I managed to finish what I call a first draft of the ICA Research Paper. I read, and re-read it. I sent it to DeeDee, my peer coach, for review and she got back to me in a few hours!
Anyways, I think I will read it again and either send it in, or, at least, consider it “done”. I did a lot of work on extracting the information I was looking for from differente sources, but I am left with the following doubt: Did I just look for the quotes and information that underlined my starting point of view? Did I not skip over or jump anything that undermined my assertion?
It may feel silly to ask this question, in a way, since that is exactly what I am supposed to be doing in a Research Paper, right? Putting forth a point of view, or investigating something. However, I think there was no possibility of coming to an opposing conclusion from the one I started with. Among other things, it would mean that I might need to start over again with a different paper.
Next step is the Coaching Model, and, after that, the Power Tool. I am totally at a loss with the latter. And with the former, I am having quite a bit of discussion in teleclasses and with peer coaches: what ICA asks as a coaching model doesn’t really coincide with what they teach IS a model.
The models I am seeing sent by other students and mentioned in classes are more along the lines of “Processes”, i.e. what happens over time, in a vectorial type of way: we go from here to here, stopping here, here and here. The models in the course notes, however, are more regarding how we do it: Listen, Acknowledge, Feedback, Action. Or Explore Values, Set Goals, Design Action, Check Results… rince, and repeat.
So they are very different things, and I am at a slight loss. I have come to decide that it is the latter that they are looking for, although this would be a sort of inconsistency with their course notes.
