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This is an unusual and path breaking book. Simon Western explores coaching in its many variations and simultaneously critiques the different discourses that comprise it.’

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‘Finally an in-depth inquiry into coaching and why it is so popular. Coaching and Mentoring contains a profound analysis of the cultural background of coaching.’

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Read Simon’s Blog: Leadership and Coaching Polemic

Drawing leadership and coaching lessons from his polemic views on social events.

www.leadershipandcoachingpolemic.com

Publications

For more publications: https://birkbeck.academia.edu/SimonWestern

Coaching

The Wounded Self and Celebrated Self: Coaching bridges the gap

Free download introduction to Coaching and Mentoring a critical text (Western S 2012, Sage)

http://www.uk.sagepub.com/upm-data/48929_Introduction,_Western.pdf

Soul Guide Coaching

The soul guide discourse sets out one of four discourses that underpin coaching practice today. Free download Chapter 6 of Coaching and Mentoring a critical text (Western S 2012, Sage)

http://www.uk.sagepub.com/upm-data/61128_Western_Coaching_and_Mentoring_chapter_6.pdf

Leadership

The Four Discourses of Leadership

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Autonomist leadership in leaderless movements: anarchists leading the way

Autonomist Leadership is the name given to the non-hierarchical, informal and distributed forms of leadership found in emancipatory social movements.

This is an academic article published in Ephemera Journal

http://www.ephemerajournal.org/contribution/autonomist-leadership-leaderless-movements-anarchists-leading-way

The Bridge Between the Two Selves

Western S. (2016), The bridge between the two selves, Coaching Today issue April 2016 pgs 12-16, published by British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP)

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The Leadership Game

This action-learning event is for 40-100 people and creates an unforgettable learning experience that delivers superb results.

Uniquely it delivers in three key areas:

Personal leadership learning
Team dynamic and different models of team leadership
Organizational dynamics and culture: how teams, functions and regions work collaboratively together across organizational boundaries.

Building on 50 years of the Tavistock Group Relations tradition of experiential learning, this event brings this learning methodology into the era of networked organizations. Participants experience the limitations of controlling leadership and begin to learn from experience, what distributed leadership means in practice.

Who we have worked with

Global OD team HSBC Bank

MBA Lancaster University Management School UK

Hertfordshire MBA & Tavistock Institute

IMPM International Masters in Practicing Management www.impm.org

Marconi

Via Rail Canada, McGill University

Further Education CEOs and Principals UK: Art of Leadership Programme

For 40-100 people. To see brochure click here