Coaching in Islamic Culture

Raja'a Yousif Allaho is an executive coach, speaker, trainer, and writer. She has over twenty years of experience in the provision of consultancy, training, and coaching, specialising in people development and performance. She is a proficient certified coach and trainer with extensive experience of providing coaching and training services for managers and executives. Combining international knowledge with local cultural context, she successfully supports executives to achieve their targets and aspirations. She works primarily in the oil, government, telecommunications, and banking sectors. Raja'a is the founder and leader of Mashar Coaching School, the first bilingual coaching school in the Middle East where she has trained, coached, and mentored more than 120 professional coaches. As a master trainer of personal development assessment tools and methodologies, Raja'a is certified by a number of international companies. Christian van Nieuwerburgh is a highly sought-after executive coach, researcher, educational consultant, and keynote speaker with significant leadership experience in the public sector. He currently divides his professional time between three engaging and rewarding roles. He is Programme Leader for the MSc in Coaching and Coaching Psychology at the University of East London, where he heads one of the world's leading university-based postgraduate programmes in coaching psychology; his particular area of expertise is in the impact of coaching within the education sector. He is also Chief Executive of the International Centre for Coaching in Education, through whi|ch he delivers consultancy, training, and executive coaching to clients in the UK and internationally. And he is Executive Coach for West Midlands Councils, for whom he acts as an executive coach and facilitator of peer supervision working across a number of public sector organisations in the West Midlands. Christian has enjoyed a richly diverse career. He held senior marketing and business development roles in a number of organisations within the hospitality and fast moving consumer goods sectors in the Middle East, a marketing role for the Royal Shakespeare Company, and senior management roles in two highly rated local authorities in the UK.

'This groundbreaking new text provides theoretical insights and practical ideas about the use of coaching in Islamic culture. Not only does it seek the inclusion of values and principles in coaching conversations, these become the very basis of coaching practice. It is essential reading for anyone interested in using coaching in a way that aligns with Islamic ethics and tradition.'- Professor Nora Ann Colton, Deputy Vice Chancellor, University of East London

• Series Editor’s Foreword , Foreword , Introduction , A brief history of coaching , Coaching in Islamic culture , Listening with purpose , Asking powerful questions , Summarising and paraphrasing , Giving and receiving feedback , Ershad coaching framework , The Alignment Wheel , The coaching way of being , Conclusion , Case studies and personal stories