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To examine how coaches can ethically navigate tensions when supporting coachees in critically reflecting on and redefining their relationship to organizational contexts.

August 19, 2026Coaching An International Journal of Theory Research and Practice

Immunity-to-change coaching for critical consciousness development

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RGRajashi GhoshNew Leaders DHDeborah HelsingApplied Minds (United States)

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Conceptual analysis demonstrates how immunity-to-change frameworks calibrate challenge and support in workplace coaching, highlighting the necessity of assessing coachee readiness.

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To examine how coaches can ethically navigate tensions when supporting coachees in critically reflecting on and redefining their relationship to organizational contexts.
Theory synthesis integrating constructive-developmental theory, Immunity to Change (ITC), and critical and feminist coaching perspectives.
Identifies that critical and feminist coaching approaches carry psychological, relational, and organizational risks when developmental readiness is overlooked.
Positions the ITC methodology as an effective diagnostic tool to assess coachee readiness and create psychologically safe holding environments.
Proposes an ethically responsive coaching model that balances developmental challenge and support against competing organizational and individual goals.

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Ghosh et al. (2026) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a85633c03308d306e2d6389 https://doi.org/10.1080/17521882.2026.2716604

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Conceptual analysis demonstrates how immunity-to-change frameworks calibrate challenge and support in workplace coaching, highlighting the necessity of assessing coachee readiness.

Immunity-to-change coaching for critical consciousness development

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Immunity-to-change coaching for critical consciousness development

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