Ciara Bomford – författare

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.

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.

Creative Career Coaching: Theory into Practice is an innovative book for career development students and professionals aiming to creatively progress their coaching practice. Without losing sight of fundamental coaching values and practices, it encourages career development professionals to adapt their practice by harnessing imagination, intuition and critical reflection to engage clients. Hambly and Bomford consider the usefulness of creativity alongside traditional coaching models to reach "harder to help" groups. They consider a whole-brain approach to creativity, emphasising the need for coaches to adapt their client-facing skills for individual cases. They work through how clients make career decisions, how to use labour market information to motivate clients, how to frame a creative coaching session using techniques such as metaphor, visualisation and role play, how to use practical tools and techniques to resolve a client’s individual needs, and how to deliver on digital platforms. Combining the latest neuroscientific research with activities, summaries and case studies, this book provides a practical, skills-based approach to coaching. Creative Career Coaching: Theory into Practice is the first book to summarise the Creative Career Coaching Model. It will be an indispensable resource for students of career development, career coaching, coaching psychology and advice and guidance courses. It will also be of interest to career coaches in practice seeking to enhance their skills.