Coaching Across Cultures

P Rosinski The International Journal of Coaching in Organizations 2003

If coaching is largely about shifting and expanding people’s perspectives in a way that they can translate into daily actions, then working with individual belief systems and assumptions is vital. Beyond these individual creeds, coaching has to explore the embedded collective paradigms, which feel to humans like the water that fish blissfully and obliviously swim in. This is why we are discussing coaching in a cultural context in this issue, choosing a fresh European coaching voice as our guide.