Coaching of Anticipation: A Coda for Insights and Implications

W Bergquist 2025

In bringing this series of essays on the psychology of anticipation to a close, I turn my attention specifically to the matter of coaching our clients regarding their anticipations. Specifically, what does the polystatic model offer as a way to guide this coaching process? And what else can be derived from the analyses offered in this set of essays for those engaged in professional coaching? I address these questions by providing a list of the insights and implications found in each of the four essays. This Coda contains a summary of specific insights and implications I have presented in the four essays as they relate to the field of professional coaching. The list includes coaching insights and implications contained in the first two essays on the psychology of anticipation (essay one) and anticipatory differences to be found among the nine different personality types of the Enneagram (essay two). Additions to this list come from the third essay on the behavioral and cognitive functions of the polystatic process, and the fourth essay on the emotional functions and neurobiological factors related to Polystasis and the psychology of anticipation.