Exploring metaphor use and its insight into sense making with executive coaching clients
The difficulty coaches face in relating to and understanding how clients perceive and interpret situations is that the process for clients making sense of situations is unconscious. This presents a challenge, as there isn’t a direct or obvious route to access a client’s unconscious. Understanding cl...
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2016-06-01
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| description | The difficulty coaches face in relating to and understanding how clients perceive and interpret situations is that the process for clients making sense of situations is unconscious. This presents a challenge, as there isn’t a direct or obvious route to access a client’s unconscious. Understanding clients’ use of metaphor offers a potential route to access this unconscious process and gain insight into clients’ sense making. The research adopted a critical realism paradigm and used a thematic analysis methodology with semi-structured interviews of eight executive leaders. The findings suggest that metaphor can offer insight into participants’ character and values, and coaches and leaders can use an approach of working with metaphor as a potential route to reveal and understand individuals’ unconscious sense making. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-6591be0f111a497e886750c5e92fbefc2024-01-03T22:11:20ZengOxford Brookes UniversityInternational Journal of Evidence Based Coaching and MentoringXXXX-XXXX1741-83052016-06-01S105975Exploring metaphor use and its insight into sense making with executive coaching clientsNigel EmsonThe difficulty coaches face in relating to and understanding how clients perceive and interpret situations is that the process for clients making sense of situations is unconscious. This presents a challenge, as there isn’t a direct or obvious route to access a client’s unconscious. Understanding clients’ use of metaphor offers a potential route to access this unconscious process and gain insight into clients’ sense making. The research adopted a critical realism paradigm and used a thematic analysis methodology with semi-structured interviews of eight executive leaders. The findings suggest that metaphor can offer insight into participants’ character and values, and coaches and leaders can use an approach of working with metaphor as a potential route to reveal and understand individuals’ unconscious sense making.https://radar.brookes.ac.uk/radar/file/70a53d6f-b624-44a8-b6d3-d6db8f27c345/1/special10-paper-05.pdfcoachingmetaphorsense makingcoaching psychology |
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| title | Exploring metaphor use and its insight into sense making with executive coaching clients |
| title_full | Exploring metaphor use and its insight into sense making with executive coaching clients |
| title_fullStr | Exploring metaphor use and its insight into sense making with executive coaching clients |
| title_full_unstemmed | Exploring metaphor use and its insight into sense making with executive coaching clients |
| title_short | Exploring metaphor use and its insight into sense making with executive coaching clients |
| title_sort | exploring metaphor use and its insight into sense making with executive coaching clients |
| topic | coaching metaphor sense making coaching psychology |
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