What Is Coaching?

Since coaching started its development as a separate discipline in the early 1980s (Brock, The sourcebook of coaching history, Self-published, 2012; Passmore & Theeboom, Coaching psychology: Meta-theoretical perspectives and applications in multicultural contexts. Springer, 2016) definitions of coaching have been part of the debate within coaching practice and research. Almost every book, article and blog has offered a viewpoint as to ‘what is coaching?’