Coaching Praxis: Weaving Philosophical Foundations and Reflective Practices Into the Art of Coaching

This article conceives Coaching as praxis—philosophy, reflection, and ethics in action. Drawing on Dewey, Merleau-Ponty, and Freire, the article frames coaching as relational, embodied, and context-sensitive. Existential, phenomenological, constructivist, and pragmatic traditions inform a being–thinking–doing model linking ontological presence, reflective inquiry, and ethical action through recursive feedback. Critical, somatic, and creative reflection are delineated, with supervision articulated as a mechanism for sustaining ethical involvement. Implications for coach education include developmental learning, arts-based pedagogy, reflective portfolios, and ethically grounded supervision, supporting the formation of practitioners who are wise, relational, and responsive within complex settings.