
Reclaiming Love in Coaching
In its pursuit of professional credibility, coaching has built frameworks, competencies and measurable outcomes, but in doing so it risks losing the essence that makes it come alive: love.

The world is breaking; fearful organisations grip more tightly, demanding performance, at the expense of humanity, and that seeps into our coaching: we become more risk-averse, the people we work with more guarded.
In its pursuit of professional credibility, coaching has built frameworks, competencies and measurable outcomes, but in doing so it risks losing the essence that makes it come alive: love.
This book is a call to bring love back.
Writing as a fellow traveller, Clare Norman argues that love surrounds effective coaching. Yet naming it feels revolutionary because it places our hearts at the centre of professional practice and challenges systems that reduce people to productivity. In an age of AI, love may be what makes human coaching irreplaceable.
For coaches, this means:
- Recognising and undoing the conditioning that taught you to leave love at the door of your practice
- Trusting the intelligence of your heart as a catalyst for change
- Coaching as a whole human being
Drawing on neuroscience, spirituality and decades of practice, Clare beckons you into the inner work that leads you back to what you already know but may have forgotten how to access. Coaching from love reconnects us with the reason many of us became coaches in the first place.
Where fear creates distance and division, coaching from love is the antidote: one coach, one thinker and one loving conversation at a time.
"Profoundly human and gritty, this book captures the deep longing we feel as practitioners to move beyond the superficial and return to what truly matters. When we coach from an experience of our fundamental belovedness, and we stay connected to the wider field of love, we are participating in a truly revolutionary act with tangible ripple effects. A stunning and fiery masterwork."
Christi Byerly Founder of Awaken Coach Institute and author of Holy Rebellion.
"A thought-provoking and courageous contribution to the coaching field, offering both inspiration and challenge for practitioners who wish to work with greater depth and humanity."
Marie Quigley, MCC
Coach Supervisor and Mentor Coach, author of Fierce Love: Essential lessons in coaching with courage, compassion, and curiosity.
"Love is not a sentiment that accompanies the coaching; it is the mechanism by which transformation occurs. This book shows us how it’s done! It belongs on the desk of anyone who believes that how we develop people and how we redesign the world are, finally, the same question."
Allard De Jong Director & Senior Faculty, Team Coaching Studio.
"This manifesto, courageous and visionary, arrives at a time when the levels of anxiety, disorientation and overwhelm are paralyzing many leaders. Courageous and visionary!"
Amy Elizabeth Fox author, CEO of Mobius Executive Leadership.
"A reminder that living and coaching from presence and love is a spiritual practice, and healing medicine for these times."
Kay Young Leadership Coach / Coaching Supervisor / Transpersonal Psychotherapist / Adventurer.
"Clare Norman offers a courageous and deeply timely exploration of love as a transformational force in coaching and beyond. Her writing feels both grounded and deeply human, inviting us to reconnect with what truly matters, making this a moving, thought-provoking and quietly radical contribution."
Andrew Chandler Coach and CEO, Barefoot Coaching.
"This is not only Clare Norman’s best book, it’s her most important, and may be the most important book you read all year. In an AI-fuelled era where the machines can do practically anything but show genuine compassion, we need humans to grow in their ability to do just that. This book will guide you through that growth, so that you in turn can guide those you coach and love."
Bob Gerard Learning Innovation Leader; Co-host, The Learning Geeks podcast.

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