This research contributes to current understandings of how the process of
learning unfurls temporally during coaching conversations. This experience has
been obtained through first-hand lived experience, in particular, my active
participation as a coachee in a series of one-to-one coaching conversations
with two professional coaches. To assist in developing and enriching these
understandings further I have crafted a research design with a two-stage
process. And a hybrid methodology drawn from Interpretative
Phenomenological Analysis and Dialogical Methods. This approach is beneficial
in enabling the complexity of self-other relationships that unfold within coaching
conversations to be fully articulated. I have chosen to adopt autoethnography as
a research method in stage one of this research, and interviews in stage two,
respectively. Autoethnography enables a complex exploration of first-hand lived
experience, providing a forum in which reflexive dialogues between self and
other can emerge. Thus, allowing multiple perspectives to be heard. In stage
two I have interviewed 6 professional coaches, facilitating an additional dialogue
to unfold between self and others, enriching this research. Critically, within this
research, the self is described as malleable and non-identical with itself, where
on encountering others in external and inner dialogues it experiences
challenges and struggles with the unknown and unfamiliar. Significantly,
through this experience the self is transformed. Finally, this process can be
understood as artistic, since this research describes an aesthetic metaphor
informed by Bakhtin and Gell, in which coach and coachee - described as the
recipient are actively engaged in emotionally crafting and shaping the other.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:BRADFORD/oai:bradscholars.brad.ac.uk:10454/19076 |
| Date | January 2020 |
| Creators | Dennison, Melissa |
| Contributors | Sullivan, Paul W., Stokes, Paul |
| Publisher | University of Bradford, Faculty of Management, Law and Social Science |
| Source Sets | Bradford Scholars |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Thesis, doctoral, PhD |
| Rights | <a rel="license" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/"><img alt="Creative Commons License" style="border-width:0" src="http://i.creativecommons.org/l/by-nc-nd/3.0/88x31.png" /></a><br />The University of Bradford theses are licenced under a <a rel="license" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/">Creative Commons Licence</a>. |
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