{"product_id":"9781848601642","title":"Coaching and Mentoring : A Critical Text by Simon Western","description":"Coaching and Mentoring: A Critical Text is a unique contribution to the field. It traces coaching influences back to pre-modern times showing connections with `soul healers' of the past, taking a journey through modernity to post-modernity and making links that helps us better understand coaching today. Positioning coaching as working between the 'wounded-self' (of therapeutic culture) and 'celebrated-self' (of the human potential movement), it reveals four discourses that underpin contemporary coaching practice:  1. The Soul Guide Coach: coaching the 'inner-self', focusing on values, authenticity and identity.       2. The Psy Coach: coaching the 'outer-self', using psychological techniques to focus on personal performance and how we relate to others.       3. The Managerial Coach: coaching the 'role-self', focusing on work, task, output and productivity.       4. The Network Coach: coaching the 'networked-self', focusing on the wider networks in which we live and work.     This vital new book brings a fresh and critical perspective on coaching and mentoring, challenging its taken-for-granted assumptions and narratives. It is written by a practitioner-scholar, and develops an exciting vision for coaching today.     Key features:  Accounts for the diverse influences on contemporary coaching practiceReveals how coaching is the new 'post-modern confessional'Develops a meta-theory of coaching that acts as a baseline for future developmentsOffers frames of thinking to guide coaching and mentoring practitioners and educators.\u003cbr\u003eBinding: Paperback \/ softback","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56308606009717,"sku":"9781848601642","price":56.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781848601642.jpg?v=1762808198","url":"https:\/\/backstory.london\/products\/9781848601642","provider":"Backstory","version":"1.0","type":"link"}