Deeper awareness

If a Coach only asks questions and receives answers from the normal level of conscious awareness, he may be helping the Coachee to structure his thoughts, but he is not probing to new or deeper levels of awareness. When the Coachee has to stop to think before responding, maybe raising his eyes to do so, awareness is being raised. The Coachee is having to plumb new depths of his consciousness to retrieve the information. It is as if he is delving into his inner filing cabinet to find the answer. Once found, this new awareness becomes conscious, and the Coachee is empowered by it.
                                                                                   John Whitmore, Coaching for Performance