Arts-Based Coaching: Using Creative Tools to Promote Better Self-Expression

by Andrea Giráldez Hayes (Editor), Earnes Max (editor)

This book, written in an accessible way by leading experts in the field, offers a comprehensive exploration of arts integration in coaching through the lenses of positive and health psychology.

Drawing together international experts and interdisciplinary perspectives, including health and neuroscience, the book explores the intersection of positive psychology and the arts, offering insights and strategies for using art to promote personal growth. The chapters in this book weave theory into practice, condense research and theoretical concepts into straightforward frameworks, and offer easily understandable ideas and examples. It provides a theoretical rationale for various art forms, including poetry, music, visual arts, dance, cinema, and photography. Each chapter includes case studies to present practical ways in which arts can enhance coaching conversations.

Arts-Based Coaching is a practical guide that will interest coaching psychologists, coaches, dual practitioners offering therapeutic coaching, leaders, educators, and other professionals using coaching in their professional practice, as well as course leaders and students in coaching and coaching psychology.

204 pages, Kindle Edition

Published December 23, 2024

Reviews

[Gayle · Rating 4 out of 5]

I was dismayed to realize this book is a collection of essays by coaches using various approaches, not all of them art based unless you have an unusually expensive definition of art. On a positive note, I found some inspiration and concrete tools to use in coaching and appreciated the discussion questions. The authors also provide excellent discussion of the ethics of using arts in coaching. However, in my opinion, the book would be vastly improved with editing and deleting (e.g. the historical introductions to poetry and film).