Put a Bench in Your Garden for Reflection: How Visual Tools & Metaphors can Boost Your Coaching Practice Perhaps the greatest skill a coach can bring to their practice is listening. When you add drawing to your listening, you give your client a tangible tool which reflects your collective listening and sense-making I have always had an appreciation and admiration of coaches. They remind me of a skillful gardener with a great bag of seeds for planting ideas, and a bountiful ba