The first practice coaching sessions were today which involved being both coached and coaching. Both activities involve reflection. Working as the coach, reflecting back what the coachee is saying requires close attention and well developed listening skills. When being coached hearing your words reflected / spoken back to you is powerful and has the potentially to be truly transformative.
reflect
verb
1 send back, throw back, cast back, give back, bounce back, shine back, return, mirror.
ANTONYMS absorb.
2 indicate, show, display, demonstrate, be evidence of, register, reveal, betray, evince, disclose, exhibit, manifest; express, bespeak, communicate, bear out, attest, prove, evidence; result from.
3 think about, give thought to, consider, give consideration to, review, mull over, contemplate, study, cogitate about/on, meditate on, muse on, deliberate about/on, ruminate about/on/over, dwell on, brood on/over, agonize over, worry about, chew over, puzzle over, speculate about, weigh up, revolve, turn over in one’s mind, be in a brown study; informal put on one’s thinking cap; archaic pore on; rare cerebrate.
