Existential Coaching Psychology

In this article I seek to elaborate a model of existential coaching psychology that is both grounded in existential phenomenological philosophy but also informed by work in coaching. To date, many attempts to develop an existential approach to coaching have – in my view – described an approach to co...

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Main Author: Darren Langdridge
Format: Article
Language:Danish
Published: Aalborg Universitet 2012-11-01
Series:Coaching Psykologi: The Danish Journal of Coaching Psychology
Online Access:https://somaesthetics.aau.dk/index.php/CP/article/view/239
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spelling doaj-c04ccef48c44497f8fc648366484ce9c2021-02-27T14:17:19ZdanAalborg UniversitetCoaching Psykologi: The Danish Journal of Coaching Psychology2244-96982012-11-012110.5278/ojs.cp.v2i1.239Existential Coaching PsychologyDarren LangdridgeIn this article I seek to elaborate a model of existential coaching psychology that is both grounded in existential phenomenological philosophy but also informed by work in coaching. To date, many attempts to develop an existential approach to coaching have – in my view – described an approach to coaching that is either indistinguishable from existential counselling and psychotherapy or a rather crude form of technical eclecticism. In this article, I discuss the key elements of existential coaching, as I understand it, and the need to modify the existential therapeutic approach for coaching practise. To this end, I draw on extant work on coaching and, in particular, the need for both a goal and solution directed approach if an existential model of psychological coaching is going to provide the basis for effective practise.https://somaesthetics.aau.dk/index.php/CP/article/view/239
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description In this article I seek to elaborate a model of existential coaching psychology that is both grounded in existential phenomenological philosophy but also informed by work in coaching. To date, many attempts to develop an existential approach to coaching have – in my view – described an approach to coaching that is either indistinguishable from existential counselling and psychotherapy or a rather crude form of technical eclecticism. In this article, I discuss the key elements of existential coaching, as I understand it, and the need to modify the existential therapeutic approach for coaching practise. To this end, I draw on extant work on coaching and, in particular, the need for both a goal and solution directed approach if an existential model of psychological coaching is going to provide the basis for effective practise.
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