Creative Career Coaching

Creative Career Coaching: Theory into Practice is a practical and inspiring guide to supporting individuals in navigating their career journeys with creativity, confidence and purpose. Blending theory with hands-on strategies, it offers coaches and practitioners fresh ways to help clients shape meaningful, fulfilling work lives. This updated second edition responds to today's global challenges and the growing importance of mental wellbeing in career development. It expands on contemporary career theories and coaching methodologies, showing how imagination, metaphor and reflective exercises can unlock new perspectives for clients, empowering them to move forward with confidence and authenticity. Prized by practitioners for its practical approach, the book links theory to practice through rich case studies and examples of how to use creative questions and techniques in real coaching conversations. It is the only book to cover the Creative Career Coaching model, now widely adopted across the UK. This book will inspire career coaches, careers advisers, counsellors, educators and HR professionals seeking to enrich their practice with creative approaches. It is equally valuable for students of career development and coaching, offering theoretical grounding and practical tools to inspire transformative conversations with clients facing change, uncertainty and complex challenges.

Liane Hambly is an international career development educator with over 35 years of experience as a coach, supervisor, lecturer and author. She collaborates with organisations to strengthen practitioner skills and embed career management competencies into service delivery. In 2021, she received a CDI fellowship for her contribution to the field. Ciara Bomford, People Development Manager at Careers Wales, brings 30 years' expertise in training, assessing and coaching careers practitioners. She has led initiatives improving guidance standards across Wales, coached hundreds and champions trauma-informed practice and resilience. Her mission is to inspire practitioners to use creative methods that empower clients with confidence, purpose and authenticity.

PART 1 Setting the scene 1 The bigger picture 2 A brief history of career development theory 3 The brilliant brain: Insights from neuropsychology PART 2 Managing interactions 4 Micro skills: The building blocks 5 Process models 6 Laying the foundations 7 Frameworks for exploring the client's story 8 Goals and actions 9 Digital coaching 10 Trauma-informed practice 11 Working with groups PART 3 Designing your session to meet client needs 12 Motivation and readiness 13 Approach to decision-making 14 Self-awareness 15 Opportunity awareness 16 Transition 17 Resilience PART 4 Practitioner issues 18 Resilience of the coach