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Positive psychology coaching: putting the science of happiness to work for your clients, by R. Biswas-Diener and B. Dean

Coaching and positive psychology appear to be a perfect fit. Where positive psychology is the scientific study of what constitutes the life well-lived (Seligman & Csikszentmihalyi, 2000), the essence of coaching is a collaborative, solution-focused, action-oriented methodology that aims to enhance the coachee’s personal and/or professional life experience, goal attainment and well-being (Grant, 2003). To date, there has been considerable progress in the field of positive psychology as regards understanding human strengths and values. However, much of the work thus far has been about investigating the nature of the relationships between various constructs, such as self-concordance, well-being, goal attainment and goal satisfaction (Sheldon & Elliot, 1999), the measurement of constructs such as well-being (Ryff & Keyes, 1996) or the development of a taxonomy of human strengths (Peterson & Seligman, 2004), rather than research into how best to operationalize positive psychology constructs within a one-to-one helping relationship such as coaching. There have been several book chapters and a number of journal articles on this topic (c.f., Kauffman & Scoular, 2004; Seligman, 2007), and there are several solid texts on using positive psychology primarily within consulting relationships rather than coaching (e.g., Linley & Joseph, 2004). However, to the best of my knowledge, Biswas-Diener and Dean’s Positive Psychology Coaching is the first complete book to systematically present the major findings of positive psychology explicitly for use in coaching practice.