Coaching — Domain Index

Focused catalog of the 25 articles in wiki/coaching/. Cross-project consumers (e.g. coaching-prep sessions, client writeups) should read this first before drilling into specific pages. For the full KB map, see INDEX.

Core philosophy & practice

• coaching-philosophy — Core beliefs: courage over confidence, seeing/hearing/feeling clients, the tension between knowing and not-knowing
• coaching-journey — Jason's experience being coached (Caryn, Hamilton, Shruthi) and how it shaped his practice
• client-feedback-and-patterns — What clients value most: contextual memory, accountability, pattern recognition, credibility, empathy
• coaching-offerings — Current service tiers, Conviction Reset program, cofounder conflict packages, business model math
• authentic-pride-patterns — Signature two-hour intro-session exercise (Jessica Tracy's pride research) — note: file physically lives in frameworks/
• client-case-studies — Named roster of active and recent engagements: Splash One, Max/Tommy, Bivu/Esty, Daniel/Kyle, Nick Confrey, Nimit Maru, Yoshio Goto, Harsha Vankayalapati, Brooke Hartley Moy, Thomas Scaria, Lily Zhao, Ravi Bakhai, Abhishek Ray

Cofounder conflict — the most developed specialty

• cofounder-conflict-coaching — Archetypes of conflict, Gottman framework applied to startup partnerships, the "Back in Business" program
• cofounder-conflict-methodology — Hub page linking the core teaching frameworks below
  • cofounder-gottman-framework — 8 Gottman lessons: Four Horsemen, perpetual conflicts, 5:1 ratio, repair, friendship
  • cofounder-partnership-elements — Gallup's 8 Elements of successful partnerships with diagnostic questions
  • cofounder-recurring-conflicts — Old Wounds/Old Ways + externalization
  • cofounder-heart-to-heart — Weekly ritual: gratitude, stress, puzzles, hopes — the single highest-leverage habit
• cofounder-conflict-physiology — Emotional flooding, nervous system regulation, gymnastics-derived techniques, 5-step flooding protocol
• cofounder-communication-frameworks — Mind reading antidote, ACCEPTED validation ladder, positive reinforcement, curiosity imperative
• cofounder-adhd-dynamics — 8 ways ADHD founders work differently, neurological reframes, strengths, scaffolding

Sub-practices

• negotiation-coaching — Anchored by Nick Confrey (Tome → Meta L7, $1M signing bonus) and Ravi Bakhai (Voss vendor negotiations)
• winddown-and-acquisition-coaching — Founders at end of a company: "you've pre-suffered," Titanic chef, business artist, ring-bearer metaphor

Ed Batista (external influence)

• ed-batista — Executive coach, Stanford GSB lecturer, author of The Art of Self-Coaching. Hub for the distillations below.
  • ed-batista-on-conflict — Thomas-Kilmann five modes, strategic anger, "pasta shapes"
  • ed-batista-on-difficult-conversations — Five setup factors + yielding skill
  • ed-batista-on-trust — Trust as emotion, intent/judgment 2×2, Safety→Trust→Intimacy stack
  • ed-batista-on-founder-loneliness — "Friendship of wolves," solo-worker boundary discipline
  • ed-batista-on-crisis-and-risk — Self-care as crisis response, role-play, risk aversion as emotional reflex
  • ed-batista-on-startup-stages — Survival→focus, video-gaming→ditch-digging, family→tribe→village
  • ed-batista-on-emotion-regulation — Awareness/comprehension/reframing/expression
  • ed-batista-on-self-coaching-practices — Mindfulness, journaling, sleep, role-play, boundary construction

Related domains

When coaching work draws on behavior science or thinking frameworks, the real depth is in frameworks-index (behavior change, SDT, grit, purpose-meaning). When coaching touches on identity or fatherhood themes, see identity-index and personal-index. Full map: INDEX.