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Coaching 101 
What is executive coaching? What is life coaching? Who is qualified to offer these services and how is coaching different from consulting, therapy, or chatting with a good friend?

Outdoor Training 
There are many reasons why people invest in training programs. What have you heard?

Emotional Intelligence 
So what is all this recent hype about Emotional Intelligence (EI)? What is EI? How can EI be measured by my Emotional Quotient (EQ)? Why is EI important for leaders and managers and parents and all of us? How will improving my EQ help my business?

Click here for an article in Investment Advisor, Nov 2008, on the ROI of Coaching.  This article features Doug Gray, PCC, and one of our former clients, Matt Keeling.  There are many good tips on how to select a professional coach.

  

Adventure Racing Clinic Outline

Adventure Races are team outdoor challenges, in any terrain, in any season.  The activities include paddling whitewater or flatwater, trekking, climbing, rappelling, mountain biking, ascending, navigating with a map and compass and altimeter, mountaineering, canyoneering, etc.   The best racers, like the most successful people, navigate well together and share goals.  Click here to download this free ebook on how to succeed at adventure racing.

  

  

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         March 2006

  

Adventure Coaching

A Guidebook for Anyone Seeking
Adventure in Life and Work
 
by Doug Gray

 
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TABLE OF CONTENTS

CHAPTER 1- INTRODUCTION 
Your adventure calling, What if your building were on fire?, My support structure, How to use this book, What is adventure?, What is coaching?, What is adventure coaching?, Travel tips

CHAPTER 2- THE ADVENTURE CYCLE 
Get the message, Leave the familiar, Confront challenges, Return with a gift, Serve others, My adventure cycle outline

CHAPTER 3- GET THE MESSAGE 
Pushing and pulling, Seeking your message, Inventures, Time slices, My place of power, Think it and ink it, Divine messages, Future self, Assessment inventories, Case studies, Action items

CHAPTER 4- LEAVE THE FAMILIAR 
Take a visit, The balance wheel, Risk taking and risk avoidance, Facing gremlins, Baseline tables, My baseline table, Action plans, Action plan worksheets, Quadrant models, Taking those big steps, Case studies, Action items

CHAPTER 5- CONFRONT CHALLENGES 
The need to confront, The action learning model, Pleasure/pain motivators, The GROW model, Let's make a movie, Brave questions, The pit of despair, Shackleton's adventure story, Learning from our mistakes, Optimism, Case studies, Action items

CHAPTER 6- RETURN WITH A GIFT  
Celebration, On the summit, Four adventure challenges: physical, emotional, cognitive, spiritual, Physical actions matter, Words matter, The communication wheel, Emotional intelligence, Cognitive intelligence: signature strengths, Cognitive intelligence: appreciative inquiry, Spiritual intelligence, Fulfillment, Case studies, Action items

CHAPTER 7-SERVE OTHERS 
What makes the great great, Sacred Acts, Restlessness, Powerful questions, Daily power questions, Living with flow, Creating your service business, The adventure of parenting, Applying the adventure coaching model, Case studies, Action items

CHAPTER 8-FUTURE TRAILS 
Map making, Mind maps, Problem solving in three steps, Coaching with three steps, A lofty perspective, Coaching trends ahead, Final story

CHAPTER 9-APPENDICES

CHAPTER 10- RECOMMENDED READING

  

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