European Romanticism

Smorgasbords, Cracked Pots and Potholes: The Role of Chronotopes in Shaping Coaching Conversations

“…This chronotope refers to language that conceptualizes human beings as creative individuals engaged in a continuous striving towards the infinite, where emotions and feelings predominate (Berlin 2013, Furst 1980. This has been shaped by Romanticism which was an artistic and intellectual movement that grew out of the revolutionary change engulfing Europe and the United Sates in the late 18 th Century (Burwick 2015).…”

“…Thus, spending time exploring the inner world has value, as articulated by Humphrey and Tomlinson (2020) with their assertion that poetry can enable a voyage inward towards aspects of self which are unfamiliar or difficult terrain. The Romantic chronotope has been influenced by the Romantic philosophy of the 18th Century, for example, the writings of Fichte, Schlegel, Herder and Goethe, (Fichte, 1916;Millàn-Zaibert, 2007) along with the creative works and poetry of Blake, Shelley, Byron and Wordsworth (Berlin, 2013;Furst, 1980). These works were a reaction against the dominant Enlightenment value of reason in their time, emphasizing instead the importance of intuition, insight, and the irrational.…”

Smorgasbords, Cracked Pots and Potholes: The Role of Chronotopes in Shaping Coaching Conversations

“…This chronotope refers to language that conceptualizes human beings as creative individuals engaged in a continuous striving towards the infinite, where emotions and feelings predominate (Berlin 2013, Furst 1980. This has been shaped by Romanticism which was an artistic and intellectual movement that grew out of the revolutionary change engulfing Europe and the United Sates in the late 18 th Century (Burwick 2015).…”

“…Thus, spending time exploring the inner world has value, as articulated by Humphrey and Tomlinson (2020) with their assertion that poetry can enable a voyage inward towards aspects of self which are unfamiliar or difficult terrain. The Romantic chronotope has been influenced by the Romantic philosophy of the 18th Century, for example, the writings of Fichte, Schlegel, Herder and Goethe, (Fichte, 1916;Millàn-Zaibert, 2007) along with the creative works and poetry of Blake, Shelley, Byron and Wordsworth (Berlin, 2013;Furst, 1980). These works were a reaction against the dominant Enlightenment value of reason in their time, emphasizing instead the importance of intuition, insight, and the irrational.…”