Professional Coaching as an Interdisciplinary Art and Science

The fourth essay concerns ethics and was written by Patrick Williams, a quite prolific writer on coaching practices and a very successful personal coach and coach-trainer. Pat writes about five sources of ethical standards and ways to engage and integrate these standards.

Ethics in a Historical View and a Framework for Ethical Decision Making

We conclude this issue, as we often do, with the presentation of a useful coaching tool that is based in both the art and science of professional coaching. This tool is called “Levels of Inquiry” and it plays a central role in the interdisciplinary process called reflective coaching. Two authors featured previously in this issue—Agnes Mura and one of us [WB}—originally offered this tool in their coaching resource book called coachbook.

The Process of Reflective Coaching: Levels of Inquiry

We invite you to celebrate with us in this publication of our 20th issue. Our journal would not be of much value if no one chose to read it. So, we thank you for your patronage and hope you come to even more fully appreciate of and engage in the interdisciplinary and globalized art and science of professional coaching.

William Bergquist
Co-Editor

Bill Carrier
Co-Editor