The co-created boundary: negotiating the limits of coaching
This paper explores how business coaches experience the boundary between coaching and therapy in their practice. Using a phenomenological approach, four therapeutically trained and four non-therapeutically trained coaches were asked to describe instances when they felt they were working near the ‘bo...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford Brookes University
2009-11-01
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| Series: | International Journal of Evidence Based Coaching and Mentoring |
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| Online Access: | https://radar.brookes.ac.uk/radar/file/4404103e-62fa-4e61-9be5-6259eff84ac5/1/special03-paper-07.pdf |
| Summary: | This paper explores how business coaches experience the boundary between coaching and therapy in their practice. Using a phenomenological approach, four therapeutically trained and four non-therapeutically trained coaches were asked to describe instances when they felt they were working near the ‘boundary’. Findings suggest that issues of a psychological nature are brought into coaching, and that the ‘boundary’ is largely a function of the willingness and ability of both coach and client to work with personal/psychological material. Differences in working practice were noted between and within the two groups. Findings also give impetus for more rigorous coach training as well as suggesting a potentially fruitful tool for use in coach supervision. |
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| ISSN: | XXXX-XXXX 1741-8305 |