We need a return to the core values and principles of what we do as coaches and mentors. We need to celebrate diversity and complexity, we need to strip down the materialist hierarchy and work on a peer basis.

This article explores the potential for detrimental consequences and inappropriateness of imposing mandatory 'supervision' on coaching practitioners, versus the established mentor coach approach.

A model of innovation diffusion, offered by Everett Rogers, has guided the thinking and perspectives of many people. This model is applied to the ways in which a professional coach might assist her client.