From tomorrow on, I will teach my regular four-day course on Brief Coaching and Therapy. When I conceived this course, I thought that four days would be enough to teach everything necessary to be an effective coach or therapist, assuming that the participants know about at least one basic methodology.
This time, I’ll see if we can make it in one day less.
I firmly believe that coaching and therapy is simple, really simple. Most of the coaching methodologies on the market are very similar at their basic level, yet they are “expanded” more and more with no end in sight. Don’t get me wrong here: I am all for progress, but why do so many trainers seem to favor complexification over simplification?
Additionally, there is just too much cargo cult going on in the business. Methods are “expanded” by adding more and more pointless rituals just for the sake of expansion, just to sell one more seminar day, just to register one more trademark, just to publish one more book, just to make more profit from gullible clients and coaching students alike.
Why? This just puzzles me. Why not just keep it as simple as it is? Supporting other people in reaching their goals and solving personal issues is simple, and it always has been. Don’t try to make it more complicated than it need be.
Anyway, I’ll be back after the course with the results. Stay tuned.
