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Personal and professional coaching is a billion-dollar industry with roots in the Golden Age of Greece.

Recombinant coaching is an integration of ancient wisdom and modern biological and social sciences.

Using a scoping review technology, we can identify the essential elements of a recombinant coaching model.

The first written records of personal coaching can be found in the writings of Homer. In the first book of The Odyssey (Common English Translation), it is written that as Odysseus departed for Troy, he asked his trusted friend Mentor to guide his son Telemachus in his absence. The process of helping, advising, and guiding is commonly referred to as “mentoring” as the term itself is derived from the name of the character Mentor in Homer’s Odyssey. The origins of the modern version of coaching can be found in the writings of MIT professor Edgar Schein, who wrote the groundbreaking treatise “Process Consultation” in 1969. Process consultation and humanistic psychology serve as the foundation of the vast majority of both personal and professional coaching models used today. The coaching industry is a multi-billion-dollar industry. Breakthroughs in this industry are necessarily predicated less upon revelations from the newest science but more upon integrations of wisdom and science hiding in plain sight. Even generative artificial intelligence (Gen AI) creates novel output by combining and functionally integrating existing knowledge.

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