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The SAGE Handbook of Coaching presents a comprehensive, global view of the discipline, identifying the current issues and practices, as well as mapping out where the discipline is going. The Handbook is organized into six thematic sections: Part One: Positioning Coaching as a Discipline Part Two: Coaching as a Process Part Three: Common Issues in Coaching Part Four: Coaching in Contexts Part Five: Researching Coaching Part Six: Development of Coaches It provides the perfect reference point for graduate students, scholars, educators and researchers wishing to familiarize themselves with current research and debate in the academic and influential practitioners' literature on coaching.
Mindfulness and Coaching: Contemporary Labels for Timeless Practices?
Mindfulness and Coaching: Contemporary Labels for Timeless Practices?
Coaching has been described previously as an applied positive psychology (e.g. Kemp, 2004; Grant, 2009) and similarly, mindfulness has also come to find a comfortable philosophical and contextual home within the broader field of positive psychology (Langer, 2009). The exploration of mindfulness and coaching as a methodological partnership has attracted burgeoning theoretical and research interest in recent years. Whilst empirical investigations relating to the topic remain sparse, embryonic findings have yielded promising support for the efficacy of mindfulness techniques and practices when applied to a coaching context (Spence, Cavanagh & Grant, 2008).
It was Jon Kabat-Zinn (1990) who highlighted that mindfulness lay at the heart of Buddhist meditation, a ...
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