ABSTRACT
This chapter shows how psychodynamic coaching means working actively with a direct focus on the client’s business. The coach also carries out active, focused work indirectly, with him/herself as the receptive instrument for both conscious and unconscious processes that exist in the relationship, and in the parallel processes started up by what is told. The first step in psychodynamic coaching is concerned with the first time the client makes contact. At the first coaching session the coach and client must decide what the shared process should focus on. The course of coaching is useful, because a moderate, reasonable pressure of time helps to keep things in focus. There are other ways of structuring the work, such as asking the client to describe situations and relationships with the help of metaphors, or one can select periods or themes. There are two objectives in the last session: to evaluate, reflect over, and conclude the process, and to close the relationship.
