Timothy Gallwey

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W. Timothy Gallwey (born 1938 in Berkeley, California) is an author who has written a series of books in which he has set forth a new methodology for coaching and for the development of personal and professional excellence in a variety of fields, that he calls "The Inner Game." Since he began writing in the 1970s, his books include The Inner Game of Tennis, The Inner Game of Golf, The Inner game of Music (with Barry Green), Inner Skiing and The Inner Game of Work. Gallwey's seminal work is the "The Inner Game of Tennis", with more than one million copies in print.^[1]

In 1960, Gallwey was captain of the Harvard University Tennis Team, and later stated that the meditation techniques of Guru Maharaj Ji (Prem Rawat) enhanced his powers of concentration in a manner that improved his game.^[2] In an interview Gallwey gave to the New York Times in 1973, he described his discovery of Maharaj Ji in 1971, and his decision to live in an ashram and practice celibacy.^[3] He dedicated The Inner Game of Tennis to Maharaj Ji.^[4]

The "inner game" is based upon certain principles in which an individual uses non-judgmental observations of critical variables, with the purpose of being accurate about these observations. If the observations are accurate, the person's body will adjust and correct automatically to achieve best performance.^[5] Gallwey was one of the first to demonstrate a comprehensive method of coaching that could be applied to to many situations, and found himself lecturing more often to business leaders in the U.S. than to sports people.^[6]

Tim Gallwey's work went on to found the current move in business coaching, life coaching and executive coaching. One of the most well known exponents of business coaching is Sir John Whitmore, who popularised Graham Alexander's "GROW" model of the coaching process.^[6]

[edit] Books

Gallwey, W. Timothy (1997). The Inner Game of Tennis. New York: Random House. ISBN 0-679-77831-4.
Gallwey, W. Timothy (1998). The Inner Game of Golf. New York: Random House. ISBN 0-679-45760-7.
Tim Gallwey (1985). Inner Game of Winning. Listen USA. ISBN 0-88684-064-3.
Gallwey, W. Timothy; Green, Barry (1986). The inner game of music. New York: Anchor Press/Doubleday. ISBN 0-385-23126-1.
Gallwey, W. Timothy (2001). The Inner Game of Work : Focus, Learning, Pleasure, and Mobility in the Workplace. New York: Random House Trade Paperbacks. ISBN 0-375-75817-8.
Gallwey, W. Timothy; Kriegel, Robert J. (1997). Inner skiing. New York: Random House. ISBN 0-679-77827-6.

[edit] References

^ The Inner Game of Work.
^ du Plessix Gray, Francine, Blissing Out In Houston, New York Review of Books, December 13, 1973
^ Morgan, Ted, Oz in the Astrodom, New York Times, December 9, 1973, p.96
^ Anderson, Walter Truett. The Upstart Spring: Esalen and the Human Potential Movement iUniverse 2004, ISBN 0595307353 p. 259
^ Gallwey, W. Timothy (2000). The inner game of work. New York: Random House, p. 27. ISBN 0-375-50007-3.
^ ^a ^b Whitmore, John K. (2002). Coaching for Performance: Growing People, Performance and Purpose. London: Nicholas Brealey Publishing, p.10. ISBN 1-85788-303-9.