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What’s next? A Manifesto on the Future of Coaching

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Published: February 18, 2008 under Archived Featured Articles

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The manifesto was born from conversations with peers; it is intended to spark more of them by engaging people in shaping the future of coaching. I will use one manifesto question each week as the basis for a blog post in which I offer some commentary and invite you to join in. The goal is to generate conversations that yield new ideas, new projects, new partnerships and a new awareness of what is happening out there. It will give us a good sense for the pulse of the field and good insights about where to aim this part of the site.

For now, I’m posting the entire manifesto as a way to make the vision more tangible and to get us started.

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David B. Drake, Ph.D., is one of The Coaching Commons' lead Pot Stirrers; he is especially passionate about the future of coaching and a proponent of living an active legacy. A gifted storyteller and prodigious creator of intellectual property, we hope David will grace us with some of his video and audio creations here as well. David is the Director of the Center for Narrative Coaching in northern California (USA), an international speaker and the pioneer in bringing narrative approaches in coaching.

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Jonathan Sibley on February 18, 2008

Hi David,

I’ve downloaded your Manifesto and I’m looking forward to reading it and commenting on it. When you have a minute, would you write a bit on the coaching and psychotherapy thread about how you categorize the relationship between narrative therapy and narrative coaching?

Do you see much difference in the processes involved or is it more about differences between the clients involved, or something else entirely? In particular, how would someone trained as both therapist and coach work differently with their “narrative coach hat” on vs with a “narrative therapist hat”, if at all?

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