Strategy 4: Contextualization and the Intervention Zones

Abstract

Through contextualization—or the “intervention zones”—the coach is able to understand the client’s situation, both in the light of the client’s multiple interfaces, and with respect to his issues of identity. Parallel processes will come to light in the relationship with the coach, and transferential phenomena will occur. Contextualization makes it easier to identify the stakes, and to define a plan of work so that each coaching session finds its place within an overall timeframe and coaching framework that integrates the client’s challenges, whether they relate to operations, relationships, or to his own identity.