ABSTRACT
In this chapter, the author have attempted to show how relating to the group and building with what is emerging from the group's activity is a foundational part of how a social therapeutic coach leads. Across nearly all examples, the coach speaks in ways that are supportive of both the group/couple and the individual at the same time. With 40 years of evidence of its success, social therapeutics is a methodological as well as an ontological break with what has come before in the modern history of addressing emotional pain. It empowers the coach and clients to co-create with the material they bring to group—their emotions, judgements, fears, history, philosophical questions and values. The tool-and-result methodology of social therapeutics is a breakthrough in understanding human development. This is the performed activity that Newman and Holzman call for as a path forward.
