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Papers by Jim LoPresti

Research paper thumbnail of Leadership Coaching as a Growth Cycle: From Transition to Transition

Professional Coaching, 2018

Editors Incorporating a wealth of knowledge from international experts, this is an authoritative ... more Editors Incorporating a wealth of knowledge from international experts, this is an authoritative guide to provide a comprehensive overview of professional coaching. Grounded in current research, it addresses the historical, ethical, theoretical, and practice foundations of professional coaching, and examines such key therapeutic approaches as acceptance and commitment, internal family systems, psychodynamic, and interpersonal. In easily accessible language, the book discusses core considerations for effective practice such as presence, meaning-making, mindfulness, emotions, self-determination, and culture. The book examines the variety of practice settings for the profession, including executive, life/personal, health/wellness, spiritual, team, education, and career coaching, along with critical issues such as research advances, credentialing, and training. Further contributing to coaching savvy, the book has techniques for measuring client progress, applications of adult development, intentional change theory, and more. Key Features: n Provides a comprehensive overview of a fast-growing field n Includes contributions from international experts n Covers historical, professional, philosophical, and theoretical foundations as well as important applications and practice settings n Expands the range of practice settings n Includes free ebook with purchase of print Principle s and Practice

Research paper thumbnail of The Phenomenological Thoreau

Despite its popularity, Walden is a book that is very easily misread." This statement, by the ack... more Despite its popularity, Walden is a book that is very easily misread." This statement, by the acknowledged 'Godfather' of Thoreau studies, Walter Harding, has proven prophetic countless times since it was first declared in 1975. Walden does, as virtually all texts do, hand itself over to a variety of interpretations. Yet it is this absence of absolute interpretive closure that is at the heart of reader-response criticism. As I will demonstrate in this essay, Thoreau is clearly sensitive to the task of the reader, as well as acutely aware of the phenomenological quality of reading as communication. He therefore offers continuous advice, in a way that is demonstrably phenomenological, on how one should read and respond to the text, firmly disclaiming the validity of any particular interpretation over another. In this, he anticipates phenomenology and its offshoot, reception theory or reader-response criticism, by approximately one hundred years. Although I will be referring to a number of illustrative statements throughout Walden, my main concentration will fall on the chapter appropriately titled "Reading."

Research paper thumbnail of The Spirit of Place (a paper delivered at MLA, 04/2005)

Research paper thumbnail of Are We the Tin Man's Children

Research paper thumbnail of S T Coleridge and the Ministry of the Word (Delivered at the Modern Language Association Conference 1995)

But one word with me a ni n g in it is worth the whole alph a b e t tog e t h e r ."

Books by Jim LoPresti

Research paper thumbnail of Leadership Coaching as a Growth Cycle - from Transition to Transition

Professional Coaching - Principles and Practice, 2018

Editors Incorporating a wealth of knowledge from international experts, this is an authoritative ... more Editors Incorporating a wealth of knowledge from international experts, this is an authoritative guide to provide a comprehensive overview of professional coaching. Grounded in current research, it addresses the historical, ethical, theoretical, and practice foundations of professional coaching, and examines such key therapeutic approaches as acceptance and commitment, internal family systems, psychodynamic, and interpersonal. In easily accessible language, the book discusses core considerations for effective practice such as presence, meaning-making, mindfulness, emotions, self-determination, and culture. The book examines the variety of practice settings for the profession, including executive, life/personal, health/wellness, spiritual, team, education, and career coaching, along with critical issues such as research advances, credentialing, and training. Further contributing to coaching savvy, the book has techniques for measuring client progress, applications of adult development, intentional change theory, and more. Key Features: n Provides a comprehensive overview of a fast-growing field n Includes contributions from international experts n Covers historical, professional, philosophical, and theoretical foundations as well as important applications and practice settings n Expands the range of practice settings n Includes free ebook with purchase of print Principle s and Practice

Research paper thumbnail of Leadership Coaching as a Growth Cycle: From Transition to Transition

Professional Coaching, 2018

Editors Incorporating a wealth of knowledge from international experts, this is an authoritative ... more Editors Incorporating a wealth of knowledge from international experts, this is an authoritative guide to provide a comprehensive overview of professional coaching. Grounded in current research, it addresses the historical, ethical, theoretical, and practice foundations of professional coaching, and examines such key therapeutic approaches as acceptance and commitment, internal family systems, psychodynamic, and interpersonal. In easily accessible language, the book discusses core considerations for effective practice such as presence, meaning-making, mindfulness, emotions, self-determination, and culture. The book examines the variety of practice settings for the profession, including executive, life/personal, health/wellness, spiritual, team, education, and career coaching, along with critical issues such as research advances, credentialing, and training. Further contributing to coaching savvy, the book has techniques for measuring client progress, applications of adult development, intentional change theory, and more. Key Features: n Provides a comprehensive overview of a fast-growing field n Includes contributions from international experts n Covers historical, professional, philosophical, and theoretical foundations as well as important applications and practice settings n Expands the range of practice settings n Includes free ebook with purchase of print Principle s and Practice

Research paper thumbnail of The Phenomenological Thoreau

Despite its popularity, Walden is a book that is very easily misread." This statement, by the ack... more Despite its popularity, Walden is a book that is very easily misread." This statement, by the acknowledged 'Godfather' of Thoreau studies, Walter Harding, has proven prophetic countless times since it was first declared in 1975. Walden does, as virtually all texts do, hand itself over to a variety of interpretations. Yet it is this absence of absolute interpretive closure that is at the heart of reader-response criticism. As I will demonstrate in this essay, Thoreau is clearly sensitive to the task of the reader, as well as acutely aware of the phenomenological quality of reading as communication. He therefore offers continuous advice, in a way that is demonstrably phenomenological, on how one should read and respond to the text, firmly disclaiming the validity of any particular interpretation over another. In this, he anticipates phenomenology and its offshoot, reception theory or reader-response criticism, by approximately one hundred years. Although I will be referring to a number of illustrative statements throughout Walden, my main concentration will fall on the chapter appropriately titled "Reading."

Research paper thumbnail of The Spirit of Place (a paper delivered at MLA, 04/2005)

Research paper thumbnail of Are We the Tin Man's Children

Research paper thumbnail of S T Coleridge and the Ministry of the Word (Delivered at the Modern Language Association Conference 1995)

But one word with me a ni n g in it is worth the whole alph a b e t tog e t h e r ."

Research paper thumbnail of Leadership Coaching as a Growth Cycle - from Transition to Transition

Professional Coaching - Principles and Practice, 2018

Editors Incorporating a wealth of knowledge from international experts, this is an authoritative ... more Editors Incorporating a wealth of knowledge from international experts, this is an authoritative guide to provide a comprehensive overview of professional coaching. Grounded in current research, it addresses the historical, ethical, theoretical, and practice foundations of professional coaching, and examines such key therapeutic approaches as acceptance and commitment, internal family systems, psychodynamic, and interpersonal. In easily accessible language, the book discusses core considerations for effective practice such as presence, meaning-making, mindfulness, emotions, self-determination, and culture. The book examines the variety of practice settings for the profession, including executive, life/personal, health/wellness, spiritual, team, education, and career coaching, along with critical issues such as research advances, credentialing, and training. Further contributing to coaching savvy, the book has techniques for measuring client progress, applications of adult development, intentional change theory, and more. Key Features: n Provides a comprehensive overview of a fast-growing field n Includes contributions from international experts n Covers historical, professional, philosophical, and theoretical foundations as well as important applications and practice settings n Expands the range of practice settings n Includes free ebook with purchase of print Principle s and Practice