Timothy Gallwey

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.cite web |url=http://ebooks.ebookmall.com/title/inner-game-of-work-gallwey-ebooks.htm |title=The Inner Game of Work | W. TIMOTHY GALLWEY | Business | Careers | eBooks |format= |work= |accessdate=]

In 1960, Gallwey was captain of the Harvard University Tennis Team. In the 1970s he learned the meditation techniques of the Divine Light Mission's Guru Maharaj Ji, which Gallwey said enhanced his powers of concentration in a manner that improved his game. [du Plessix Gray, Francine, "Blissing Out In Houston", New York Review of Books, December 13, 1973] In a 1973 "New York Times" article he described his discovery of Maharaj Ji and his decision to live in an ashram and practice celibacy. [Morgan, Ted, "Oz in the Astrodom", New York Times, December 9, 1973, p.96] In 1997, Gallwey dedicated his book, "The Inner Game of Tennis", to him. [Anderson, Walter Truett. "The Upstart Spring: Esalen and the Human Potential Movement" iUniverse 2004, ISBN 0595307353 p. 259]

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.cite book |author=Gallwey, W. Timothy |title=The inner game of work |publisher=Random House |location=New York |year=2000 |pages=p. 27 |isbn=0-375-50007-3 |oclc= |doi= |accessdate=] Gallwey was one of the first to demonstrate a comprehensive method of coaching that could be applied to many situations, and found himself lecturing more often to business leaders in the U.S. than to sports people.cite book |author=Whitmore, John K. |title=Coaching for Performance: Growing People, Performance and Purpose |publisher=Nicholas Brealey Publishing |location=London |year=2002 |pages=p.10 |isbn=1-85788-303-9 |oclc= |doi= |accessdate=]

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.

Books

*cite book |author=Gallwey, W. Timothy |title=The Inner Game of Tennis |publisher=Random House |location=New York |year=1997 |pages= |isbn=0-679-77831-4 |oclc= |doi= |accessdate=
*cite book |author=Gallwey, W. Timothy |title=The Inner Game of Golf |publisher=Random House |location=New York |year=1998 |pages= |isbn=0-679-45760-7 |oclc= |doi= |accessdate=
*cite book |author=Tim Gallwey |title=Inner Game of Winning |publisher=Listen USA |location= |year=1985 |pages= |isbn=0-88684-064-3 |oclc= |doi= |accessdate=
*cite book |author=Gallwey, W. Timothy; Green, Barry |title=The inner game of music |publisher=Anchor Press/Doubleday |location=New York |year=1986 |pages= |isbn=0-385-23126-1 |oclc= |doi= |accessdate=
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References

External links

* [http://www.theinnergame.com/index.html The Inner Game] official site
* [http://www.bigspeak.com/tim-gallwey.html Tim Gallwey Page at BigSpeak]