Thank you for this...
We do have a sort of Hipocratic Oath in the coaching field, and, I, and many psychologists have expressed EXTREME concern as to the use of these 'technologies' in coaching. Note, there is little or no research regarding their use in this context, benefits and risks.
To urge a global membership of coaches, of varying levels of skill,to employ these technologies with clients is MALPRACTICE. The ICF has done this.
Additionally, it would seem that many coach training entities accredited by the ICF use forms of 'Large Group Awareness Training'...and, across culture.
Assume you, and most people on this forum hail from western cultural contexts.
Folks from Asian cultures have vastly different personal/ego boundaries, and responses to group experiences and AUTHORITARIAN leadership, IMHE.
For instance, a British friend participated in coach training, I will not name the firm at this time, which was conducted in Singapore.
First day included an est/Landmark-styled 'group awareness exercise'...most participants were Asian. Friend reported that two Asian women, stood up, and respectively reported incidents of childhood abuse, including incest. One walked to the back of the room and, promptly had a seizure.
I can report that OD/and T-group (corporate) practice was banned by the Japanese government in the 80's after multiple corporate participants committed suicide.
Remember what I said about the 'Hippocratic Oath'..
We do have a sort of Hipocratic Oath in the coaching field, and, I, and many psychologists have expressed EXTREME concern as to the use of these 'technologies' in coaching. Note, there is little or no research regarding their use in this context, benefits and risks.
To urge a global membership of coaches, of varying levels of skill,to employ these technologies with clients is MALPRACTICE. The ICF has done this.
Additionally, it would seem that many coach training entities accredited by the ICF use forms of 'Large Group Awareness Training'...and, across culture.
Assume you, and most people on this forum hail from western cultural contexts.
Folks from Asian cultures have vastly different personal/ego boundaries, and responses to group experiences and AUTHORITARIAN leadership, IMHE.
For instance, a British friend participated in coach training, I will not name the firm at this time, which was conducted in Singapore.
First day included an est/Landmark-styled 'group awareness exercise'...most participants were Asian. Friend reported that two Asian women, stood up, and respectively reported incidents of childhood abuse, including incest. One walked to the back of the room and, promptly had a seizure.
I can report that OD/and T-group (corporate) practice was banned by the Japanese government in the 80's after multiple corporate participants committed suicide.
Remember what I said about the 'Hippocratic Oath'..