Pluralistic Coaching? A controversy waiting to happen.
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“How do coaches perceive the potential value of the Pluralistic approach to counselling and psychotherapy as a framework for
coaching?"
1. Coaching draws many theories and approaches from counselling and psychotherapy
2. The history of counselling and psychotherapy is a history of turf wars between the different approaches
3. Conditions are ripe for coaching to engage in (what I consider to be) similar time-wasting and pointless turf wars
4. I perceive the pluralistic approach to potentially offer a way out of this blind alley
Time ripe for coaching turf wars
• International Coaching Federation
• European Council for Mentoring & Coaching
• Association for Coaching• Association of Integrative
Coach Therapists• BACP Coaching Division• BPS Coaching Psychology
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“How do coaches perceive the potential value of the Pluralistic approach to counselling and psychotherapy as a framework for coaching?"
The Final Table• Superordinate themes and sub-themes • • 1) Initial responses to the pluralistic approach• Sub-theme: The boundary between coaching and therapy • • 2) The concept of greater collaboration at odds with the • practice of it• • 3) Response to drawing from diverse sources• Sub-theme: Absence of the pluralistic and postmodern in • participant’s responses • • 4) Adapting the pluralistic approach for coaching• Sub-theme: Structure in the pluralistic approach• Sub-theme: Possible benefits of using the approach for• participants