We turn once again to the fundamental choice that Erik Erikson first identified when describing the stages of adult development: generativity or stagnation?

William Bergquist and Gary Quehl Generativity is about caring for that which should be cared for, and this includes the ongoing presence of critical societal values. It is about caring not just for a specific person, organization or community. It is about caring for an idea, for the history of action and achievement, for a particular artifact (e.g., painting, building) …

William Bergquist and Gary Quehl Random events become strange attractors. They call to us and require our attention. They form an alliance with our inner voices. Suddenly other events begin to organize around this attractor and form a constellation or psychic “pothole” of activities, interests and dreams.  This essay concerns these events and how they lead us to new challenges—and …

We propose that each of the four roles tends to be center stage at a specific time in our life.

William Bergquist and Gary Quehl We are ready to “set the stage” for our in-depth analysis of each deep caring role. We begin this analysis by turning to the word “stage” itself–a word that has several different meanings when the nature of deep caring is being addressed. We use this concept in two different, though related, ways. The first is …

We express and experience generativity through the enactment of four different, though interrelated, deep caring roles.

Welcome to this digital magazine that addresses the important issue in our contemporary world about what “caring deeply” really means – and how an understanding of the caring process, in all of its dimensions, can be of great value to anyone involved in the professional coaching enterprise. Five Reasons to Read the Essays in This Digital Magazine . First, deep …

There are many choices available to each of us during a lifetime. These choices can lead us to a self-renewing life or to stagnation and decline.

The author and other members of the Hudson Institute are able to appreciate the diversity and richness of multidimensional roots and the value of a broad pool of theoretical orientations informing this burgeoning field of coaching

Rather than reflecting on where the state of personal and life coaching are right now, we are looking at trending that has been done over the past five years and projecting these trends forward.