An Introduction to Jungian Coaching - Paperback

by Avi Goren-Bar (Author)

Based on the psychology of Carl Jung, this illuminating new book invites coaches to extend their toolbox with deep, creative, and efficient professional methods that derive from a new perspective on coaching. In using the unconscious archetypes as a practical active psychological database for change, the Jungian coach can contribute significant modification in the coachee's expected behavior. Jungian Coaching can be applied in evaluating the coachee, the team, and the corporation.

This book translates Jungian psychology into simple comprehensive concepts. Each chapter translates theoretical concepts and rationale to thepractice of coaching. Illustrated with practical examples from the corporate world and life coaching, it offers Jungian Coaching tools and techniques. By integrating the Gestalt psychology principle of the "here and now" into Jungian concepts, the author develops a new coaching tool that enables an activation of archetypes as a useful and empowering coaching experience.

A valuable introductory resource for all those involved in coaching relationships, this book can empower coachees and serve as a compass for personal growth. It will be of great interest to practicing coaches, executives, human resource managers, consultants, and psychotherapists.

Author Biography

Avi Goren-Bar is a Clinical and Educational Psychologist, Certified Expressive Arts Therapist, Co-Active CTI certified coach, Jungian coach, and member of the European Association of Gestalt Therapy. He is a senior lecturer for the M.A. Art Therapy program at Beit Berl Academic College, Isreal. He is also the manager and senior lecturer in five Expressive Arts Therapy and Coaching programs he initiated in Athens, Zagreb, Ljubljana, Belgrade, and Istanbul, as well as the creator of the Jungian Coaching Method(c). Dr. Goren-Bar graduated from the Jerusalem Jungian Seminars program and fulfilled six years of Jungian analysis and supervision. His online International Coaching School and the four Jungian Coaching schools in Ljubljana, Istanbul, Athens, and Budapest are accredited as ACSTH by the International Coaching Federation (ICF).