Abstract
Pivotal moments are shared embodied experiences between client and coach. As we mature in our role as coaches, we learn to trust our inner knowing and to anticipate these internal experiences that bring with them a sense of coherence to our work. The reality of our profession is that we seek to inspire and work with clients while still searching for philosophical and scientific roots to guide us on the path. We are like a sorcerer’s apprentice searching for the formula to create alchemical, golden moments of change.
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Briggs and Peat (1999).
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Briggs and Peat (1999), p. 19.
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Briggs and Peat (1999), p. 25.
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Briggs and Peat (1999), p. 31.
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Briggs and Peat (1999), p. 23.
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Bunnell (2011), p. 11.
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Bunnell (2011), p. 11.
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Cooperrider and Whitney (2001), p. 15.
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Berger and Luckmann (1966).
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Sociologists Berger and Luckmann initially introduced this view in their work, Social Construction of Reality. More recently, AI theorists such as Cooperrider, Srivastva and Whitney have drawn heavily on the work of Kenneth Gergen who believed that social actions get their meaning from a community of agreement. Recognition and acceptance of this view legitimizes much of the current research and practice in this area and has resulted in much innovation and creativity in organizational change.
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Chaffee (2004).
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A literature review on the concept of intuition across fields related to human development yields a range of perspectives that do not agree on one clear definition with the exception that it appears to generate from a non conscious level and is innate to humans.
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Mayer (2007).
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Mayer (2007).
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Boltz (2006).
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Newton (1687/1990).
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The acceptance of Newton’s absolute time was supported by the rise of industrialism and its need for scheduling and controlling factory workers, the transportation of goods and the resulting manufacture of cheap watches. Western societies settled on Newton’s linear time as the only interpretation or construction of time.
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Clancy (1996).
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Clancy (1996).
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Lewin (1948).
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Kelso (1995).
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Kelso (1995), p. 26.
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Csikszentmihalyi and Sawyer (1995).
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Schooler, Fallshore and Fiore (1995).
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Schooler et al. (1995).
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Schooler et al. (1995).
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Schooler et al. (1995).
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Bohm (1980).
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Bohm (1997).
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Bohm (1997), p. 61.
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Bohm (1997), p. 61.
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Bohm (1997), pp. 65–66.
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Bohm (1997), p. 67.
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de Haan (2008a).
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de Haan (2008b).
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de Haan (2008b), p. 124.
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de Haan (2008b).
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de Haan (2008a).
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Clancy, A.L., Binkert, J. (2017). Finding Coherence. In: Pivoting. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-60263-3_8
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