Whether you are a COMENSA member or a visitor hoping to learn more about Coaching and Mentoring research in South Africa, we hope that you will find some value here.

The purpose of the Research Portfolio Committee of COMENSA is to enable academic research to be shared and to guide and facilitate the Coaching and Mentoring profession in South Africa to be scientific practitioner based.

Coaching and mentoring  is an evolving profession which is still in the process of developing its own body of knowledge. We believe that if Coaching and Mentoring are going to successfully develop into a fully fledged profession we will all have to develop an appreciation for life long learning and research as an integral part of our work as coaches. In so doing we will start to build a body of professional knowledge that is based or developed out of research. COMENSA encourages coaches and mentors to improve their academic qualifications and also to practice as scientific practitioners - this is a requirement for advancement to the higher levels of accreditation in terms of the COMENSA Membership and Competency Framework and will also earn credits in the Continuing Professional Development framework.

We hope that these Research pages and links will  encourage a culture where the coaching community starts to continuously reflect on their own work and the work of their peers.  Here you can read existing research, send us your completed research paper, and, for members thinking about starting research or currently engaged in research, find ideas.