ABSTRACT
Relational coaching requires both backbone and heart, both rigour and relationship. The business world is ready for coaching that emphasises the need for integrating and developing qualities of both "will and grace"; where "will" can be defined as "directed action" and ability to initiate, and "grace" as a quality of "receptivity" and responsiveness. A key difference between relational gestalt psychotherapy and relational organisational gestalt (ROG) coaching is that the latter process is primarily an aspect of an organisational process rather than a private individual initiative. ROG coaching aims to develop the coachee's relational competencies by exploring his or her relational needs and then examining how these are met, with other people. The following four key dimensions capture aspects of the uniqueness of ROG Coaching: dialogic dimension, the working alliance, developmental dimension and the field/contextual dimension.
