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From the ‘tasks of the coach’ it becomes apparent that being a good coach is also a question of personal style. You don’t become an excellent coach by trying to be someone else.

Warren Ziegler identified a number of different personal styles that he called Spiritual Archetypes. Identifying your own principal archetype(s) can help you to hone your own style, to bring out and shine up the facets of yourself that contribute to your being a good coach. It can also help you see others, including your clients, in a new light.

There is a simple exercise, ‘My focus – my leadership’, that can help clarify your style or archetype.

Ken Wilber’s take is slightly different. He talks about different ‘lines of development’ in which each individual displays personal strengths and weaknesses; in particular, the cognitive, the emotional, the interpersonal, the psychosexual, the moral, and the spiritual. He point out the parallel to the different ‘intelligences’ identified by Howard Gardner.

You can make your personal ‘SWOT analysis’ by creating a ‘psychograph’ based on Wilber’s lines.

Warren Ziegler, When Your Spirit Calls
Ken Wilber, The Integral Vision
Howard Gardner, Multiple Intelligences: New Horizons, The Development and Education of the Mind