Coaching Practiced

46 Positive Psychology Coaching – a model for coaching practice

Jonathan Passmore and Lindsay G. Oades

ABSTRACT

This is the first in a series of papers to look at Positive Psychology Coaching (PPC) as an approach suitable for use with coaching clients. This paper presents a brief overview of PPC for readers who are less familiar with the approach and highlights other sources for a fuller account of PPC. The paper sets the scene for a subsequent series of papers. Each of these subsequent techniques papers presents a short description of a technique grounded in PPC and which are suitable for use with coachees.

Keywords

Coaching; coaching psychology; positive psychology coaching model and applied positive psychology.

Original publication details: Passmore, J., & Oades, L. G. (2014, December). Positive psychology coaching – A model for coaching practice. The Coaching Psychologist, 10(2), 68–70. Reproduced with permission of The British Psychological Society.

THE BACKGROUND – POSITIVE PSYCHOLOGY COACHING

Positive psychology has been referred to as the science at the heart of coaching (Kaufmann et al., 2010). While other approaches in active use by coaching psychologists, including motivational interviewing, (referred to in a set of earlier papers in this journal) have a strong evidence base, Positive Psychology Coaching (PPC) is becoming an increasingly popular coaching methods used by coaching psychologists, and other alike, under a range of titles including PPC, evidence-based ...