What Coaching Might Learn from Narrative Therapy

Coaching lecture series "Coaching - Research and Practice"

Arthur W. Frank

Arthur Frank is professor emeritus of sociology at the University of Calgary, where he has taught since 1975. He is a trained medical sociologist. He currently is professor at VID Specialized University, Bergen, Norway, and core faculty at the Center for Narrative Practice in Boston. He lives in Calgary.

Narrative therapy, beginning with the work of Michael White and David Epston, has proposed a radical shift not only in therapeutic technique, but in imagining the ethics and ideals of therapeutic work. The lecture reviews this shift, relating it to my own work on storytelling, selves, and ethical lives.

Venue
Store Auditorium, Institut for Idræt og Ernæring, Nørre Allé 53, 2200 København N

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Further information
Reinhard Stelter, Coaching Psychology Unit, University of Copenhagen

The lecture is part of a series of lectures titled "Coaching - research and
practice", which is sponsored by the EMCC. The lecture series aims to build a bridge between research and praxis in coaching and at the same time embed coaching practices in the research discourse. The intention is to hear from researchers, who explore coaching from a business, health or sports related angle. The Coaching Psychology Unit at the University of Copenhagen was established in order to launch and coordinate interdisciplinary research, education and dissemination in coaching.