
Practical Wisdom Coaching
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This book brings a character-based, virtue ethics approach into education and coaching to help practitioners, clients, and students pursue contextually flourishing lives.
Positive psychology has highlighted the importance of virtues and strengths in applied practice, yet it often overlooks practical wisdom: The ability to navigate real-world complexity, where virtues can conflict or be expressed in excess. Virtues must be applied with balance, neither in excess nor deficiency, and practical wisdom is an essential tool to help navigate these competing values. This book bridges the gap between theoretical virtues and their practical application, to unpack the theory and provide empirical evidence and practical methods for addressing such tensions in everyday life and professional practice.
Presenting a structured and philosophically grounded framework for flourishing, this book will appeal to coaches, coaching psychologists, counsellors, educators, therapists, mentors, and leaders seeking to integrate timeless wisdom into their work.
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Shane McLoughlin is an Associate Professor at the Jubilee Centre for Character and Virtues, University of Birmingham. He teaches primarily on the Centre's flagship MA in Character Education, with over a decade of experience teaching across undergraduate and postgraduate programmes in Psychology and Education. His research focuses on character education, practical wisdom, and flourishing.
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Preface Section 1: The Ground Beneath Our Feet 1. The Philosopher And The Conqueror 2. The CIVIC Model For Flourishing - Because Some Goals Are Stupid and/or Evil Section 2: The Four Pillars Of Practical Wisdom Coaching 3. Character Friendship - Bringing Out The Best In Ourselves And Others 4. The Golden Mean Between Virtue And Vice 5. Practical Wisdom (Phronesis) - What It Is, How To Measure It and What It Predicts 6. Tragic Flaws - How Imperfect People Can Still Be Good Section 3: Praxis 7. Practical Applications 8. Beyond The Known World
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