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How does it happen: the miracle of change we are privileged to observe and co-experience—these pivots our clients make? As coaches, we were both fascinated and humbled by our clients’ capacity and courage to overcome obstacles, to shift their limiting perspectives and, in some cases, to reorganize their sense of self-identity. Through our research we began to assemble the components we recognized and experienced as happening in real time with our clients that could feasibly contribute to a coach’s theory for igniting substantial change.

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    Kelso (1995).

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    Kelso (1995).

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    Kelso (1995).

  4. 4.

    Kelso (1995), p. 26.

  5. 5.

    Kelso (1995), p. 46.

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    Folger (2007).

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    For example, Heidegger, Piaget, May, Husserl, Whitrow, James, McGrath and Kelly are just a few of the modern theorists.

  8. 8.

    Clancy (1996).

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    Lewin (1948).

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    Orem, Binkert and Clancy (2007), pp. 64–65.

  11. 11.

    The prominent founders of gestalt theory are Max Wertheimer, Wolfgang Köhler and Kurt Koffka.

  12. 12.

    For example, Master of Arts in Mindfulness Studies at Leslie University in Cambridge, MA, started by Nancy Waring, who studied under Jon Kabat-Zin, who is considered to be a forefather of mindfulness studies and programmes in the USA.

  13. 13.

    Rosch (2007).

  14. 14.

    Rosch (2007), p. 259.

  15. 15.

    Rosch (2007), p. 261.

  16. 16.

    Seelasettho (2013).

  17. 17.

    Seelasettho (2013), p. 5.

  18. 18.

    Seelasettho (2013), p. 1.

  19. 19.

    Wilson (2014).

  20. 20.

    Kabat-Zinn (1990).

  21. 21.

    Bishop et al. (2004).

  22. 22.

    Bishop et al. (2004), p. 230.

  23. 23.

    Bishop et al. (2004), p. 234.

  24. 24.

    Bishop et al. (2004), p. 235.

  25. 25.

    Bishop et al. (2004), p. 238.

  26. 26.

    Langer (2000).

  27. 27.

    Cameron and Fredrickson (2015).

  28. 28.

    Boyatzis and McKee (2005).

  29. 29.

    Passmore and Marianetti (2013).

  30. 30.

    Spence, Cavanagh and Grant (2008).

  31. 31.

    Riddle (2012).

  32. 32.

    Tang et al. (2007).

  33. 33.

    Hutcherson, Seppala and Gross (2008).

  34. 34.

    Napoli, Krech and Holley (2005).

  35. 35.

    Myss (1996), p. 35.

  36. 36.

    Biess et al. (2010).

  37. 37.

    Sullivan (2013).

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    Sullivan (2013).

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    Febvre (1941/1973).

  40. 40.

    Sullivan (2013), p. 97.

  41. 41.

    Sullivan (2013), p. 95.

  42. 42.

    Sullivan (2013), p. 95.

  43. 43.

    In 2010, historian Frank Bies with the University of California, San Diego, invited colleagues Alon Confino (University of Virginia), Ute Frevert (Max-Planck-Institut für Bildungsforschung), Uffa Jensen (Universitat Gottingen), Lyndol Roper (University of Oxford) and Daniela Saxer (Universitat Zurich/ETH Zurich) to be part of a virtual dialogue.

  44. 44.

    Biess et al. (2010).

  45. 45.

    Biess et al. (2010), p. 69.

  46. 46.

    Biess et al. (2010), p. 69.

  47. 47.

    Biess et al. (2010), p. 69.

  48. 48.

    Biess, et al. (2010), p. 70.

  49. 49.

    Biess et al. (2010), p. 71.

  50. 50.

    Biess et al. (2010), p. 68.

  51. 51.

    Hanson and Mendius (2009).

  52. 52.

    Hockenbury and Hockenbury (2007).

  53. 53.

    Fredrickson and Branigan (2005), p. 313.

  54. 54.

    Fredrickson and Branigan (2005), p. 313.

  55. 55.

    Fridja (1986), Lazarus (1991).

  56. 56.

    Fredrickson and Branigan (2005), p. 314.

  57. 57.

    Fredrickson (1998).

  58. 58.

    Fredrickson (2013).

  59. 59.

    Fredrickson and Levenson (1998).

  60. 60.

    Fredrickson (2013), p. 8.

  61. 61.

    Fredrickson and Branigan (2005), p. 314.

  62. 62.

    Fredrickson (2013).

  63. 63.

    Fredrickson, Cohn, Coffey, Pek and Finkel (2008), p. 1045.

  64. 64.

    Fredrickson (2013).

  65. 65.

    Fredrickson et al. (2008), p. 1045.

  66. 66.

    Johnson, Waugh and Fredrickson (2010).

  67. 67.

    Fredrickson et al. (2008).

  68. 68.

    Catalino and Fredrickson (2011).

  69. 69.

    Cohn and Fredrickson (2010).

  70. 70.

    Fredrickson (2013).

  71. 71.

    Fredrickson (2013).

  72. 72.

    McCraty (2015).

  73. 73.

    Sharot (2011).

  74. 74.

    Descartes (1637/1986), p. 65.

  75. 75.

    Harle (2007) p. 589.

  76. 76.

    Rosch, Thompson and Varda (1991), pp. 172–173.

  77. 77.

    Pfeifer and Bongard (2007).

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    Pfeifer and Bongard (2007), p. 20.

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    Moravec (1988), p. 15.

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    Moravec (1988), pp. 15–16.

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    Pfeifer and Bongard (2007), p. 353.

  82. 82.

    Pfeifer and Bongard (2007).

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Clancy, A.L., Binkert, J. (2017). Pivoting: The Extraordinary Power of Self-Organization. In: Pivoting. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-60263-3_3

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