Coaching and Mentoring

Coaching is often discussed as if it is a new ?profession? without adequate attention to how it has evolved what underpins its practice or its training methods. Situating coaching in a wider social and historical context Coaching and Mentoring that contemporary ?coaching theory? is more a collection of models and approaches mostly transferred from psychotherapy theory. Coaching claims to liberate creativity but can also entrap us by individualizing social experience. This vital new book brings a fresh and critical perspective on coaching and mentoring challenging its normative assumptions and narratives and proposing an ethical and emancipatory approach that takes it beyond instrumentalism and individualism.