On this Website, We Introduce Our Readers
To The Perspectives and Practices of Professional Coaching

The Coaching Quad:
Facing a Complex, Unpredictable and Turbulent World

Sharing Perspectives and Practices to engage
Unique 21st Century Professional Coaching Challenges
Professional Coaching Resources

The Coach Quad: Critical Thinking in a Shifting World

A Digital Space that Provides A Forum for Open Exchange of Ideas Information about Quad Members

Spirituality and Coaching: An Interweaving

Professional Coaching Resources

Library of Professional Coaching

New Perspectives at the Cutting Edge to
Guide Professional Coaching
Professional Coaching Resources

The Coaching Quad

Sharing, Appreciating and Engaging Diverse
Coaching Perspectives.
Professional Coaching Resources
The Coach Quad Coach-Related Education, Training
Publications and Support
Professional Coaching Resources
Library of Professional Psychology Providing Diverse Perspectives and Practices
At the Cutting Edge of Knowledge
Click to obtain information about LPC and Other Quad Members
Professional Coaching: A Global Enterprise Find out more about TASE and Other Quad Members The Coach Quad: A Marketplace
Of Ideas
Professional Coaching Resources
The SOAR Community Network LInk with SOAR Network and Other Quad Members The Coach Quad:
A Way Through the Coaching World
Click to find resources helping this journey through the maze
Ash Point Publishing:
Disseminating Cutting-Edge Knowledge
Link to this and other source of coaching knowledge
Click to find out about our collaborating members The Coach Quad:
Promoting Growth and Collaboration
New Layer The Adler Graduate Institution:
ICF Certified Coach Training
Link to information about Adler and Other Quad Members
The Quad: A Window To and From
The World of Professional Coaching
Click to List of and Links to All Quad Members

FOR THOSE WHO WISH TO USE PROESSIONAL COACHING SERVICES

The Coach Quad provides a wide range of professional coaching related resources that enable a prospective coaching client to identify the kind of coaching services that are most appropriate given the challenges they are now facing.

The Kind of Challenges Being Faced

An inventory is provided that enables one to assess the relative strength of six different (though related) challenges: volatility, uncertainty, complexity, ambiguity, turbulence and contradiction (VUCA-Plus)

The VUCA-Plus Environmental Inventory

The Kind of Available Professional Coaching Services

There are a wide variety of professional services that a potential client might engage to successfully meet their challenges. A document is provided that identifies, categorizes and briefly describes the major professional coaching strategies.

The Varieties of Professional Coaching

Ways to Coach Oneself Rather Than (Or in Addition to) Working with a Professional Coach

Many coach-based strategies and tools can be used to better inform one’s perspectives or improve one’s performance.

Self-Coaching Strategies and Tools

Managing Life Transitions

Being an Entrepreneur: Multiple Types and Needs

THE COACHING QUAD: A SPECIAL SPACE

The Coach Quad pulls people together and is filled with coach-relate resources both for those providing professional coaching services and those seeking these services. The Coach Quad offers an inviting space and is a setting for collaboration.

Multiple and unique perspectives and practices are represented on this website.

Encounters with the Other

The Organizational “House of Culture”

The Tin Man: Oiling His Armor and Healing His Heart

Treating the Tin Man: Reich and Feldenkrais

The Coach Quad is rich with insights that relates directly to the many different components of the field and profession of coaching.

Soliciting the Pre-Mortem and Riding the Change Curve

Philosophical Foundations of Coaching: Free or Pre-Determined?

FOR THOSE WHO PROVIDE PROFESSIONAL COACHING SERVICES

The Coach Quad provides a wide range of professional coaching related resources that enable those providing professional coaching services to identify the type of challenges their current or prospective clients confront and the kind of professional coaching services they might provide to meet these challenges.

The Kind of Challenges that Coaching Clients Bring to Their Sessions

An inventory is provided that enables one to assess the relative strength of six different (though related) challenges: volatility, uncertainty, complexity, ambiguity, turbulence and contradiction (VUCA-Plus)

The VUCA-Plus Environmental Inventory

The Kind of Coaching Services that Can be Offered to Meet a Client’s Challenges

There are a wide variety of professional services that a potential client might engage to successfully meet their challenges. A document is provided that identifies, categorizes and briefly describes the major professional coaching strategies.

The Varieties of Professional Coaching

Quad Publications

Perspectives and Practices of Professional Coaching #1: Problem Solving and Decision-Making

Perspectives and Practices of Professional Coaching #2: Reframing

Coach-Related Publications 

The Library of Professional Coaching

The Library of Professional Psychology

choice Magazine

Ash Point Publishing

PROFESSIONAL COACHING: STATUS AND DIRECTIONS

Professional Coaching Status

The two major domains in which professional coaches operate are: (1) personal/life coaching and (2) organizational/executive coaching. Following are links to two recent essays related to the current status of these two domains.

Status of Personal/Life Coaching

Status of Organizational/Executive Coaching

EMERGING DOMAINS OF PROFESSIONAL COACHING

Professional Coaching in the Domain of Health Care

We offer several introductory essays that offer a brief overview of the many ways in this the domains of professional coaching and health care can effectively intersect.

The Many Dimensions of Health-Care Based Coaching

The Four Tiers of Health-Care Based Coaching

Professional Coaching in the Domain of Spirituality

We offer a series of essays regarding the important, but often elusive or controversial, intersect between professional coaching and spirituality.

Here is link to the introductory essay where links to the other essays can be found:

Spirituality and Coaching

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Self-Coaching Strategies and Tools

While professional coaching can often be invaluable when addressing a challenging issue, some strategies can be adopted and tools can be used that enable one to engage in more effective communication, manage conflict more successfully, solve problems, and make decisions. Empowerment and Entrepreneurship Empowerment and entrepreneurship go hand in hand when considering ways to improve […]
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