Natalie and John: A Narrative Perspective on the Future Hopes and Fears Facing Organizational Coaching

W Bergquist International Journal of Coaching in Organizations 2009

Building on a hypothetical case study offered in a previous article in this issue of IJCO, Bergquist suggests ways in which the field of coaching—and the coaching relationship established between Natalie and John—might shift in coming years. The author traces out some of the implications associated with the world-wide challenge of hard economic times, the increasingly complexity of coaching problems being faced, the technological world of virtuality and simulation, and, in particular, the epistemological revolutions which clients and coaches like John and Natalie will be facing during the coming decade.