The coaching relationship

Empirical research, cases and conversations

This book is about encounters, meetings between people, it is about the relationship in coaching. The layout of the book also contains meetings, and encounters between art and science: Between 42 original line drawings by the Royal Academy artist Carl Erik Reimuth and 42 empirical studies by the author and numerous contributors.

Quoting from the preface by business psychologist PhD, Mads Lindholm: “The book presents current research into the relationship’s significance for coaching. Ole Michael Spaten takes us into the researcher’s cave and presents a large number of scientific articles, empirical research, and their contributions to how we can understand and comprehend the coaching relationship and its complexity”. (…) “The book provides a commendable overview of the last 20 years of research in the field of coaching relationship. I believe the book will inspire all of us who deal with coaching to become even more curious about the relationship and its significance”.

About the author
Ole Michael Spaten is senior-researcher at the Department of Communication and Psychology at Aalborg University. Among a number of subjects, he writes about and teaches psychological practice and intervention.

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This book is about encounters, meetings between people, it is about the relationship in coaching. The layout of the book also contains meetings, and encounters between art and science: Between 42 original line drawings by the Royal Academy artist Carl Erik Reimuth and 42 empirical studies by the author and numerous contributors.

Quoting from the preface by business psychologist PhD, Mads Lindholm: “The book presents current research into the relationship’s significance for coaching. Ole Michael Spaten takes us into the researcher’s cave and presents a large number of scientific articles, empirical research, and their contributions to how we can understand and comprehend the coaching relationship and its complexity”. (…) “The book provides a commendable overview of the last 20 years of research in the field of coaching relationship. I believe the book will inspire all of us who deal with coaching to become even more curious about the relationship and its significance”.

About the author
Ole Michael Spaten is senior-researcher at the Department of Communication and Psychology at Aalborg University. Among a number of subjects, he writes about and teaches psychological practice and intervention.