Criticality in Coaching and Beyond: Towards a Deeper Understanding

By Tatiana Bachkirova

This book explores the concept of criticality, a quality that supports a deeper understanding of complex situations that people encounter at work and interpersonal relationship. For contemporary coaches it offers ideas on how they can develop the essential quality of criticality to work with clients in a significantly changing world.

Criticality is seen not just as critical thinking skills but as a state of mind that involves a philosophical stance, an emotional attitude and an agentic action. The book provides coaches with intellectually rich material and many practical ways for the development of their criticality and existentially coherent ways of responding to current realities. This in turn should equip coaches for helping clients to question and examine their work and life in the most meaningful ways.

This book will appeal to both new and experienced coaches, coaching supervisors and coaching educators. It will also be of interest to other practitioners of professional services based on interpersonal relationships, such as those in applied psychology, counselling, and psychotherapy.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 104112922X
• ISBN13: 9781041129226
• Release Date: November 2026
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 152 Pages