Comentario a “Abraham Maslow – Founder of Humanistic and Transpersonal Psychology”, de Vikki Brock, MCC
The Coaching Commons

Comment by Leonardo Ravier on 22 March 2008:

“A Theory of Human Motivation” (Maslow, 1943) is more GRANDIOSE and HUMBLE than the simple pyramidal representation of needs.

Many people ignore that Maslow did not illustrate the hierarchy of needs with a pyramid. In fact, Maslow did not illustrated his theory, because when he talks about “hierarchy” he does not refer to a rigid concept (like a pyramid), rather as something dynamic and flexible. Therefore, the pyramid, does not correctly represent correctly his theory.

Maslow wrote this theory in “A Theory of Human Motivation (1943), originally Published in Psychological Review, 50, 370-396. http://psychclassics.yorku.ca/Maslow/motivation.htm

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Comentario a “How Much Coaching is Enough?”, de Linda Ballew
The Coaching Commons

Comment by Leonardo Ravier on 17 March 2008:

Hi Linda,

Maybe this will help.

Here in Spain, a national survey was directly provided to excecutive coaches (in 2006) regarding their work. One of the questions was precisely the DURATION of coaching process. So on pages 24, 25 and 26 of the final report you can review the some of the results on the duration of the coaching engagement:

Hours: 10 to 12 (36%), and over 16 (31%)
Sessions: between 10 and 12 (35%) and between 4 and 6 (25%)
Months: between 4 and 6 (54%)

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1. Introducción: El coaching como proceso de ayuda y la base del “complejo”

Según el DRAE, la sexta acepción (psicológica) del concepto “complejo” dice:

6. m. Psicol. Conjunto de ideas, emociones y tendencias generalmente reprimidas y asociadas a experiencias del sujeto, que perturban su comportamiento (destacado mio)

Cada vez es más notable el gran “complejo” que padecemos los coaches, y que se manifiesta en “comportamientos perturbadores” en el mercado.

El coaching como disciplina de ayuda, acompañamiento o apoyo a terceros, con el objetivo último de contribuir a la consecución de objetivos (siempre subjetivos, sean tangibles o intangibles) se centra principalmente en su actividad NO DIRECTIVA y/o NO INTERVENCIONISTAS de los propios esquemas, métodos, pensamientos o visiones de mundo del coachee.

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