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.

Coaching for Post-Traumatic Growth: An Appropriate Response to the Devastations of Life?

Coaching for Post-Traumatic Growth: An Appropriate Response to the Devastations of Life?

Coaching for Post-Traumatic Growth: An Appropriate Response to the Devastations of Life?
Gordon SpenceStephen Joseph

INTRODUCTION

Healing stories can touch our hearts and help us understand that life is a series of challenges – not all good, not all bad. Healing stories can help us expand our consciousness so that we can see our lives and the world in new ways. Yes, telling and hearing stories can be powerful medicine. (Carol, 2004, p.16)

This chapter acknowledges the human capacity to deal well with, and benefit from, profoundly challenging circumstances. More specifically, it focuses on the suitability of using coaching to help people grow through traumatic experiences. The pairing of such topics is highly unusual in the ...

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