Constructing Worlds Conference Copenhagen 21 August 2009 Coaching Psychology - Narrative Reinhard Stelter 1 Dias 1 Dias 1 Constructing Worlds – on language, learning and leadership Copenhagen, 20-23 Aug. 2009 Workshop Coaching Psychology in a Narrative Perspective Reinhard Stelter, PhD Professor of Sport and Coaching Psychology Coaching Psychology Unit Department of Exercise and Sport Sciences University of Copenhagen Email: rstelter@ifi.ku.dk www.ifi.ku.dk/coaching Dias 2 Dias 2 Short presentation PhD in psychology. Member of the Danish Psychological Assoc. Accredited member of the International Society of Coaching Psychology Gestalt therapeutic education and further education in systemic, relational and narrative approaches to therapy, counseling, coaching and leadership Research group leader and head of the Coaching Psychology Unit at the Department of Exercise and Sport Sciences, Univ. of Copenhagen Honorary Vice President of Society for Coaching Psychology and board member of EMCC - DK Member of the Research Advisory Panel – The Coaching Institute, Harvard University Member of the Advisory Board, lecturer and coach at Copenhagen Coaching Center Reinhard Stelter Reinhard Stelter Dias 3 Dias 3 Coaching – a definition  Coaching is defined as the participation of a coach in the learning process of a coachee/group of coachees. ____________________________________  This process creates the foundation for new, alternative, or revised narratives of the focus person’s personal and professional life. Reinhard Stelter Dias 4 Dias 4 Coaching – a reflective space  COACHING shall be presented as a specific form of conversational process between a coach and a focus person – the coachee – with the aim to give the focus person a developmental space and thereby the possibility for reflection and renewed understanding: 1. about his/her own experiences in relation to a specific context; and 2. about specific relationships, co-ordinated actions with others and about the processes of negotiation in a specific social situation. Reinhard Stelter