Coaching and Healing: Transcending the Illness Narrative - Softcover

Joel Kreisberg; Reggie Marra; John Stoddart

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1495187713 ISBN 13: 9781495187711

Publisher: Integral Publishers, 2016

Synopsis

Co-authored by Joel Kreisberg, Alex Douds, Amy Phillips, Jill Lang Ward, John Stoddart, Julie Flaherty, Karin Hempel, Leslie Williams, Lois MacNaughton, Reggie Marra.

Accessible to all and deeply rewarding, Coaching and Healing: Transcending the Illness Narrative is an inspirational guide for every coach and health care practitioner. Weaving together the authors' own healing narratives, diverse case studies and skillful step-by-step methodology, this book reveals the powerful benefits of shifting one's story from the conventional medical model of disease and cure, to the powerful honesty of narrative healing. With compassion and clarity, the authors offer coaches, clients and patients, not just a health resource, but a fundamental, essential and deepening way to be within the healing arts and sciences. 

About this title

About the Author

Joel Kreisberg, DC, ACC, is Executive Director of the Teleosis Institute.  He maintains a private practice Integrative Homeopathic Medicine in Berkeley, CA.

Alex Douds possesses more than 35 years of corporate experience in leadership roles.  As an Integral Master Coach, he has a passion for coaching individuals in finding their own direction and self-expression and opening up to new possibilities.

Julie Flaherty JD, is an attorney and Integral Master Coach. Julie is a leader of WePractice, a relational,group-oriented practice, which builds upon and transcends personal practice.

Karin Hempel has an MA in Holistic Health Education with a specialization in nutrition from John F.Kennedy University and is a certified Integral Master Coach whose target clients are women undergoing transition as a result of life-altering events.  

Jill Lang Ward (1952-2016)experience as a cancer warrior since 2007 deepened her insights, expanding her capacity to support others through life-altering circumstances.
   
Lois MacNaughton, BA, IntegralMaster Coach, ACC, is a life coach whose work combines Integral principles, and Eastern philosophy. She is core faculty at Teleosis Institute.

Reggie Marra, MA, ACC engages coaching, poetry writing, humor, and any means necessary in order to help alleviate his own and others' unnecessary suffering. Reggie serves as Creative Director at the Teleosis Institute.

Amy Phillips is a business consultant and Integral Master Coach based in Vancouver, British Columbia.   Her company, Aim True Enterprises Inc., was founded in 2002.

John Stoddart, health coach, educator, and advocate, and certified Integral Master Coach is based in Ottawa and Vancouver, Canada. He is dedicated to the application and growth of health coaching within medicine and the healing arts.

Leslie Williams is a highly experienced leadership development professional who increases organizations'effectiveness by strengthening their leaders.   

From the Back Cover

"This coaching model evokes a patient's intrinsic wisdom through participation in narrative and self-exploration."

Larry Dossey, MD
Author of Reinventing Medicine

From the Inside Flap

Whether you are in the midst of your own healing journey orproviding care to someone who is, Coachingand Healing will give you fresh and powerful ways to understand healing ata deep level. The intimate personal narratives of ten incredibly generous andembodied Integral Master Coaches™ and the examples of their client work willhit you in the gut and leave you wanting to apply every word to your own life.May Coaching and Healing be ofservice as we each take steps, one after the other, on our own personal pathsof wellness.

Laura Divine and Joanne Hunt,
Co-Founders, Integral Coaching Canada, Inc.

Edition details

• Publisher: Integral Publishers
• Publication date: 2016
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1495187713
• ISBN 13: 9781495187711
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 182