I will be engaging Rorty’s concept of irony throughout the multi-dimensional analysis that is to follow.

As professional coaches we can assist our clients in becoming more appreciative of Rorty’s “unfamiliar sorts of people” and the unfamiliar thoughts and “truths” that accompany these people.

At the heart of the concept of generativity resides the process of caring, and the transformation that occurs in this caring process during one's lifetime,

In July of 2017, we wrote: We are publishing the things you as coaches want to share with your peers.   You might consider it a digital conversation of show-and-tell to contribute to people who, like you, are craftspeople of the soul.  When you sit down for coffee or a meal with your coaching friends, what do you share about how …

An evidence-based foundation for coach training and contracting of coaching services is a desired outcome of the research that is being conducted.

I recently was talking to a man living in our community who I have come to respect and who has become something of a teacher for me. His name is Keven O’Brian and he served for many years on a US Aircraft Carrier – the Lexington. Keven told me that the flight deck on an aircraft carrier is one of …

During this fifth year (2018) in publishing The Future of Coaching we made the unprecedented decision to devote three of the four issues to coaching in one sector of society: health care. The first two issues focused on the coaching of healthcare professionals (especially physicians). In this fourth issue, we look at health-related coaching from a different perspective—that of those …

Practitioners of health-based coaching can engage in one or more of the coaching strategies associated with each of four tiers.

In this essay, we rely on a script that has already been written by the original playwright, Erik Erikson—and by subsequent authors and researchers in the field of adult development.

We begin our investigation of generativity with child-rearing and project-building because of the lingering impact these early forms of mature caring have on our lives.