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Evidence Based Coaching Handbook
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Evidence Based Coaching Handbook

by Dianne R. Stober, Anthony M. Grant
April 2006
Beginner to intermediate content levelBeginner to intermediate
416 pages
13h 12m
English
Wiley
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CHAPTER 10
An Adventure-Based Framework for Coaching
TRAVIS KEMP
 
 
ADVENTURE PROGRAMMING IS a specialist field of practice within experiential education that shares close affiliations and informing bodies of knowledge with pedagogy, andragogy, counseling, psychotherapy, and psychology. A still embryonic subdiscipline within the broader field of adventure programming known as adventure therapy is increasingly being utilized within a range of clinical and developmental settings and with a diverse range of client groups. Like coaching, adventure programming continues to accumulate an empirical, efficacy-based body of knowledge while practitioners continue the process of defining it as a distinctly unique developmental intervention method. To date, the theoretical and case-based evidence exploring the outcomes of adventure programming appear promising, and the potential applications to a coaching context continue to emerge, driven by the many similarities, potentials, and opportunities for methodological cross-fertilization that exist between these two practice frameworks.
In this chapter, I explore the historical and contextual development of adventure programming and therapy, provide an overview of the informing bodies of knowledge central to their practice, and detail its subsequent application to a coaching context. Through the exploration of potential individual and group-based applications of the adventure method to the two selected coaching case studies, I explore how this ...
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