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Coaching and Mentoring
Simon Western
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Description for Coaching and Mentoring
Paperback. A fresh and critical perspective on coaching and mentoring challenges commonly held assumptions about the field. Num Pages: 336 pages, black & white illustrations, black & white line drawings, figures. BIC Classification: KJMV2. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 240 x 170 x 19. Weight in Grams: 522.
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 and 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:
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 and 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:
1. The Soul Guide Coach: coaching the ′inner-self′, focusing on values, authenticity and identity.
2. The Psy Coach: coaching the ′outer-self′, using ... Read more
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.
Product Details
Publisher
SAGE Publications Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
336
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
Number of Pages
336
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781848601642
SKU
V9781848601642
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About Simon Western
Simon Western is CEO and founder of Analytic-Network Coaching Ltd, an avant-garde coaching company whose purpose is to ‘coach leaders to act in good faith to create the good society’ www.analyticnetwork.com. He is an internationally recognized thought leader on leadership, coaching and organizational behaviour. Taking his unique experience and an unusual theoretical position into the workplace, he draws on critical ... Read more
Reviews for Coaching and Mentoring
′In my view the Psy Expert Discourse chapter is in a class by itself. The theme here is the influence of psychology and psychotherapy on coaching. The author analyses this impact by taking different current psychotherapeutic approaches as points of departure. All are strutinized in terms of strengths and weaknesses they imply for coaches′ - Gunnela Weslander International ... Read more