Ontological coaching is not about compelling people to act in different ways but about creating spaces for them in which they can choose to move differently. There are many parallels between effective coaching and effective leadership. These parallels also allow us to look at leadership in a different way … how to generate spaces for […]
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The dominant players in the world of ontological coaching and its underpinning philosophy are commercial entities namely Newfield Network, The Ontological Coaching Institute and Newfield Consulting. Their focus is largely on coach training and personal growth with some coaching and consulting activities. The development of the ontological theory has appeared to have been largely left
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As it is taught through the Newfield tradition, ontological coaching involves generating shifts in a coachee’s ‘way of being‘. Our way of being is not a fixed state but one of continual change and the role of the ontological coach is to work with others to design a way of being that the coachee assesses
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I have been involved in the world of ontological coaching since 1994. This potted history speaks to my understanding of how it generally evolved. Ontological coaching blossomed as a discipline in the 1990s. It predominantly stems from the work of Fernando Flores who brought together ideas from Martin Heidegger, J. L. Austin, John Searle and