As coaches and facilitators, we are often in the vicinity of the unconscious mind and its strategies. In trying to understand unconscious communication – including slips of the tongue, physical and other symptoms and it seems, accidents – we may be accused of making too much of certain events. However, in my experience, if we want to get to the root of some dis-ease, it may be precisely necessary to (with extra caution) try to understand what the indirect communication of the unconscious mind may be telling us. This article (sent to me by my publisher Dominique le Roux) explains how it may sometimes work: