Reflective Practice for Coaches: A Guidebook for Advanced Professional Development

This guide provides a practical and evidence-based approach to running Reflective Practice professional development programs for coaches, covering topics such as individual reflection, working in pairs and groups, applying reflective practice in training, and running advanced group sessions. It is written by a highly experienced executive coach and includes workbook exercises and an evidence-based guide to enhancing skills in recently developed areas such as Unified Protocol Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, Internet Supplemented Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, and Schema Therapy with Mindfulness Techniques.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 322 pages
Publication date: 22 February 2023
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd

This comprehensive and evidence-based guide to running Reflective Practice professional development programmes offers a dynamic and engaging resource for a wide range of coaches. Reflective Practice is a proven learning and development approach that involves consciously and deliberately thinking about experiences to develop insights and apply these within coaching practice. McCormick emphasizes the importance of coaches regularly reflecting on their work to develop and grow professionally, and this book provides a definitive and rich source of material on how and what to reflect on. The topics covered include how to reflect as an individual coach, working in pairs and small groups, applying reflective practice in a training context, and running advanced group sessions for coaches.

The book features a wide range of practical workbook exercises to challenge the readers' current practice and extend their capability, as well as an evidence-based guide to enhancing skills in recently developed areas such as Unified Protocol Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, Internet Supplemented Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, and Using Schema Therapy with Mindfulness Techniques. Written by a highly experienced executive coach, this book is full of practical and effective ways to become more capable and proficient. It is essential reading for any career, life, or executive coach who wishes to enhance their coaching capability through reflective practice, as well as for coaching training organizations, senior executive coaches offering sessions for other coaches, and academic institutions offering coaching qualifications.

Weight: 518g
Dimension: 155 x 234 x 20 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781032258027