Analysis of Participant Experiences during the Psychodynamic Group-coaching Process on a Short Executive Program

In order to better understand the underlying psychological processes that exist beyond the technical process of psychodynamic group-coaching, I decided as part of this research to interview participants of a former program. Now that the reader has some understanding of how the process is enacted, I wanted to understand what the participants experienced. This chapter aims to unearth and explain some of the key aspects of the developing theory around psychodynamics, groups, and coaching when they have been linked together in one intervention. We know from the self-reported scoring, already seen in Chapter 1, that the immediate or “post-treatment” effect is good. I now turn my attention to a series of structured interviews of participants of a specific program that took place in 2009.