Life Coaching

The Earned Life: Lose Regret, Choose Fulfillment

“We are living an earned life when the choices, risks, and effort we make in each moment align with an overarching purpose in our lives, regardless of the eventual outcome.”...

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Coaching the self: Identity working and the self-employed professional

This project explores the micro-processes of identity construction within the emerging profession of coaching, whose members are predominately self-employed....

Eutopiagraphies: Narratives of Preferred-Future Selves with Implicatgions for Developmental Coaching 2010

This research provides evidence that coaches, with training in adult development theory, can extend the value of a common practice - talking with clients about their preferred selves - to uncover clues regarding clients' constructive-developmental stages (Keagan 1892, 1994). Practicioners attracted to Kegan's theory may ...

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CoachX: Julie Carrier on Mindset Science: Faster, Lasting Change

Julie Carrier reveals how to leverage the proven power of mindset science to achieve lasting change in less time.

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2016 Conference Keynote: Success Built to Last

Mark Thompson presents on "Success Built to Last, Creating a Life that Matters" at the Annual 2016 Coaching in Leadership and Healthcare Conference.

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What is life coaching? An integrative review of the evidence-based literature

Life coaching as an industry fully emerged in the 1990s and has exploded to become a $2 billion global industry with nearly 50,000 certified life coaches (ICF, 2012)....

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Is coaching an effective adjustment for dyslexic adults?

Ourprimarypurposeinthispaperisto(a)outlinetheheretoforelimitedinvestigation and understanding of dyslexia in adults and (b) assess the impact of coaching as reasonable adjustment for this significant proportion of the working population, who receive little attention in the coaching, work performance and indeed disability literature....

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Positive Psychology in Practice

A thorough and up-to-date guide to putting positive psychology into practice From the Foreword: "This volume is the cutting edge of positive psychology and the emblem of its future." -Martin E. P....

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Mindset: The New Psychology of Success

After decades of research, world-renowned Stanford University psychologist Carol S. Dweck, Ph.D., discovered a simple but groundbreaking idea: the power of mindset....

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2014 Video Interview with Yael Farber, theater director and playwright

Yael Farber discusses theater as communal event and ritual where actors tell stories on the human condition and its truth based on her keynote presentation at the 2014 Coaching in Leadership and Healthcare Conference in an interview with Joan Ryan, Founding Fellow.

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