Contemporary professional coaching turns to many disciplines and modes of human service when expanding on and enriching its perspectives and practices.
A Neurobiological perspective is taken when seeking to prepare a strong interdisciplinary perspective on professional coaching:
Neurobiology and Interdisciplinarity in Coaching
Personal/Interpersonal Coaching
The cutting edge of professional coaching is also to be found in the introduction of biopsychosocial perspectives regarding the creation of psychological protective processes (“character armor”). How does a coach address these challenging conditions. Following are links to a series of essays on this armorment:
The Tin Man: Oiling His Armor and Healing His Heart
Treating the Tin Man: Reich and Feldenkrais
Social psychological perspectives have also been introduced regarding coaching to and/or about the “other”:
Organizational Coaching
We find new perspectives in the application of an anthropological term (“culture”) to our engagement of professional coaching in an organizational setting?
The Organizational “House of Culture”
Organizational culture is manifest in many ways, including the establishment of behavioral patterns (and variants on these patterns) within the organization. Professional coaches can provide their organizational clients with valuable insights in this regard.
Organizational Culture, Patterns and Character
Concepts recently introduced by leading behavioral economists have pointed the way to new planning and change strategies that can be introduced by professional coaches working in organizational settings:
Soliciting the Pre-Mortem and Riding the Change Curve