Coaching in the Polycrisis - Adapting Coaching for a More Hopeful Future

This book provides provocative and realistic ideas for transforming the coaching industry away from coaching for business as usual.

The interlocking crises we are in – such as the crossing of safe ecological boundaries, unrestrained Artificial Intelligence and unbridled economic extraction – can be opportunities to make a meaningful difference to the executive coaching industry.

Here you’ll find techniques to coach for systems-awareness, for emotions, and for polycrisis-aware actions that coaching clients can take. And the book is also a template for structural change at industry level: our ethics, competencies, qualifications and training courses.

What should coaching be for in these times? It is a young industry, in the history of humanity. Now is its moment of maturity and coming-of-age, as it meets the current state of the world.

I learned something new on every page, and John Gray kept me hooked throughout. His future case study paints such a vivid, hopeful picture of how things could be different that I closed the book feeling I’d grown in my own capacity to care for this precious planet — and, as a coach, clearer about the part I have to play. It couldn’t have come at a better time.

Clare Norman, Master Coach, mentor coach and coach supervisor,

and author of Reclaiming Love in Coaching