Part 1: The Coaching Context; Introduction: Existential Coaching Skills: A Different Way of Working, Thinking and Writing; Chapter 1: What is Coaching?; Chapter 2: What is Existential Coaching?; Part 2: The Practice; Chapter 3: Skills for Existential Coaching; Chapter 4: What Would a Piece of Existential Coaching Look Like From Start to Finish?; Appendix 1: Core Coaching Competencies; Appendix 2: ICF Core Competencies; References; Index
Monica Hanaway is an executive and leadership coach, business consultant, mediator, psychotherapist and trainer. She is the author of The Existential Leader and An Existential Approach to Leadership Challenges (both Routledge). She runs training programmes on using the existential approach in coaching, mediation and leadership. She is passionate in her mission to bring existential thought beyond the academic arena into the business and wider world, believing, it has much to offer in these uncertain times.
‘Monica Hanaway provides a boutique style of coaching in several
different environments from a private space in a clinic, to the
wider corporate world, up to the retirement and post-retirement
stage. Her attitude to the ‘what now?’ or ‘what next?’ offers a
fresh and versatile way of doing coaching, which is
non-prescriptive, not overly reliant on technique, and where the
subject precedes the object. Having practiced existential coaching
for many years, Hanaway describes how the
phenomenological-ontological space of exploration, transforms life
as to become truly worth living. Even when enough money is earned,
goals are reached, career changes are considered, CHOICE becomes
the essence for change. The model is shown to work well in both the
professional and personal spheres.’ - Claire Francica, Existential
Counselling Psychologist and Psychotherapist, Malta‘Monica has a
special ability to draw out disparate views, provide constructive
challenge and provide innovative perspectives that allow
individuals to reach consensus. In the context of our fast-paced
business, Monica’s coaching practices have proved invaluable,
helping to create close-knit and highly performing teams. Having
had the pleasure of watching her expertly coax out the underlying
issues in the driving behaviour of passionate and knowledgeable
people, I am a full convert to her approach to both team and
self-improvement. I would have no reservations in recommending this
book to anyone wishing to use coaching to develop their leadership
skills.’ - John Davison; CEO FCG Guernsey‘Existential Coaching
skills are very practical and yet immensely inspired instruments
for coaches to use in addressing people's difficulties in living.
Monica Hanaway has been fine tuning these skills for many years and
you will find this summary to the point and indispensable to your
coaching practice.’ - Prof. Emmy van Deurzen PhD, MPsych, MPhil,
FBPsS, CPsychol, FBACP, UKCPF, HCPCreg, Principal NSPC ‘Coaching
provides businesses, from large corporates to small, privately
owned firms, with a distinctive edge. External coaching offers a
unique viewpoint that simply cannot be readily achieved from an
in-house position. Working creatively with people and facilitating
positive, often necessary change, highlighting skills and
co-creating a vision that fits into the values of the people and
the business alike – this is priceless, no matter what one’s role
in an organisation. Monica writes from the distinct perspective of
a successful business leader who, recognising the need for external
feedback of a multi-disciplinary approach, emerged as a highly
skilled and effective coach. Drawing on her experience as a coach,
mediator, psychotherapist, supervisor, lecturer and following
decades of teaching and mentoring, this book provides the framework
for the application and key tools and techniques for coaching from
an Existential perspective. Monica passes this knowledge on in the
most effective way in her new book. As an attendee of her
workshops, I have witnessed her expert ability to tease out the
significant, introspective questions that gently challenge one to
reflect upon core values or behaviours that may subtly conflict
with the goals of the business. The impact upon our Practice in
just one day was invaluable, and I have to attribute this to the
exclusivity of the Existential approach to coaching. Our staff will
read this and continue to engage in the reflective practices that
will enable them to develop as effective mentors to their
colleagues. Their efficacy in utilising these skills today is
primarily due to the external support they have received. Thus, I
would highly recommend this book to students, coaches, managers and
anyone wishing to progress effectively and ethically in business.’
- Marni Eisenberg; MA, MBACP, UKCP, MPED, IRegNutrClinical Director
& Therapist Queens Road Practice, Guernsey‘Coaching is of great
value to all leaders. Leaders are responsible for their companies
and must exhibit many qualities, such as honesty, trustworthiness
and ethics. Leaders must display the company’s values and be
responsible for, and inspire, others’ success in the company. This
is quite a challenge, especially for those new to positions of
responsibility. Whether leaders are born or made is an eternal
question, but what is certain is that coaching helps leaders to
unlock their potential and develop their own authentic style.
External coaches can offer neutral impartial advice and insights to
develop this leadership potential. Coaching outcomes assist
ambitions to becoming an effective leader and are personal to
individuals, but include: Focusing of values driven leadership and
decision making Improving self-confidence and human effectiveness
Learning to trust and delegate to your team Developing healthy and
sustainable work life balance and relationships Having effective
leaders gives the company a competitive advantage in the industry
and a strong sense of purpose, which impacts the bottom line and
value of the company. Monica draws on over 20 years’ experience as
a senior leader, strategist and policy maker, having had a team of
over 500 working to her and managing a budget of over £15million.
Her unique, quietly spoken, flexible yet firm, existential approach
goes deeply to the root of issues, drawing on her experience of
mediating, dispute resolution and coaching. This existential
approach provides a unique focus on human life, that is so relevant
to coaching. The steps are laid out within the pages of the
‘Handbook of Existential Coaching Practice’ in easy to follow and
implement chapters, which is useful to new leaders and experienced
leaders alike.’ -Ben Virgo; Director HS, London, UK‘Everyone can
benefit through the use of a coach. In business, such a
relationship is becoming increasingly common for those in
managerial and leadership positions. An external coach provides a
safe and neutral space to discuss any concerns and to look
creatively and critically at potential developments. Monica Hanaway
moves away from some of the more directive coaching styles offering
a deeper approach based on Existential philosophy. This approach is
laid out clearly in this book which is useful to coaches, students
and coaching clients’- Monica Tyler; CEO Vauxhall City Farm,
London, UK‘Monica has worked with a number of senior people in our
geographically and culturally diverse organisation, as a coach and
a trainer. Her unique existential approach to coaching works well
with such diversity and is open to working with different world
views. This handbook sets out simply and clearly the existential
approach she uses focusing on the philosophical and psychological
factors in play in the client’s dilemma.’- Mirjam Buyteweg; IFRS
The International Financial Reporting Standards Foundation, London,
UK‘Monica Hanaway has been playing an instrumental role in the
development and growth of the existential approach to coaching. She
designed the world’s first University-accredited MA programme and
published the definitive skills handbook on the topic. I recommend
the Handbook of Existential Coaching Practice to all coaches
interested in enriching their practice and deepening their
understanding of what every clients, regardless of their presenting
issue, brings into the coaching space: their human condition.
Monica does a magnificent job illuminating the challenges and
possibilities of working existentially with clients and manages to
translate complex existential ideas into tangible ways of using
them to work with clients across a range of sectors and
circumstances. A must-read for every practitioner looking to take
their coaching to the next level.’ - Yannick Jacob; Existential
Coach (MA), Positive Psychologist (MSc), Coach Trainer & Supervisor
(FMR Programme Leader MSc Coaching Psychology), Mediator (conflict
resolution) and author of An Introduction to Existential Coaching
(Routledge)‘Monica Hanaway highlights the key principles of
Existential perspectives and uses them to create an overarching
framework that coaches can apply strategically to the complexity of
their clients’ dilemmas. We are shown how to develop a trusting
relationship in which clients can examine the meanings and values
underpinning their day to day experiences. Two coaching models,
MOVER and CREATE, form guides for people to see themselves and
their context with greater clarity, to identify clashes with
personal values and then to commit to routes for meaningful change.
Expressed in this way, the task appears straightforward, but the
process and any resultant commitments require courage. How can we
provide the right conditions for that courageous change? Hanaway
provides informative case studies to illustrate how the existential
coach can foster a relationship of ‘challenging depth’ where the
client can face the inevitable dilemmas, anxieties and
uncertainties of their existence and do so in a manner that acts as
a beacon for living authentically. This book will curl at the edges
through repeated reading.’ - Dr Mark Burgess; Research Lead and
Teaching Fellow (Social Psychology), Oxford Brookes University,
Oxford, UK‘In uncertain times people need the opportunity to engage
with the challenges being provoked - personal, interpersonal or
organisational. Monica addressed the issues directly raised through
leadership roles in her previous two books on Leadership. In this
book she extends the field of work offering a handbook to all
coaches seeking to use an existential approach in exploring
practical questions within the uncertainties of living. The book
combines the theoretical and the practical.’ - Professor Ernesto
Spinelli; author of Practising Existential Therapy: The Relational
World ‘Careers move very fast! It is important to enjoy what you do
and how you do it! Part of the enjoyment is about your growth and
development. I believe that growth through coaching can be an
effective and delightful experience. To have an experienced
specialist who wishes to focus on your strengths and challenges is
highly valuable. At points in my career I have greatly benefited
from a coach. The IFRS Foundation recognises the importance of
coaching and integrates its practices with our people. In this book
Monica gives insight into the existential model she works with.’ -
Lee White; Executive Director IFRS (The International Financial
Reporting Standards Foundation)‘This handbook offers a definitive
guide to the application of existential philosophy to coaching
practice. An existential approach to coaching can offer individuals
a new understanding of life and the predicaments and challenges
that we all face. This book offers both theoretical and practical
elements, enabling an understanding of existential philosophy as
well as its application to coaching skills. This book is essential
reading for all practitioners but particularly coaching students.’
– Dr Claire Arnold-Baker; counselling psychologist; existential
therapist; perinatal specialist; supervisor and trainer, DCPsych
Programme Leader, joint programme with Middlesex University & New
School of Psychotherapy and Counselling, UK‘Hanaway has produced a
handbook that provides a re-orientation of coaching practice from
an emphasis on what the coach does towards a deeper understanding
and exploration of the client’s world and vicissitudes of life.
Through the presentation of case material she illustrates how to
develop a client-coach relationship that enables the client to
examine and face the existential dilemmas of organisational and
social life. She explains and expounds existential philosophy and
convincingly integrates it into a novel style of coaching practice.
Management consultants and coaches will find this approach, and
this handbook, essential when helping clients reconcile ambiguities
in their lives and develop authentic change.’ - Prof John Nuttall;
Assistant Dean and Head of School of Psychotherapy and Psychology,
Regent’s University London, UK; Certified Management Consultant ‘In
these times when it seems we are surrounded by insurmountable
problems and bombarded by noise in the system, it can often feel
like change is impossible, be it at a personal, relational,
organisational or community level. An existential approach invites
us to take a deeper look at the thinking we have learned to rely
upon to solve these issues, in order that we might challenge and
expand our possibilities for making changes that matter. Monica
Hanaway provides a crucial toolkit that goes well beyond
traditional coaching methods, which are now increasingly redundant
in times of extreme uncertainty. Monica herself has used the wisdom
in her book in practical ways both with individuals and across a
wide range of diverse organisations for many years. Her clients
will all tell you that her approach is effective and long lasting,
because it catalyses the right conversations and doesn’t shy away
from asking the questions that will get to the heart of the matter.
In short, the existential coaching approach wakes us up and holds
us to account for living a more authentic life. A thoroughly
recommended read for all coaching practitioners and leaders looking
to support people to find meaning in their work and life.’ - Jill
McMillan; CEO Jill McMillan Associates - Leadershaping, Cambridge,
UK
‘Monica Hanaway provides a boutique style of coaching in several
different environments from a private space in a clinic, to the
wider corporate world, up to the retirement and post-retirement
stage. Her attitude to the ‘what now?’ or ‘what next?’ offers a
fresh and versatile way of doing coaching, which is
non-prescriptive, not overly reliant on technique, and where the
subject precedes the object. Having practiced existential coaching
for many years, Hanaway describes how the
phenomenological-ontological space of exploration, transforms life
as to become truly worth living. Even when enough money is earned,
goals are reached, career changes are considered, CHOICE becomes
the essence for change. The model is shown to work well in both the
professional and personal spheres.’ - Claire Francica, Existential
Counselling Psychologist and Psychotherapist, Malta‘Monica has a
special ability to draw out disparate views, provide constructive
challenge and provide innovative perspectives that allow
individuals to reach consensus. In the context of our fast-paced
business, Monica’s coaching practices have proved invaluable,
helping to create close-knit and highly performing teams. Having
had the pleasure of watching her expertly coax out the underlying
issues in the driving behaviour of passionate and knowledgeable
people, I am a full convert to her approach to both team and
self-improvement. I would have no reservations in recommending this
book to anyone wishing to use coaching to develop their leadership
skills.’ - John Davison; CEO FCG Guernsey‘Existential Coaching
skills are very practical and yet immensely inspired instruments
for coaches to use in addressing people's difficulties in living.
Monica Hanaway has been fine tuning these skills for many years and
you will find this summary to the point and indispensable to your
coaching practice.’ - Prof. Emmy van Deurzen PhD, MPsych, MPhil,
FBPsS, CPsychol, FBACP, UKCPF, HCPCreg, Principal NSPC ‘Coaching
provides businesses, from large corporates to small, privately
owned firms, with a distinctive edge. External coaching offers a
unique viewpoint that simply cannot be readily achieved from an
in-house position. Working creatively with people and facilitating
positive, often necessary change, highlighting skills and
co-creating a vision that fits into the values of the people and
the business alike – this is priceless, no matter what one’s role
in an organisation. Monica writes from the distinct perspective of
a successful business leader who, recognising the need for external
feedback of a multi-disciplinary approach, emerged as a highly
skilled and effective coach. Drawing on her experience as a coach,
mediator, psychotherapist, supervisor, lecturer and following
decades of teaching and mentoring, this book provides the framework
for the application and key tools and techniques for coaching from
an Existential perspective. Monica passes this knowledge on in the
most effective way in her new book. As an attendee of her
workshops, I have witnessed her expert ability to tease out the
significant, introspective questions that gently challenge one to
reflect upon core values or behaviours that may subtly conflict
with the goals of the business. The impact upon our Practice in
just one day was invaluable, and I have to attribute this to the
exclusivity of the Existential approach to coaching. Our staff will
read this and continue to engage in the reflective practices that
will enable them to develop as effective mentors to their
colleagues. Their efficacy in utilising these skills today is
primarily due to the external support they have received. Thus, I
would highly recommend this book to students, coaches, managers and
anyone wishing to progress effectively and ethically in business.’
- Marni Eisenberg; MA, MBACP, UKCP, MPED, IRegNutrClinical Director
& Therapist Queens Road Practice, Guernsey‘Coaching is of great
value to all leaders. Leaders are responsible for their companies
and must exhibit many qualities, such as honesty, trustworthiness
and ethics. Leaders must display the company’s values and be
responsible for, and inspire, others’ success in the company. This
is quite a challenge, especially for those new to positions of
responsibility. Whether leaders are born or made is an eternal
question, but what is certain is that coaching helps leaders to
unlock their potential and develop their own authentic style.
External coaches can offer neutral impartial advice and insights to
develop this leadership potential. Coaching outcomes assist
ambitions to becoming an effective leader and are personal to
individuals, but include: Focusing of values driven leadership and
decision making Improving self-confidence and human effectiveness
Learning to trust and delegate to your team Developing healthy and
sustainable work life balance and relationships Having effective
leaders gives the company a competitive advantage in the industry
and a strong sense of purpose, which impacts the bottom line and
value of the company. Monica draws on over 20 years’ experience as
a senior leader, strategist and policy maker, having had a team of
over 500 working to her and managing a budget of over £15million.
Her unique, quietly spoken, flexible yet firm, existential approach
goes deeply to the root of issues, drawing on her experience of
mediating, dispute resolution and coaching. This existential
approach provides a unique focus on human life, that is so relevant
to coaching. The steps are laid out within the pages of the
‘Handbook of Existential Coaching Practice’ in easy to follow and
implement chapters, which is useful to new leaders and experienced
leaders alike.’ -Ben Virgo; Director HS, London, UK‘Everyone can
benefit through the use of a coach. In business, such a
relationship is becoming increasingly common for those in
managerial and leadership positions. An external coach provides a
safe and neutral space to discuss any concerns and to look
creatively and critically at potential developments. Monica Hanaway
moves away from some of the more directive coaching styles offering
a deeper approach based on Existential philosophy. This approach is
laid out clearly in this book which is useful to coaches, students
and coaching clients’- Monica Tyler; CEO Vauxhall City Farm,
London, UK‘Monica has worked with a number of senior people in our
geographically and culturally diverse organisation, as a coach and
a trainer. Her unique existential approach to coaching works well
with such diversity and is open to working with different world
views. This handbook sets out simply and clearly the existential
approach she uses focusing on the philosophical and psychological
factors in play in the client’s dilemma.’- Mirjam Buyteweg; IFRS
The International Financial Reporting Standards Foundation, London,
UK‘Monica Hanaway has been playing an instrumental role in the
development and growth of the existential approach to coaching. She
designed the world’s first University-accredited MA programme and
published the definitive skills handbook on the topic. I recommend
the Handbook of Existential Coaching Practice to all coaches
interested in enriching their practice and deepening their
understanding of what every clients, regardless of their presenting
issue, brings into the coaching space: their human condition.
Monica does a magnificent job illuminating the challenges and
possibilities of working existentially with clients and manages to
translate complex existential ideas into tangible ways of using
them to work with clients across a range of sectors and
circumstances. A must-read for every practitioner looking to take
their coaching to the next level.’ - Yannick Jacob; Existential
Coach (MA), Positive Psychologist (MSc), Coach Trainer & Supervisor
(FMR Programme Leader MSc Coaching Psychology), Mediator (conflict
resolution) and author of An Introduction to Existential Coaching
(Routledge)‘Monica Hanaway highlights the key principles of
Existential perspectives and uses them to create an overarching
framework that coaches can apply strategically to the complexity of
their clients’ dilemmas. We are shown how to develop a trusting
relationship in which clients can examine the meanings and values
underpinning their day to day experiences. Two coaching models,
MOVER and CREATE, form guides for people to see themselves and
their context with greater clarity, to identify clashes with
personal values and then to commit to routes for meaningful change.
Expressed in this way, the task appears straightforward, but the
process and any resultant commitments require courage. How can we
provide the right conditions for that courageous change? Hanaway
provides informative case studies to illustrate how the existential
coach can foster a relationship of ‘challenging depth’ where the
client can face the inevitable dilemmas, anxieties and
uncertainties of their existence and do so in a manner that acts as
a beacon for living authentically. This book will curl at the edges
through repeated reading.’ - Dr Mark Burgess; Research Lead and
Teaching Fellow (Social Psychology), Oxford Brookes University,
Oxford, UK‘In uncertain times people need the opportunity to engage
with the challenges being provoked - personal, interpersonal or
organisational. Monica addressed the issues directly raised through
leadership roles in her previous two books on Leadership. In this
book she extends the field of work offering a handbook to all
coaches seeking to use an existential approach in exploring
practical questions within the uncertainties of living. The book
combines the theoretical and the practical.’ - Professor Ernesto
Spinelli; author of Practising Existential Therapy: The Relational
World ‘Careers move very fast! It is important to enjoy what you do
and how you do it! Part of the enjoyment is about your growth and
development. I believe that growth through coaching can be an
effective and delightful experience. To have an experienced
specialist who wishes to focus on your strengths and challenges is
highly valuable. At points in my career I have greatly benefited
from a coach. The IFRS Foundation recognises the importance of
coaching and integrates its practices with our people. In this book
Monica gives insight into the existential model she works with.’ -
Lee White; Executive Director IFRS (The International Financial
Reporting Standards Foundation)‘This handbook offers a definitive
guide to the application of existential philosophy to coaching
practice. An existential approach to coaching can offer individuals
a new understanding of life and the predicaments and challenges
that we all face. This book offers both theoretical and practical
elements, enabling an understanding of existential philosophy as
well as its application to coaching skills. This book is essential
reading for all practitioners but particularly coaching students.’
– Dr Claire Arnold-Baker; counselling psychologist; existential
therapist; perinatal specialist; supervisor and trainer, DCPsych
Programme Leader, joint programme with Middlesex University & New
School of Psychotherapy and Counselling, UK‘Hanaway has produced a
handbook that provides a re-orientation of coaching practice from
an emphasis on what the coach does towards a deeper understanding
and exploration of the client’s world and vicissitudes of life.
Through the presentation of case material she illustrates how to
develop a client-coach relationship that enables the client to
examine and face the existential dilemmas of organisational and
social life. She explains and expounds existential philosophy and
convincingly integrates it into a novel style of coaching practice.
Management consultants and coaches will find this approach, and
this handbook, essential when helping clients reconcile ambiguities
in their lives and develop authentic change.’ - Prof John Nuttall;
Assistant Dean and Head of School of Psychotherapy and Psychology,
Regent’s University London, UK; Certified Management Consultant ‘In
these times when it seems we are surrounded by insurmountable
problems and bombarded by noise in the system, it can often feel
like change is impossible, be it at a personal, relational,
organisational or community level. An existential approach invites
us to take a deeper look at the thinking we have learned to rely
upon to solve these issues, in order that we might challenge and
expand our possibilities for making changes that matter. Monica
Hanaway provides a crucial toolkit that goes well beyond
traditional coaching methods, which are now increasingly redundant
in times of extreme uncertainty. Monica herself has used the wisdom
in her book in practical ways both with individuals and across a
wide range of diverse organisations for many years. Her clients
will all tell you that her approach is effective and long lasting,
because it catalyses the right conversations and doesn’t shy away
from asking the questions that will get to the heart of the matter.
In short, the existential coaching approach wakes us up and holds
us to account for living a more authentic life. A thoroughly
recommended read for all coaching practitioners and leaders looking
to support people to find meaning in their work and life.’ - Jill
McMillan; CEO Jill McMillan Associates - Leadershaping, Cambridge,
UK
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