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The dual alternatives that make up the strategy of Fish/fishing rod—His frame/my frame deal with the constant adjustments of the coach’s intervention modes. Do I give my client a helping hand (a “fish”) or remain in the background and help the client discover what he needs to do (“build his own fishing rod”)? Do I use his frame of reference or my own? The practice of metacommunication—communicating about how we are communicating—helps the coach reach into the client’s frame of reference, and also enables the client to reach into the coach’s frame of reference.
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In the sense used in Stephen Karpman’s Drama Triangle, which has three roles: the victim, the rescuer and the persecutor. See Karpman, S. Fairy Tales and Script Drama Analysis. Transactional Analysis Bulletin, 7(26), 39–43, 1968.
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Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, To Live until We Say Goodbye, Simon & Schuster, 1997.
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In particular Coaching for Meaning, Palgrave, 2004, pp 49–68.
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Viktor Frankl, Man’s Search for Meaning, Beacon Press, 2006, pp 144–146.
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Lenhardt, V. (2017). Strategy 2: Fish/fishing Rod—His Frame/My Frame. In: My 10 Strategies for Integrative Coaching. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-54795-4_4
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