Executive coaching as a discipline is interested in coaches obtaining elements from psychotherapy training. Â There are feelings that coaches should know themselves well before they attempt to know others.
Yet, nowadays, running counter to the value of depth, the mood is for brief  trainings, a sense pervades that things can be learnt quickly. It is a bit like imagining reading a menu is the same as eating the meal.
A key value that psychotherapy trained coaches bring from lengthy training is to have internalised an ethical way of working. Â Ethics are central to contracting and working through an executive coaching relationship. If training is rushed and neglects the ethical dimension the work suffers.
