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Systems Theories as a Basis for Coaching

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Systems theories, which are (usually implicitly) referred to in the discourses on coaching, range from classical concepts in family therapy and other disciplines to narrative descriptions of systems and two groups of more modern systems theories: one group uses the autopoiesis concept, which is, however, interpreted very differently in biological-philosophical and sociological terms. The other group focuses on interdisciplinary systems research. This theory already had predecessors in Gestalt and field theory and sees its common point of reference in the concept of synergetics.

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  1. Osnabrück University, Osnabrück, Germany

    Jürgen Kriz

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  1. Institute of Psychology, Universität Osnabrück, Osnabrück, Lower Saxony, Germany

    Siegfried Greif

  2. Institut für Psychologie, University of Kassel, Kassel, Hessen, Germany

    Heidi Möller

  3. Lebenswissenschaftliche Fakultät, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Berlin, Berlin, Germany

    Wolfgang Scholl

  4. Henley Business School, Henley Centre for Coaching, University of Reading, Reading, UK

    Jonathan Passmore

  5. Executive Coach, Erding/Munich, Germany

    Felix Müller

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Kriz, J. (2022). Systems Theories as a Basis for Coaching. In: Greif, S., Möller, H., Scholl, W., Passmore, J., Müller, F. (eds) International Handbook of Evidence-Based Coaching. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-81938-5_73

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