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Co-Active Coaching: Changing Business, Transforming Lives

H Kimsey-House, K Kimsey-House, P Sandahl, L Whitworth Nicholas Brealey Publishing 2011

Findings from a global survey of certified professional co-active coaches.

C Newnham-Kanas, J Irwin, D Morrow International Journal of Evidence Based Coaching & Mento... 2011

Currently, research supporting the validity of coaching is rising in both executive and life coaching arenas. Research has revealed that co-active life coaching (CALC), a particular style of coaching, is compatible with health-behaviour theory. However, very little information is known about co-active coaches themselves. The purpose...

Can life coaching improve health outcomes? A systematic review of intervention studies.

J Ammentorp, L Uhrenfeldt, F Angel, M Ehrensvärd, E Carlsen,... BMC Health Services Research 2013

In recent years, coaching has received special attention as a method to improve healthy lifestyle behaviours. The fact that coaching has found its way into healthcare and may provide new ways of engaging the patients and making them accountable for their health, justifies the need for an overview of the evidence regarding coaching interve...

Social learning theory

A Bandura, D McClelland General Learning Press 1977

The impact of Co-active Life Coaching on female university students with obesity

M van Zandvoort, JD Irwin, D Morrow International Journal of Evidence Based Coaching and Mentori... 2009

The purpose of this qualitative study was to explore the impact of Co-active life coaching on obese female university students. Five obese (BMI ≥ 30kg/m2 ), female university students received an average of nine weekly, 35-minute, one-on-one sessions with a certified coach. Semistructured, in-depth interviews before and after particip...

Assessing the impact of Motivational-Interviewing via Co-active Life Coaching on engagement in physical activity

AM Goddard, D Morrow International Journal of Evidence Based Coaching and Mentori... 2015

The purpose of this 12-week pre-post design study was to assess the impact of Motivational Interviewing via Co-Active Life Coaching (MI-via-CALC) on engagement in physical activity for 25 women between the ages of 30 and 55 years. Data on task self-efficacy, barrier-specific self-efficacy, self-esteem, physical activity (PA), body mass...

Bridging The Coaching/Therapy Divide: What Co-Active Coaches Can Learn From ACT (Acceptance And Commitment Therapy)

J Humphreys Philosophy of Coaching: An International Journal 2016

This paper situates the coaching/therapy divide within the context of new regulations in Ontario, Canada, that limit the use of the term ‘psychotherapy,’ and the practice of psychotherapy. Taking Co-Active Coaching and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) as representative examples of coaching and therapy respectively, I examine each i...

From Aha to Ta-dah: insights during life coaching and the link to behaviour change

T Robinson, D Morrow, M Miller Coaching: An International Journal of Theory, Research and P... 2017

Insight represents a cognitive leap in understanding that is distinct from other types of problem-solving. How moments of insight subsequently link to behaviour has not been investigated in real world settings such as coaching. By extending findings from neuroscience into the field of life coaching, our study examined the link between mom...

A scoping review of mental health coaching

L Bishop The Coaching Psychologist 2018

Coaching psychology has been used successfully in various health and wellbeing contexts, but there are conflicting views as to whether coaching is an appropriate form of mental health support. Since mental health is a relatively new area for the application of coaching, a scoping review has been conducted to delineate the current state of...