How to Coach Yourself and Others Techniques For Coaching

3.40 JOINING THE COACHEE THROUGH MAINTENANCE, TRACKING AND MIMESIS According to Minuchin before a counsellor can hope to intervene and restructure a family to a more healthy way of functioning, she must first “join” the family system. He also refers to this process as “accommodation”. He says: “The therapist’s methods of creating a therapeutic system and positioning himself as its leader are known as joining operations. (Minuchin (1974). Page 123) Minuchin lays out three joining operations or methods that can be employed in order to facilitate further work with the family in treatment. These three operations are maintenance, tracking and mimesis. We turn now to look at each of these. Maintenance According to Minuchin, maintenance “refers to the accommodation technique of providing planned support for family structure, as the therapist perceives and analyses it.” (Minuchin (1974) Basically, when the therapist encounters the family he has needs to respect where they find themselves at the moment. Their system and transactional patterns may be far from perfect, but it is what works f

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