“The ability to claim our own place among other applied disciplines equips us coaches with the level of confidence that we need to serve our clients effectively.” “When you know who you are and how you are, others can see you more clearly and trust you and the work you are passionate about to deliver for them.”
Tünde Erdös - THE COACHING SCIENCE PRACTITIONER HANDBOOK
Why go to the edge?
“You were born with wings, why prefer to crawl through life?” Rumi
You may well ask why would anyone engage in research and put themselves through all of this? Here are a few things to consider:
The challenges you face are there and impact you whether you acknowledge them and choose to respond to them, or not;
The broader challenges of the 21st century affecting us all will not simply go away if we decide to ignore them;
The decision to shrink back into safety typically comes at a high cost. Are you prepared to pay the price of living a smaller life than you are capable of?
Maureen Owen - THE COACHING SCIENCE PRACTITIONER HANDBOOK
The Coaching Science Practitioner Handbook
The Coaching Science Practitioner Handbook helps you create a framework to improve your coaching practice. You learn that you need not be a doctorate student or academic researcher to be part of transformational studies. If you're having trouble finding a coaching style, business niche, or growing your career, it is time to ground yourself in knowledge to discover new more profitable ways to coach. Ineffective and unprofitable coaches sometimes wing it, thinking their natural talent is enough. Others are too inflexible and believe they have to follow well-known coaching formulas to replicate success.
The Coaching Science Practitioner Handbook shows you the inside workings of a research project through the eyes of the coaches who experienced it. The authors draw on proven ideas from psychology, technology, and others to create an easy-to-understand path to make good coaching inevitable and bad coaching impossible.
This book is co-authored by Tünde Erdös and Angelis Iglesias, and I contributed a chapter about my experiences and learning as a coach in a coaching research project. I was one of the ten coaches selected from 150 coaches that took part in the Coaching Presence Research by Tünde Erdös, MSc., MCC, EMCC Senior Practitioner, Ph.D. (c), a landmark study for the coaching profession and for those passionate about learning and professional development.
This ambitious book aims to exponentially expand the science of coaching by guiding and encouraging coaching practitioners to do research in their private practices and within organisations. It's filled with tools and know-how for real-world application and the personal stories and experiences of coaches and clients.
"My call to the edge I was to find myself at the edge again and again whilst participating in the research on coaching presence. ............... This is my story about what I discovered at the edge and how it transformed me." Maureen Owen - THE COACHING SCIENCE PRACTITIONER HANDBOOK
As Individual Coach Practitioner "For coaches research can play a vital role in elevating our skills and deepening our practice in ways that coach training, coach supervision and mentoring are not designed or able to do. As we practitioners engage in research, research has the potential to put us at the forefront of responding to the challenges of an increasingly complex and volatile world”.
Maureen Owen - THE COACHING SCIENCE PRACTITIONER HANDBOOK
Learn how to:
Ground your coaching practice in science
Develop your coaching style
Leverage and enrich more of your current approaches and processes
As a Profession “Rising to the challenges ahead of us calls each of us to draw on the fullness of our potential and our humanity. It can support us to engage in deeper levels of learning which in turn will enable us to stay relevant and credible. It will support us to enhance our capacity to respond to the difficulties and the opportunities that will present as we rise to meet the demands of the 21st century.”
Maureen Owen - THE COACHING SCIENCE PRACTITIONER HANDBOOK
