Life coach as midwife: Reflections on a Socratic metaphor

Coaching

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 43-54

  Steinmetz, Joel N ^a  

^a Philosophical Coaching   (United States)

Author keywords

Inquiry; Midwife; Philosophy; Socrates; Socratic method; Transformation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84868248730     PISSN: 17521882     EISSN: 17521890     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/17521882.2011.648333     Document Type: Article

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