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Self-development in coaching draws on stage models of development and makes them usable in practice. A coaching session from top management illustrates the new questions this approach reveals. Developmental limits, the self-development topics arising from them and how one can work on them concretely are explained. This is embedded into an introduction to Piaget’s genetic epistemological approach and two central stage models of self-development.
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Piaget”s approach therefore follows the idea of constructivism, that persons or systems construct their reality (cf. Kegan 1982, p. 28).
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Binder, T. (2022). Self-Development and Its Importance in Coaching. In: Greif, S., Möller, H., Scholl, W., Passmore, J., Müller, F. (eds) International Handbook of Evidence-Based Coaching. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-81938-5_68
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