COACHING FOR OPTIMAL ENERGY: A GUIDE FOR EXECUTIVE COACHES
By VIV CHITTY
Publisher: ROUTLEDGE
ISBN: 978 0367 51576 8
This ground-breaking book is engaging from start to finish. Chitty has produced a treasure trove of the many interrelated facets of energy. Her unique model of energy is the result of a deep dive into the research literature on each of these facets combined with lived experience – the results from interviews with her research partners, experienced executive coaches, whose quotes are threaded through each chapter.
She describes three overall categories of energy: optimal, suboptimal and inappropriate high energy. These distinctions will resonate with readers who at times have met each of these levels in coaching and supervision sessions and who may not always have had the necessary knowledge to work successfully with them. Readers will find clearly presented facts on the conceptual model, including these categories. The chapters that follow take the reader into how to work with each aspect of the categories of energy in situ.
As I read each chapter I sensed Chitty beside me, guiding me to think widely and deeply about energy, and to continue to develop awareness of my own and others’ levels.
Fiona Adamson is an executive coach, coach supervisor, co-founder of the Coaching Supervision Academy and co-author of Mindfulness-Based Relational Supervision: Mutual Learning and Transformation