This short article focuses on a specific technique: Being the observer. The paper is
part of a wider series of techniques papers on mindfulness coaching published in The
Coaching Psychologist. The paper offers a short description of the process and when
this technique may be most helpful within a coaching conversation. It builds on the
papers in the previous editions of TCP, which have briefly reviewed the science and
potential for mindfulness approaches in coaching and other techniques.
As a technique paper, I have deliberately kept the discussion short, but for those
interested in the wider evidence behind the application of mindfulness, a more
detailed review is included in earlier papers, as well as other techniques which can
be used alongside attitude choice (Passmore, 20171a, 2017b and 2017c, 2018). For a
comprehensive review, readers may wish to review Michael Cavanagh, and Gordon
Spence’s critical review of the mindfulness literature (Cavanagh & Spence, 2013)
