I work on a theological reflection of coaching. I would like to list some basic directions/approaches/ways/schools that differ each other.
My attempt:
- Neuroscience based coaching
- Systemic coaching
- NLP coaching
- Narrative coaching.
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$\begingroup$ This might be a better fit in the personal productivity SE? $\endgroup$– KrystaCommented Dec 17, 2014 at 16:47
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1$\begingroup$ Alternatively, could you give us some links and some justification as to why you think it fits on this site? $\endgroup$– Seanny123Commented Dec 17, 2014 at 18:11
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1$\begingroup$ @Krysta & Seanny123 Coaches are often psychologists and psychotherapists. Coaching is a regular topic of academic psychological education. $\endgroup$– user3116Commented Dec 18, 2014 at 10:43
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Coaching is not as well researched and not as well conceptualized as for example psychotherapy. There are no clear and distinct schools and approaches, especially since many certifying institutes require by contract that the coaches they train must not disclose the copyrighted methods to third parties.
Generally, literature on coaching and the reports of coaches show that coaching uses a "toolbox" of methods taken from any and all schools of psychotherapy (from behavioral therapy to humanistic therapy to Gestalt therapy to psychoanalysis to systemic therapy and so on) and sociology as well as other, even New Age methods (see for example Rupert, 1992) of personality development, most prominently NLP. Usually the tools are used in an eclectic, "experimental" (try-what-works) manner. Rarely is there a theoretic "framing" of methodology (one example is Schmidt-Lellek & Schreyögg, 2008, who use a phenomenological frame).
Sources:
- (I'm currently enrolled in a psychological seminar on methods in and evaluation of coaching)
- Rupert, G. (1992). Employing the New Age: training seminars. In J. R. Lewis & J. G. Melton (Eds.), Perspectives on the New Age. Albany, NY: SUNY Press., 127-35.
- Schmidt-Lellek, C. J., & Schreyögg, A. (Eds.) (2008). Praxeologie des Coaching. Wiesbaden: VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften