Matthew A. Budd

Personal Coaching for Results

“In my profession as a physician, coaching and mentoring are essential but almost lost parts of the doctor-patient relationship. The ‘healing relationship’ is the moment when the doctor holds the possibility of cure or improvement as real when the patient has lost hope. Thus, the patient begins to dwell in the doctor’s belief system of hope, rather than in his or her own despair. This requires sensitivity, credibility, and inspiration, and then patients can build a new belief structure, mobilize their own bodily resources, and begin to ally with medicine to heal. In this book, Lou Tice brilliantly shows the hold that habits of thinking have on our behavior, sharing his personal experiences of escaping from his own ‘prisons of thought’ and building new possibilities. He explores the relationship of one person, a mentor, to another, that allows the latter to grow. He brings his vast experience as a teacher and inventor to this most critical of relationships in a time that some have characterized as one of isolation and loneliness. This is an essential, even core competence for teachers, parents, clergymen—and even friends—to have.”