinating seminar for social workers about ethical issues related to boundary crossings.
This led me to wonder how we, as coaches, can know when we begin to cross the boundary between coaching and psychotherapy - particularly as there is still a lack of consensus about where that boundary is.
It seems to me […]
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6Jun2008 | jsibley | 4 comments | Continued
The coaching “frame” and boundaries
Thinking about similarities and differences between coaching and psychotherapy, I began wondering about the idea of the “therapeutic frame” and boundaries in psychotherapy. (I’ll admit it, these thoughts started while watching “In Treatment”)
It’s my understanding that one of the differences between coaching and psychotherapy is supposed to be that when coaching we can meet clients […]
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30Mar2008 | jsibley | 1 comment | Continued
Coaching or Therapy? - Real Life Example
Okay, I’m interested in feedback.
A psychiatrist contacts me saying the adult son of a patient might be a candidate for personal coaching, but she isn’t sure. He appears to be somewhat depressed, “due to not working.” He has a Masters degree and has been looking for a job, unsuccessfully, for six months. This has caused marital […]
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7Mar2008 | jsibley | 8 comments | Continued
To What Degree has Coaching Grown Out of Psychotherapy?
I’d like to go back to a question Andrea asked in mid-February. What parts of coaching have evolved from psychotherapy. Vicki has developed a “map” that will provide an overview. I’d like to look at this in terms of coaches who explicitly explore links between coaching and psychotherapy and also to look at ways both […]
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4Mar2008 | jsibley | 5 comments | Continued
The Evolution of Psychotherapy and How this Might Apply to Coaching
Andrea asked about how the evolution of psychotherapy might apply to the evolution of coaching.
Some have argued that a more holistic view of psychotherapy and people fell out of favor for several decades, during a medicalized, pathologizing view of people and the desire to research and perform therapy as though it were a medicine-patient comes […]
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21Feb2008 | jsibley | 2 comments | Continued
The Relationship(s) between Coaching and Psychotherapy - Why Should We Care?
Hi, everyone. I’m going to be the chief “pot-stirrer” about issues related to coaching and psychotherapy.
There are a lot of potentially facile comparisons between the two fields, particularly if we think of psychotherapy only in terms of psycho-analysis or psychodynamic therapy. However, that approach is not likely to get us far. In the near future, […]
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16Feb2008 | jsibley | 8 comments | Continued
