Engaging in transformative dialogues is at the heart of this book, as Reinhard Stelter explores their significance in everyday work life. Divided into three parts, it offers a comprehensive overview of dialogue's importance and practical tools to enhance communication. Readers will discover how to foster meaningful conversations that can lead to personal and professional growth.
Narrative-Collaborative Theory and Practice
Focusing on an innovative coaching psychology approach, this book emphasizes the importance of fostering self-reflection over simply finding solutions. It advocates for collaborative practices between coaches and clients, creating a supportive environment that encourages deeper exploration and personal growth. This method shifts the traditional coaching dynamic, prioritizing the process of reflection and understanding.
This book proposes third generation coaching in a form where the coach and the coaches are less concerned with solutions and more concerned with creating space for (self- )reflection through collaborative practices. Offering a revisited and innovative approach to coaching psychology, advantageous for learners and practitioners alike. It marks a new trend in coaching and has a special profile, based on the acknowledgement of changes in society, learning and knowledge production, as well as leadership. The author's concept of coaching distinguishes itself from the existing models (pop coaching, GROW model, etc) by offering a fresh analysis of our society--a society that is characterised by diversification, identity challenges, abolition of the monopoly of knowledge, lifelong learning, the necessity for self-reflection, etc. These societal changes are the basis for the existence of coaching and its prevalence, but they must also be the foundation for the way we employ coaching
The book is a collection of the keynote addresses of the 11th European Congress of Sport Psychology in Copenhagen, July 2003, including three further articles, one from the president of the congress, Reinhard Stelter, one from the winner of the Young Researchers award, and one from the new president of FEPSAC.