TY  - JOUR
TI  - The co-created boundary: negotiating the limits of coaching
AU  - Maxwell, A.
AB  - This paper explores how business coaches experience the boundary between coaching and therapy in their practice. Using a phenomenological approach, four therapeutically trained and four non-therapeutically trained coaches were asked to describe instances when they felt they were working near the ‘boundary’. Findings suggest that issues of a psychological nature are brought into coaching, and that the ‘boundary’ is largely a function of the willingness and ability of both coach and client to work with personal/psychological material. Differences in working practice were noted between and within the two groups. Findings also give impetus for more rigorous coach training as well as suggesting a potentially fruitful tool for use in coach supervision. 
JO  - International Journal of Evidence Based Coaching and Mentoring
PY  - 2009
KW  - Coaching
KW  - Ethics
KW  - Therapy
KW  - Training
KW  - Counselling
KW  - boundary
KW  - supervision.
VL  - Special Issue 3
LA  - English
ER  -