Pascale joined Yannick Jacob on the Animas Centre for Coaching podcast to discuss Alfred Adler as the grand-father of coaching.
They covered the five assumptions of Adlerian Psychology:
- Holism – we are indivisible humans made of one piece
- Teleology – everything we do is goal-directed and what matters is our movement, not our words
- Self-determinism – we are always at choice
- Lifestyle and private logic – we live according to conclusions we draw early on in life and which make us see things subjectively; which we can change if we so choose
- Social embeddedness – we can only be considered in the whole context of our whole lives
They also discussed at length an essential pillar of Individual Psychology (also an essential pillar of coaching!): ENCOURGEMENT, as well as Adler’s influence on coaching and modern psychotherapy and the connections between Individual Psychology and many current coaching and therapy movements.