{"id":1204,"date":"2012-02-29T12:00:54","date_gmt":"2012-02-29T18:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/life-coaching-resource.com\/blog\/?p=1204"},"modified":"2012-02-01T14:23:15","modified_gmt":"2012-02-01T20:23:15","slug":"laura-berman-fortgangs-model-of-coaching","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.life-coaching-resource.com\/blog\/laura-berman-fortgangs-model-of-coaching\/","title":{"rendered":"Laura Berman Fortgang&#8217;s Model of Coaching"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The following is an excerpt from <a title=\"Top Coaching Techniques\" href=\"http:\/\/www.topcoachingtechniques.com\" target=\"_blank\">Top Coaching Techniques<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>David: Okay. So, I know a really nice model of coaching &#8211; I heard this from Laura Berman Fortgang at the ICF conference, and I really like it. Her model that she is using is very simple, and that is to begin each question with the word \u2018what\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>So don\u2019t ask them \u2018why\u2019. 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