Adventures in Coaching Unlocking the power of personal and business coaching through a captivating story

This enchanting story uses Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland to explain personal and business coaching in a magical and entertaining adventure. A host of fanciful characters show readers how to have an effective coaching conversation from start to finish, and to reach real world outcomes in a more transformative way.

In this captivating story, Alice finds herself turning into a pizza, going straight to jail on the Monopoly board and embarking on a space flight. Along the way she meets a helpful turtle, a charismatic ladybird and a fox with some personal problems, among a cast of curious characters.

Research shows that learning is often better retained when made fun and stimulating. This book delivers the most rigorous and advanced textbook coaching theory, including the GROW model, contracting and feedback, in a uniquely engaging and mesmerising manner. The structure and sequence of the material is based on a tried and tested progression that the author has refined through his training and workshops over many years.

This groundbreaking approach to learning to coach will do for coaching what Who Moved My Cheese did for managing change.

Ben Dowman is a Coach, facilitator, psychologist, and leadership consultant and has worked within personal and organizational development for 20 years, both nationally and internationally. He runs his own business, Irrational Coaching, where he offers individual and executive coaching, coach training and NLP training.

His past clients include O2, NHS, Network Rail, The Law Society, Lloyds Bank, Airbus Group, Vodafone, Rothschild and The UK Royal Air Force and he has previously worked at the University of Cumbria as a Lecturer in Coaching and Mentoring.

Ben lives in the English Lake District and loves the outdoors, notably, cycling up steep hills, lake swimming and climbing vertical rock.