The Coaching Kool-Aid
Ready to be challenged? Feeling playful? If you’re a coach who’s serious about engaging in reflective practice, or you’re simply interested in taking a look behind the curtains of the coaching profession, come with us as we bite into the juicy fruit of this intriguing, complex, and totally unregulated industry. In each episode we’ll look at a different concept used within coaching, and playfully unpack both its problems and its utility.
The Coaching Kool-Aid
Search for the Authentic Self
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Renee Lockwood and Melanie Weeks
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Season 1
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Episode 2
The Internet is full of coaches advertising their services to help you find your ‘authentic self’ (maybe it’s just under the couch), or to ‘unlock its power’ (sounds risky, why was it imprisoned in the first place?). In this episode, we look at where this notion of an ‘authentic self’ came from, and why it actually fits more within a religious framework than a scientific one. As coaches, we also look at how we’d approach this Cartesian dilemma in our own practice.