Second set of practice sessions today, both coaching and being coached. Ahead of today’s sessions I have been reading Nancy Kline’s Time to Think: Listen to ignite the human mind. It’s a really simple thing; to think. Running an art practice, a business or any job for that matter involves day to day tasks and activities. What often is absent is time to think, in order to review, reflect, plan, identify issues and possible solutions. Coaching offers a dedicated space for thinking, the coachee’s thinking. The coach acts as a viewer, a bystander, not a participant, there is no collusion or collaboration. The role of the coach is the hold of the form of the session providing a place and time to think.
think
verb
1 believe, be of the opinion, have as one’s opinion, be of the view, be under the impression; expect, imagine, anticipate; surmise, suppose, conjecture, guess, fancy; conclude, determine, reason; informal reckon
2 deem, judge, hold, reckon, consider, presume, estimate; regard as, view as.
3 ponder, reflect, deliberate, meditate, contemplate, muse, cogitate, ruminate, be lost in thought, be in a brown study, brood; concentrate, rack one’s brains, cudgel one’s brains; informal put on one’s thinking cap, sleep on it; rare cerebrate.
ANTONYMS act, leap into action.
4 consider, contemplate, give thought to, entertain the idea of, deliberate about, weigh up, turn over in one’s mind, mull over, chew over, reflect on, ruminate about, muse on
5 recall, remember, recollect, call to mind, bring to mind, think back to, review.
6 imagine, picture, visualize, envisage, envision; dream about, fantasize about.
