Letters from readers
fine line
The issue of the boundary between coaching and therapy was a theme in Coaching at Work (vol 5, issue 4). Your Poor Practice Survey showed 61 per cent of respondents thought practising therapy while coaching was unethical, and 49 per cent poor practice, while Jenny Rogers urged us to stop looking for boundaries.
We had some thought-provoking conversations on these issues when writing a paper for the International Gestalt Journal last year. While the paper had Gestalt as its focus, the broader issues debated are applicable to any approach. We offer discussions and...