Hany Shoukry

• PhD
• Researcher at Oxford Brookes University

Demands to re-embed coaching into its larger social context of operation have generated calls to better document the political aspects of this human learning and development process. To address this critical social turn, this empirical article explores the reframing by practitioners of their understanding of coaching practice, using a Freirean lens...

Ethics in coaching is often approached through an individual psychological angle, attributing ethical issues to misconducts, which should be solved through appropriate behavioral solutions. We argue that this micro angle reduces the complexity of ethics in coaching, and especially depoliticizes the debate. The risk is to undermine the role of macro...

We explore action research as a strategy for developing evidence-based practice in the coaching context. Action Research offers the unique opportunity to generate both experiential and empirical knowledge, while improving and developing the practice, and possibly driving change in the researcher, participants and the context of the research. It fre...

Complex Situations in Coaching is a collection of 20 typical yet underdiscussed issues in coaching, ranging from value conflicts, multiple agendas, power dynamics, and emotion management, to the role of money, etc. Organized into ten chapters, they are positioned into the literature and commented on by world-class coaches, coaching researchers, edu...

In this conceptual article, we argue the importance to the coaching profession of a critical understanding of coaching as a social process in order to promote coaching as an enabler for change and facilitate its use in other cultures and challenging contexts. We start with a critical analysis of the origin of coaching, arguing that neoliberal value...

While coaching is establishing itself as an effective human development approach, there is limited understanding of the dynamics of coaching in the context of oppression. This paper summarises a study that examined the use of coaching as an emancipatory approach, and explored how oppression affects coachees, coaches and the coaching process. Buildi...