Metaphors can be described in different ways. For me, the simplest way to explain these is that a metaphor is a figure of speech that rhetorically describes one thing by referring to another. In doing so, it pulls out the hidden similarities in both situations. Examples of some widely used metaphors are: The world is a Stage or She has a heart of gold. I am sure we might have used these in our general conversations. Its use in coaching is interesting. Coaching is both a convergent and divergent process. We use both throughout the entire coaching conversation. We diverge to share experiences and feelings, get ideas, evoke possibilities, and open the mind and we then converge to select a few of these for action. As we can well imagine-it’s the opening the mind and heart to sharing that often becomes difficult for most people. And yet, we cannot gain from the coaching conversation if we are not sharing what’s happening with us, our current situation, and how we see it. Coaching conversati