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Coaching and mentoring: a critical text

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Coaching and Mentoring: A Critical Text is a unique contribution to the field. It traces coaching influences back to pre-modern times showing connections with ‘soul healers’ of the past, taking a journey through modernity to post-modernity making links that helps us better understand coaching today. Positioning coaching as working between the 'wounded-self' (of therapeutic culture) and 'celebrated-self' (of the human potential movement), it reveals four discourses that underpin contemporary coaching practice:

The Soul Guide Coach: coaching the 'inner-self', focusing on values, authenticity and identity.

The Psy Coach: coaching the 'outer-self', using psychological techniques to focus on personal performance and how we relate to others.

The Managerial Coach, coaching the 'role-self', focusing on work, task, output and productivity.

The Network Coach, coaching the 'networked-self', focusing on the wider networks in which we live and work.

 

This vital new book brings a fresh and critical perspective on coaching and mentoring, challenging its taken-for-granted assumptions and narratives. It is written by a practitioner-scholar, and develops an exciting vision for coaching today.

 

Key features:

 

- Accounts for the diverse influences on contemporary coaching practice

 

- Reveals how coaching is the new 'post-modern confessional'

 

- Develops a meta-theory of coaching that acts as a baseline for future developments

 

- Offers frames of thinking to guide coaching and mentoring practitioners and educators.

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Sage Publications
1446264610 / 9781446264614
eBook (Adobe Pdf)
18/07/2012
England
English
320 pages
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