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Coaching frameworks

Evidence-based methodologies, standards, and protocols used by expert coaches worldwide.

Frameworks

Frameworks

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12 Principles of Transformative Coaching

A 12-principle framework for transformative coaching from Nick Bolton at Animas Centre for Coaching. Philosophy-first, identity-oriented practice.

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ACT — Values & Willingness

The coaching application of Steven Hayes's ACT — values clarification and willingness. Helps clients choose what they'll stand for and carry the discomfort of moving toward it. Coaching scope, not therapy.

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Adult Development

The constructive-developmental theory of vertical growth in adulthood. Kegan's orders of mind and Cook-Greuter's nine stages anchor most contemporary vertical leadership coaching.

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COR.E Dynamics

iPEC's family of performance coaching methodologies. Applies the Energy Leadership framework to leadership, wellbeing, and transitions.

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Causal Layered Analysis (CLA)

Inayatullah's four-layer method — litany, systemic causes, worldview, myth/metaphor — for X-raying any issue or vision to its depth structure. Works at individual and societal scale.

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Co-Active Model

A relational, transformative coaching framework from CTI. Built on four Cornerstones, five Contexts, and three Principles — and on the founding claim that the client is already whole.

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Conscious Leadership

A leadership framework built on Above/Below the Line, the Four Ways of Leading, and the 15 Commitments. Co-created by Dethmer, Chapman, and Klemp; taught by The Conscious Leadership Group.

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Core Ideology + Envisioned Future (BHAG)

Collins & Porras's two-part vision framework: a fixed Core Ideology (values + purpose) paired with an Envisioned Future built on a 10–30 year BHAG. Preserve the core, stimulate progress.

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GROW Model

The world's most widely used coaching framework. Four stages — Goal, Reality, Options, Will — that turn open questions into self-directed action.

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Ikigai

The Japanese concept of a life worth living - and an honest account of how its famous four-circle Venn diagram (a 2014 Western creation) differs from the authentic, gentler original.

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Immunity to Change

A developmental diagnostic process that surfaces the hidden competing commitments preventing change. Developed by Kegan and Lahey at Harvard.

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Integral Theory / AQAL

Ken Wilber's AQAL meta-framework — All Quadrants, All Levels, All Lines, All States, All Types. Nests individual interior, behaviour, culture, and systems in one map. The skeleton of vision-at-scale.

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Intentional Change Theory

Boyatzis's research-based model of sustainable change, anchored in the Ideal Self and a positive vision of who you want to become. The empirical backbone of vision as a coaching skill.

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Internal Family Systems for Coaching

A non-pathologising parts-based model created by Richard Schwartz. Increasingly used in coaching for identity, transition, leadership, and relational work.

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Kolb's Experiential Learning

David Kolb's four-stage learning cycle — experience, reflection, conceptualization, experimentation. The engine of how coaching turns action into learning, and reflective practice.

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Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs

Maslow's hierarchy of needs: deficiency needs versus growth needs, and self-actualization as the drive to become all one can be. A humanistic root of coaching's belief in an innate growth drive - with an honest account of the contested pyramid.

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Multi-Perspective Brain

A nine-part model of personality. Treats the mind as a council of biological voices to be heard, integrated, and led.

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Organization and Relationship Systems Coaching (ORSC)

A systems coaching framework that treats the relationship — not the individual — as the unit of intervention. Co-created by Fridjhon and Fuller; taught by CRR Global.

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Person-Centered Approach

Carl Rogers's person-centered approach: the three core conditions (congruence, unconditional positive regard, empathy) and the belief that the client is the expert. The root of modern coaching's non-directive stance.

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SCARF Model

Brain-based model by David Rock. Five social domains — Status, Certainty, Autonomy, Relatedness, Fairness — drive social threat or reward.

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Self-Determination Theory

Deci & Ryan's evidence-based theory of motivation: humans need autonomy, competence, and relatedness. The empirical backbone for why some visions sustain energy for years and others collapse.

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Self-Efficacy (Bandura)

Albert Bandura's research on self-efficacy — the belief you can do the thing — and its four sources. The empirical foundation under confidence, goal pursuit, and behaviour change.

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Shared Vision

Senge's discipline of building genuinely collective vision — commitment over compliance — powered by Fritz's creative tension between vision and current reality. The team-and-organisation rung of vision.

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Spiral Dynamics

Graves, Beck & Cowan's model of how human value systems develop in people and societies. Explains why people hold radically different visions — and why your stage bounds what you can conceive.

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Stages of Change (Transtheoretical Model)

Prochaska and DiClemente's model of how people move through readiness to change — from precontemplation to maintenance. The map beneath Motivational Interviewing.

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The 12 Week Year

Moran & Lennington's execution system that redefines the year as 12 weeks - periodization that turns a long-range vision into a focused goal, weekly plan, and measured accountability rhythm.

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The Hero's Journey (Campbell's Monomyth)

Joseph Campbell's monomyth — the universal story arc of departure, initiation, and return. The narrative map beneath transformation, transition, and identity coaching.

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The Inner Game

W. Timothy Gallwey's Inner Game: Performance = potential minus interference, the two selves (Self 1 and Self 2), and non-judgmental awareness. The origin of modern coaching and the direct ancestor of the GROW model.

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The Transformative Self

Jack Bauer's integrative model of flourishing - happiness, love, wisdom, and growth - built on a self-identity that steers life toward growth. The eudaimonic backbone beneath much vision work.

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Three Horizons

Bill Sharpe's transformational futures framework — H1 present system, H3 emerging future, H2 transition zone — for holding present and transformed future at once. Scales from team to society.

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WOOP / Mental Contrasting

Oettingen's evidence-based goal-pursuit strategy — Wish, Outcome, Obstacle, Plan — that turns a wish into action by contrasting the desired future against the obstacle in the way.

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Wheel of Life

The canonical coaching life-audit: a circle of 8-10 life areas each rated for satisfaction, turning a vague sense of imbalance into a clear picture. Created by Paul J. Meyer in the 1960s.

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Methodologies

Methodologies

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Andragogy (Knowles's Adult Learning Theory)

Malcolm Knowles's theory of how adults learn — self-directed, experience-rich, problem-centred, internally motivated. The foundation of coaching stance, program design, and coach education.

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Appreciative Inquiry (Cooperrider)

Cooperrider and Srivastva's strengths-based approach to change — the 4-D Cycle of Discovery, Dream, Design, and Destiny. Inquire into what works, not what's broken.

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Cognitive Behavioural Coaching

An evidence-based coaching methodology that adapts cognitive behavioural therapy for non-clinical use. Founded by Stephen Palmer, Michael Neenan, and Windy Dryden in London.

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Designing Your Life

Burnett & Evans's Stanford method for applying design thinking to your life: five mindsets, three Odyssey Plan futures, and prototyping your way forward instead of waiting for one right answer.

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Flow (Csikszentmihalyi)

Csikszentmihalyi's research on flow — the state of complete absorption in an activity. The challenge-skill balance and nine dimensions behind engagement and peak performance.

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Gestalt (Perls)

Fritz Perls's here-and-now, awareness-based approach — the root of somatic, presence, and experiential coaching. Contact, the cycle of experience, unfinished business, and the empty chair.

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Lifebook Methodology

A 12-category life-design methodology built on the principle that clarity of vision in every domain of life is the prerequisite for living deliberately. Founded by Jon and Missy Butcher.

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Logotherapy (Frankl's Meaning-Centered Approach)

Viktor Frankl's meaning-centered approach — the root of all purpose and life-design coaching. The will to meaning, the freedom to choose one's attitude, and meaning found even in suffering.

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Motivational Interviewing

A clinical conversation method by Miller and Rollnick for evoking change talk. Used widely in coaching for health and behaviour change.

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Nonviolent Communication (Rosenberg)

Marshall Rosenberg's compassionate-communication model — Observations, Feelings, Needs, Requests. The root of conflict-resolution, relationship, and communication coaching.

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Ontological Coaching

A philosophical-existential coaching methodology rooted in language, emotion, and the body. Founded by Flores, Olalla, and Echeverria; taught principally through Newfield Network.

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Positive Psychology

The scientific study of human flourishing. Foundational research base for strengths-based, wellbeing, and happiness coaching.

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Solution-Focused Coaching

A future-oriented, evidence-based coaching methodology that builds solutions rather than analysing problems. Pioneered by de Shazer and Berg; adapted for coaching by Berg and Szabó.

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Stakeholder-Centered Coaching

An executive coaching methodology developed by Marshall Goldsmith. Behaviour change measured through structured stakeholder feedback over 12–18 months; signature pay-for-results contracting.

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Theory U / Presencing

Otto Scharmer's MIT methodology for letting a new future emerge: a U-shaped journey through co-sensing to presencing — letting go of the old, letting come the new — and back into action.

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Transactional Analysis (Berne)

Eric Berne's model of Parent, Adult, and Child ego states — the root of relationship, communication, and leadership coaching. Transactions, strokes, games, and life scripts.

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Standards

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Protocols

Protocols

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