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43 Narrative coaching – Part 4: Redesigning the GROW model as the 4th generation coaching for people and the planet

Ho Law

Abstract

This paper reflects and reviews the formulation of the GROW model in relation to narrative coaching in response to the climate change crisis, the socio-cultural and technological paradigms. It proposes a new coaching model by redesigning the GROW process and integrating it with the narrative coaching process. It argues that the new model called ROGWin can be regarded as the fourth generation coaching (4GC) in terms of the evolution of coaching psychology as a professional discipline. Its implications for future research and practice, including technological advances such as artificial intelligence (AI), and coaching’s role in the wider world and its environment, are discussed.

Keywords

AI climate change; fourth generation coaching; 4GC; coaching psychology; GROW; environment.

Original publication details: Law, H. (2021, June). Narrative coaching – Part 4: Redesigning the GROW model as the 4th generation coaching for people and the planet. The Coaching Psychologist, 17(1), 59–69. Reproduced with permission of The British Psychological Society.

INTRODUCTION

The story so far… In Part 3, I explained how narrative coaching could be applied for groups, teams, organisations and wider communities by embedding it in the action research process. I further argued that narrative coaching is more powerful, effective and efficient than conventional psychological ...