Robert B Dilts – författare

Generative Coaching Volume I

The Journey of Creative and Sustainable Change

There are times in the life of every individual, every marriage, every family, every culture and every business, where what has been done in the past will not help you to successfully go forward into the future. In these situations you have to do something completely new that has not been done before.

To be generative means to create something new. That is what this book is about. How do we creatively support ourselves and others to find new solutions and develop new possibilities? 

Situations calling for generative change also frequently involve a lot of uncertainty, risk, and potential danger. This can bring out inner obstacles and resistances which block creativity and that need to be identified and transformed. To effectively do so requires the ability to engage multiple intelligences and use "out-of-the-box" thinking.

In this book, internationally renowned coaches and authors Robert Dilts and Stephen Gilligan present a simple yet powerful six-step approach to navigating the complex path to a more meaningful and fulfilling future. Drawn from transcripts of live seminars, and brilliantly illustrated by Antonio Meza, this first volume provides a clear, practical and lively introduction to the magic of Generative Coaching.

Whether you are an experienced coach or someone interested in learning about how to support others to reach more of their potential, this book will provide you with a useful and inspiring road map for navigating the journey of creative and sustainable change.

We live in times of unprecedented change, with many deep calls for positive evolution and transformation. Generative Coaching is a response to those calls. It describes how our realities arise and fall, like waves on an ocean, and how we can skillfully navigate those waves to generate deeper happiness and success.

Generative Coaching Volume 1 detailed the basic prototype of our six-step method by which this can be coached in ourselves and others. This second volume explores a more advanced version of the method, describing how to help clients use their own core patterns-both positive and negative-to open a resilient creative state in which many sustainable changes can be generated. 

The heart and soul of Generative Coaching is the creative consciousness that seamlessly connects all of life. Aligned with that integral awareness, we can mindfully unfold worlds to which we all want to belong.

To "generate" means to create something that has not previously existed. The focus of "generative change" is to cultivate creativity: in teams, ventures, relationships and individuals. The goal of generative consulting, in particular, is to help teams and organizations evolve and function in ways that are both new and more effective.

Generative consulting often requires introducing a whole new mindset into an organization. This new mindset includes cognitive understanding but also involves engaging other forms of intelligence, such as somatic intelligence, emotional intelligence and collective intelligence.

In this book, we will show how the seven steps of the generative consulting DIAMOND Model can be applied, using multiple intelligences, to help teams and organizations stimulate growth, survive crises and manage transition. We will also show how the nine generative consulting competences can be used to inspire and empower individuals and teams to co-create a world to which they want to belong.

Creating and managing ecological and sustainable change is a multi-level process. Changing our actions involves changing our mind and mindset. This includes increasing our knowledge and know-how, but it also frequently requires a shift in our priorities and motivations as well. Sometimes it means updating even deeper processes, such as our perceptions of our identity and our sense of purpose. 

A major theme in this volume is the role that beliefs play in either supporting or inhibiting creativity. Deeply held beliefs weave together all three of the areas that make up our consciousness - cognitive, somatic and field - and thus have a powerful influence on the way we build our realities. In this book, we will show how we can strengthen empowering beliefs as well as identify and transform belief barriers that can disempower us or hold us back. 

Generative Coaching Volume 3 demonstrates how multiple levels of influences can be integrated into the six steps of the generative coaching process to produce more profound and lasting success in any area of our lives.