Talk:Coaching/Archives/2021

History of coaching and evidence

Can we add some sections on the history of coaching (e.g. probably from human potential movement in the 1950s USA; self-actualisation), current industry and trends, key influencers, and theory (or lack of it) and evidence ... ref: Senior, Jeanette. "Life coaching: Origins, direction and potential risk–why the contribution of psychologists is needed more than ever." The Coaching Psychologist 3, no. 1 (2007): 19-22. That article is a bit dated now. But as it stands this page does not go into any theory or evidence of efficacy. It just goes directly into applications. Notgain (talk) 10:01, 7 July 2019 (UTC)

Its a bit of a hotch potch of ideas but it seem that coaching emerged from the human development and self-actualization (Maslow)... The following are possible topics for this page:

• Historical influencers: Napoleon Hill, Dale Carnegi...
• Humanistic psychology, Self-actualization
• Humanistic psychologist Person-centered therapy and unconditional positive regard
• Personal development
• Rapport and empathy, especially non-verbal rapport
• I've seen coaching described as a sort of applied Positive psychology
• Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi flow
• Lev Vygotsky and Zone of proximal development
• Albert Bandura, especially observational learning
• Fritz Perls and Gestalt theory (e.g. playing chairs)
• Solution focussed brief therapy...
• Influence of Milton Erickson, and the group at the Mental Research Institute at Palo Alto – Gregory Bateson, Donald deAvila Jackson, Paul Watzlawick, John Weakland, Virginia Satir, Jay Haley, Richard Fisch,...
• The current coaching industry, e.g. Anthony Robbins and others. Would be interesting to know the size of the industry by region.
• Certification, associations, efficacy,...
• What are the minimum qualifications required in different regions?
• How is coaching delivered? Is it more effective face-to-face or is online just as good?

Notgain (talk) 10:41, 7 July 2019 (UTC)

Notgain, It would be interesting to add some of these insofar as there is credible evidence to link them. There is increasingly research and academic study in coaching, and that may be a start for adding to this article. FULBERT (talk) 10:51, 7 July 2019 (UTC)

Propose a section on 'History of coaching'. I propose some major themes:

• early motivation / American self-help authors in the early 1900s (Napoleon Hill's Think and Grow Rich, Dale Carnegie's How to Win Friends and influence People, ...),
• human potential movement,
• T-groups/EST in the 1970s
• mass marketing (reaching estimated 100 million Americans) of coaching and human performance systems in Anthony Robbins infomericals in the 1980s, e.g. GRANBERRY, MICHAEL (October 1, 1991). "A True Believer : Tony Robbins Has Attracted Converts--and Critics--to His Positive-Thinking Empire". Los Angeles Times. ISSN 0458-3035. Retrieved July 2, 2017.
• Timothy Gallwey's The Inner Game of X (Tennis) and sports coaching metaphors in executive coaching
• GROW, a blend of AA and sports coaching.

This outline is largely consistent with 'The Hidden History Of Coaching By Wildflower, Leni' [1] which is already cited in the article. Notgain (talk) 03:44, 8 July 2019 (UTC)

Not primarily about sports

@Ashad Rector, Desideria24, Gs3654, and Jroberts119: I see you are associated with a Wikipedia:Wiki Ed assignment for a sport psychology course. I hope you know that this article is not primarily about sports; it is about coaching in general, as opposed to sports coaching specifically. If you are already aware of that, then please carry on. I just mention it because we often see people editing this article who don't seem to realize that it is not about sports coaching. Biogeographist (talk) 00:55, 6 October 2021 (UTC)