ABSTRACT

When we extend the framing of coaching beyond primarily the application of models and tools for facilitating one to one learning, it is possible to begin to consider a host of factors that subtly and not so subtly come together to inform the coach-coachee-context constellation. Intersubjective, Gestalt relational psychoanalytic and neuroscience perspectives all point to the transformative potential of conversation and relationship. Quantum perspectives suggest that how we look determines in large part what we see. The chapter concentrates on seeing organisations as social and complex fields of interaction. The experience of early interactions, as we have seen, establishes deep and unique patterns of attachment, which in turn impact the capacity coach and coachee will have for relating, regulating anxiety, reflecting and making meaning. Knowing, meaning and change are seen as properties emerging from the interaction and dynamics between coach and coachee.