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.

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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.

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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.

Format Häftad Omfång 336 sidor Språk Engelska Förlag Sage Publications Ltd Utgivningsdatum 2012-07-23 ISBN 9781848601642