Coaching in Higher Education How to Support Student and Educator Flourishing at University

Foundations and Theories

1. The Promise of Coaching in Higher Education

Christian van Nieuwerburgh and Brittany Rehal

2. To Tell or Not to Tell: Exploring the Facilitative Approach to Coaching in Higher Education

Bob Thomson

3. Facilitating Transformative Learning in Higher Education: Coaching as a Heutagogical Journey

Haesun Moon

4. Coaching to Complete: Supporting University Student Resilience and Success through Coaching

Kathleen Shea Smith, Shana Hawke-Stanton, Charles Baker and Sean Hardrick

5. Coaching Research Students in Higher Education: The Tripartite Model

Cathia Jenainati

6. A Career Coaching Model for Early Career Researchers’ Sustainable Development

Rita Chiesa and Gerardo Petruzziello

Research and Developments

7. The Benefits of Coaching Higher Education Students

Joanna Molyn

8. A Conversational Framework to Help University Students Thrive

Alicia Sepulveda

9.Building Self-Efficacy in University Students through Mindfulness and Character Strengths

Roger Bretherton and Rebecca Park

10. Offering Coaching and Mentoring Courses for Postgraduate Students

Trista Hollweck, Steffie Dmello and Steven Adekambi

11. Placing Health and Wellbeing at the Heart of Coaching Cultures in Higher Education

Jenny Lynden

12. A Model for Internal Coaching in Higher Education During Periods of Organisational Change

Amanda Maclean 

13. Considering the Next Steps in Educator Flourishing

Brittany Rehal

Best Practices and Approaches

14. Coaching Students to be Successful at University

Ruth Hughes and Martine George

15. Coaching University Students for Lifelong Learning in the Asian Context

Ramesh Shahdadpuri, May Lim Sok Mui and Nadya Shaznay Patel

16. Developing Resilience and Socio-Emotional Intelligence in University Students

Camila Devis-Rozental

17. Enhancing Coaching for Student Success with Trauma Informed Care and Psychologically Attuned Communication

Emily McCord and Rebecca Guest-Scott

18. The Art of Starting: Coaching Students on Task Initiation

Rhean Sun, Rachel Stumpf, and Savannah Pham

19. Taking a Coaching Approach when Conducting Research

Jennifer Donnelly

20. Coaching Academics for Critical Reflection

Mary Kolodziejczak

21. Exploring the Coaching Landscape of South African Higher Education

Christelle Liversage

Case studies and impact

22. From Vision to Impact: A Case Study on Building a Coaching Culture 

Joseph A. Moynihan

23. Coaching as pedagogy: Embedding coaching principles in entrepreneurship education

Elona Ndlovu and Patrick Ebewo

24. Coaching in Higher Education: A Coach’s Story

Alana Davis-DeLaria

25. Hopes for the Future

Christian van Nieuwerburgh

Biography

Christian van Nieuwerburgh is a consultant, executive coach and academic. He is Professor of Coaching and Positive Psychology at the Centre for Positive Health Sciences at the RCSI University of Medicine and Health Sciences, Strategic Partner of Instructional Coaching Group, a provider of coach training and consultancy for the education sector and Principal Fellow of the Centre for Wellbeing Science at the Melbourne Graduate School of Education of the University of Melbourne (Australia). Christian has written extensively in the fields of coaching and positive psychology.

Brittany Rehal is a leadership consultant, coach and researcher. Brittany’s consulting focuses on educator flourishing, systems thinking and culture architecture across education and organizational settings. Brittany partners with school districts, universities and organizations in the United States and internationally on leadership development and flourishing initiatives grounded in coaching psychology and positive psychology. Brittany holds graduate degrees in education, applied positive psychology and coaching psychology.