Coaching clients may disempower themselves in a coaching session, which can reveal valuable information about how others in their working environments may experience them. Through a parallel process this may also elicit similar feelings of disempowerment for the coach, which comes from a misplacement of the client’s power: in this situation they vest it in the coach rather than in themselves. The coaching relationship is a unique and precious opportunity for the client to build this awareness and to create options for alternative responses to any feelings of inadequacy they may have.
