CHAPTER 8
ADVANCED COACHING: COACHING AND DIVERSITY
Sheldon Daniel* and Anne Scoular
In Chapter 7, we discussed individual difference – the glorious way in which we humans vary, in all our myriad ways. This should be no different when we get to race, gender, ethnicity and all the other aspects of humanity that we think of when discussing ‘diversity’.
But it is different. For two reasons. First, these are groups of people who one way or another have suffered discrimination or adversity, so the playing field has not been level for them: compared with those who have not experienced overt oppression, they bring another dimension into coaching. And second, sensitive people (like coaches), get nervous around these topics. We are aware of the hazards ...
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