(Ebook) The Theory and Practice of Relational Coaching : Complexity, Paradox and Integration by Simon Cavicchia, Maria Gilbert ISBN 9780415643252, 9780415643245, 9780429469510, 0415643252, 0415643244, 0429469519

(Ebook) The Theory and Practice of Relational Coaching : Complexity, Paradox and Integration by Simon Cavicchia, Maria Gilbert ISBN 9780415643252, 9780415643245, 9780429469510, 0415643252, 0415643244, 0429469519

The 'relational turn' is a movement affecting a range of disciplines including neuroscience, psychoanalysis, psychotherapy, organisational consulting and, more recently, coaching. Its primary focus is on the centrality of human relating in determining how individuals develop, make meaning and function individually and collectively.In The Theory and Practice of Relational Coaching: Complexity, Paradox and Integration, Simon Cavicchia and Maria Gilbert expand existing coaching theory and practice to focus on the implications of the relational turn for how coaches and clients think about the nature of identity, the self, change, learning, and individual and organisational development. Drawing on perspectives as varied as relational neuroscience, the relational foundations of personality development, psychoanalysis, psychotherapy, shame, vulnerability, complexity and systems ideas, the authors shed light on many of the paradoxes and challenges facing coaches and their clients in today’s fast-paced, volatile and uncertain organisational environments. These include holding tensions such as the uniqueness of individual needs with the requirements of organisational contexts, managing multiple stakeholder expectations and networks and balancing linear approaches to change with adjusting to emerging and unpredictable events.