Coaching and Mentoring

A Critical Text
1. Auflage 2012
ISBN: 978-1-84860-163-5
Verlag: Sage Publications

Buch, Englisch, 336 Seiten, Format (B × H): 173 mm x 244 mm, Gewicht: 703 g

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 psychological techniques to focus on personal performance and how we relate to others.

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

4. 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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Western, Simon

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychologische Disziplinen Coaching, Training, Supervision
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Coaching, Training, Supervision
• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Berufliche Bildung Coaching, Training, Supervision

Inhaltsverzeichnis

About the Author
Acknowledgements
Introduction: Coaching - the Merger of the 'Wounded-Self' and 'Celebrated-Self'
PART ONE: SCOPING THE FIELD WITH A CRITICAL LENS
A Critical Theory Approach To Coaching
Scoping The Field: Definitions and Divergence of Practice
PART TWO: FROM FRIENDSHIP TO COACHING: A BRIEF GENEALOGY OF COACHING
Introduction
Pre-Modernity: Helping Relationships
Modernity: Experts, Tools and Technology
Post-Modernity: Coaching Hybridity
Conclusion
PART THREE: THE DOMINANT DISCOURSES OF COACHING
Introduction
The Soul Guide Discourse: A Mirror to the Soul
The Psy Expert Discourse: Coaching the Outward Self
The Managerial Discourse: Coaching the Role Self
The Network Coach Discourse: Influencing the Network
Discourse Mapping: Coaching across and between Discourses
PART FOUR: THE FUTURE OF COACHING
Developing Coaching Theory
Creating a New Coaching Meta-Theory: The Micro-Practices and the Macro-Social of Coaching
Coaching Formation: Coach Education and Pedagogies
Epilogue
Appendix
References
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Western, Simon
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 theory, networked theory, social movement theory and psychoanalysis to help leaders develop new insights, act ethically and create progressive change in organizations.

Simon leads advanced coaching and leadership training courses to develop new ‘Eco-leadership’ approaches to help leaders adapt to today’s disruptive, network society. With over 200 registered coaches across the globe, Analytic-Network Coaching is growing fast. He shares his thinking as an international keynote speaker, academic and is author of three acclaimed books; Global Leadership Perspectives, Insights and Analysis (with Eric-Jean Gautier), Leadership: A Critical Text (3rd edn: Sage, 2019) and Coaching and Mentoring: A Critical Text (Sage 2012). Simon works directly with senior leaders on radical change strategies, organizational change and in-depth on personal and leadership challenges, drawing on his psychotherapist background.