Full Description
Creative Career Coaching: Theory Into Practice is a practical and inspiring guide to supporting individuals in navigating their career journeys with creativity, confidence, and purpose. Blending theory with hands-on strategies, it offers coaches and practitioners fresh ways to help clients shape meaningful, fulfilling work lives.This updated second edition responds to today's global challenges and the growing importance of mental wellbeing in career development. It expands on contemporary career theories and coaching methodologies, showing how imagination, metaphor, and reflective exercises can unlock new perspectives for clients, empowering them to move forward with confidence and authenticity. Prized by practitioners for its practical approach, the book links theory to practice through rich case studies and examples of how to use creative questions and techniques in real coaching conversations. It is the only book to cover the Creative Career Coaching model, now widely adopted across the UK. This book will inspire career coaches, careers advisers, counsellors, educators, and HR professionals seeking to enrich their practice with creative approaches. It is equally valuable for students of career development and coaching, offering theoretical grounding and practical tools to inspire transformative conversations with clients facing change, uncertainty, and complex challenges.
Contents
Part 1: Setting the Scene 1. The Bigger Picture: Global Trends 2. A Brief History of Career Development Theory 3. The Brilliant Brain: Insights from Neuropsychology Part 2: Managing Interactions 4. Micro Skills: The Building Blocks 5. Process Models 6. Laying the Foundations 7. Frameworks for Exploring the Client's Story 8. Goals and Actions 9. Using Digital Technology for Coaching 10. Trauma Informed Practice 11. Group Guidance and Coaching Part 3: Design Your Session to Meet Client Needs 12. Motivation and Readiness 13. Decision-Making 14. Self-Awareness 15. Opportunity Awareness 16. Transition 17. Resilience Part 4: Practitioner Issues 18. The Resilience of the Coach
