Provocative Coaching: Making Things Better by Making Them Worse

excellent guide for the implementaiion of the techniqes involved in provocative therapy

My thoughts after reading 20 pages were 'This is a great book! It is funny and really does provide a `how to' track for using humor when clients lack energy and motivation. I've observed this approach used by Master Trainers of NLP and thought they were just naturally funny and gifted. Now I'm thinking they have probably also trained in provocative coaching/therapy, and that humor is something that can be learned and used effectively. Thank you for this gift!'Now that I've almost completed the first reading of the book, it is in my view, a must have for NLP trainers and coaches who want to expand their range and the results clients can achieve. I'm wishing more of this author's books were offered in English!

Great book, it's a wonderful summery of the provocotive method, filled with joy and laughter.Highly recommend to everyone who is tired of boredom by conventional approach

Every body who is into unconventional ways of helping people, should reed this book. Provocative techniques will work for you as a coach to help people develop their own strengths. 'The rational is highly overrated' David Rock says in his book Your brain at work and I agree. If we want to learn people something, using metaphors, beating around the bush and choosing one side of the coin are very useful techniques to learn people choose their own path of solution.Provocative techniques will provide you that tools. But you can use the provocative communication techniques also in front of your classroom or as a consultant. You will have more authentic response.One of the techniques I love is fishing and baking. You just fish until something emotional happens with your client. That is so different en so much fun from the inhabiting methods where you must find the BEST QUESTION otherwise you failed!In this book your questions about how provocative coaching works and how you can use it in practice is explained with a lot of examples and live sessions which are described in the book.Jaap Hollander is a true professional who wants to make the technique available to those who are willing to grab it.Adélka Vendl psychologist

Humour is not always our big Forte, even if we know how helpful it is in various moments in our lives. Humour leading to laughter and understanding of oneself is one of the greatest gifts of provocative coaching. The book leads you through all the steps necessary to help your client. It is easy to follow and practice even if you do not consider yourself talented. Frames to set you free. Enjoy :)

Loved this book, both as a therapist and just a normal person who could do with different ways to view problems. I attended a training day with Fran Farrelly a number of years back, and I found his approach to training, which is simply to demonstrate, not very helpful. Watching provocative therapy with no explanation can be quite bewildering, even disturbing. Tihis book fills the gap beautifully. It is basically a transcript of a training course in provocative therapy, and as a result it reads more like a conversation than a book. Very accessible, very practical, loads of examples and great fun.

I read Frank Farrelly's book, Provocative therapy many years ago and found the ideas and concepts really helpful in my work as a psychotherapist. Jaap Hollander's book, Provocative Coaching takes this method much further. It offers very practical skills for coaches (and therapists) and has the added bonus of being an entertaining read. I recommend it to anyone wanting to improve their coaching and communicating abilities.

This new book on provocative coaching is unique and well written. Jaap Hollander takes the reader by the hand and guides him step for step through the wonderful world called provocative coaching. As a provocative therapist myself I can recommend this book to any professional in the field as well as to anybody who wants to really learn about the provocative approach.

I've read provocative therapy by Frank Farelly and always suspected it would be very effective in coaching. Indeed, in meta-coaching which I practice there is a provoking point to get people to make a decision. So I was fascinated that someone might write a book purely on coaching by provoking. The idea behind it is excellent - essentially you get people to fight against keeping their problem by insisting they should keep it. But this point is buried in endless transcripts which, whilst fascinating (and I wish more coaching books were like this and Coaching Conversations) left me aching for the author to talk less - and get to the point more! I presume he felt the transcripts were necessary to get the style and flavour across. By 75% through the book I was really wanting the transcripts to end and some decent theory to support the approach. The author doesn't seem to have much - which is more my need than his - because the approach obviously works but perhaps some chapters breaking his approach down more succinctly would be good for a second edition. Basically, great stuff but the book makes you work HARD to extract it. I suspect teaching like this best comes out of actually attending the seminars.

As a qualified executive coach I often find that the ability to challenge a client in a productive manner can make the difference between success and failure or between having impact or just wasting everyone's time. Developing a broad range of coaching approaches is key for me. Reading Jaap's book has helped me identify a number of means in which I can maximise the impact of the coaching sessions and the coaching relationship. The book delivers a clear description of the method origianlly developed by Frank Farelly. In fact as a guide to provocative coaching I prefer it to Farelly's original "Provocative Therapy".

This excellent book helped me to understand the theory behind provocative Therapy and apply it to my work with vulnerable young people. I regularly work with young offenders and drug users who respond to this approach and am already using key elements from the book to help them think differently.

Really thought provoking. I actually felt like I was in the seminar. Big well done. I will defiantly give this a try.

J'ai adoré le contenu de ce livre. J'avais l'impression d'assister au seminaire sur le provocative coaching.Je vais appliquer les conseils et la theorie rapidement a ma pratique!!!