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3 Is it Time to REGROW the GROW Model? Issues related to teaching coaching session structures

Anthony M. Grant

Abstract

Although models of how to structure coaching sessions are widely taught in coach training programmes there has been little or no debate in the literature about the use of session structures, the teaching of them, or the relative advantages or disadvantage of different specific session structure frameworks, and there have been few links drawn between the theoretical underpinnings of coaching and session structures. This paper explores these issues, giving examples of session structures and presents some frameworks that may help guide the categorisation and teaching of these structures. A variation of the well-known GROW model is presented; the RE-GROW model which explicitly links coaching session structure to self-regulation theory.

Keywords

GROW; RE-GROW; coaching psychology; teaching coaching; session structure. .

Original publication details: Grant, A. M. (2011, December). Is it time to REGROW the GROW model? Issues related to teaching coaching session structures. The Coaching Psychologist, 7(2), 118–126. Reproduced with permission of The British Psychological Society.

Virtually all programmes that teach coaching and coaching psychology include material about how to structure coaching sessions. But to date there has been little or no debate in the literature about the use of session structures, the teaching of them, or the relative advantages or disadvantage ...