ABSTRACT

The Evidence-Based Practitioner Coach gives a descriptive, phenomenological understanding of human development through the lens of the Integrated Experiential Learning Process, and how it can be applied in coaching.

Aimed at coaches who would like to ground their experience in an evidence-based practitioner model, it synthesises evidence and theory from a range of disciplines, exploring how we learn through a complex process involving brain, body and social relationships, and facilitated consciously and unconsciously through the central and autonomic nervous systems. It applies this understanding to a range of settings, contexts and environments. The book notably combines the fascinating knowledge produced by cutting-edge research with useful, practical methodologies developed by some of the wisest observers of humanity. Its sheer readability, in an engagingly down-to-earth and warmly human way, helps make the contents readily accessible to coach practitioners and others from non-academic backgrounds.

Rigorous and erudite, this book would be suitable for business coaches, corporate executives, senior managers, and human resource specialists, and provides an invaluable contribution to what it means to be a scientist-practitioner within the evolving profession of coaching.

chapter |7 pages

Introduction

chapter Chapter 1|29 pages

Complex responsive processes and experiential learning

chapter Chapter 2|53 pages

The physiology of learning

chapter Chapter 3|34 pages

Movement and experiential learning

chapter Chapter 4|44 pages

Human development models

chapter Chapter 5|18 pages

Research methodology

chapter Chapter 9|9 pages

Coaching presence

chapter Chapter 10|7 pages

Being a scientist-practitioner