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Robert Hargrove’s background includes being an editor, publisher, and author who has been involved with personal growth since the 1960s. In 1975 Hargrove wrote a “firsthand report on the self-expanding est experience.”
Hargrove was editor/publisher of the East West Journal from 1972 to 1974 and initially took the est training with his staff to develop a language and a common basis of experience to improve communication. The outcome shifted their intellectual concepts to experiential realities.
When I entered coaching in 1995, the first coaching book I discovered was Masterful Coaching which used terms, such as transformation and breakthrough thinking, from Werner Erhard’s est philosophy. Believing human possibility and motivation are foundational for coaching, Hargrove (in 1995) states, “masterful coaching is about empowering people to create a future they truly desire based on unearthing what they passionately care about” (p. 20).
Hargrove called this new style of management “transformational coaching” (p. 1), because it shows people how to transform or stretch their visions, values, and abilities.
What influence has Robert Hargrove’s philosophy and writings had on you as a coach?
Vikki Brock, PhD, MCC
Director, History and Archives Division
The Coaching Commons
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Vikki, I continue to enjoy reading this column of The Coaching Commons. Like you, “Masterful Coaching” was one of the first books that I read when I began to learn about the profession and business of coaching in 2000. The complementary work, the “Masterful Coaching Fieldbook”, published in 2000, was especially helpful to me. It is dog-eared and heavily tabbed with Post-its and continues to be a favorite resource today.