What’s next? A Manifesto on the Future of Coaching
The manifesto was born from conversations with peers; it is intended to spark more of them by engaging people in shaping the future of coaching. I will use one manifesto question each week as the basis for a blog post in which I offer some commentary and invite you to join in. The goal is to generate conversations that yield new ideas, new projects, new partnerships and a new awareness of what is happening out there. It will give us a good sense for the pulse of the field and good insights about where to aim this part of the site.
For now, I’m posting the entire manifesto as a way to make the vision more tangible and to get us started.
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Comment by Jonathan Sibley on 18 February 2008:
Hi David,
I’ve downloaded your Manifesto and I’m looking forward to reading it and commenting on it. When you have a minute, would you write a bit on the coaching and psychotherapy thread about how you categorize the relationship between narrative therapy and narrative coaching?
Do you see much difference in the processes involved or is it more about differences between the clients involved, or something else entirely? In particular, how would someone trained as both therapist and coach work differently with their “narrative coach hat” on vs with a “narrative therapist hat”, if at all?