Resources
Resource center
Overviews and guides for reviewers, researchers, and partners. Items still in preparation are clearly marked; nothing here is claimed to exist before it does.
Guides and briefs
Ubuntu Roots Coaching™ Framework Overview
A concise introduction to the premise, the Living Tree Model, and the five dimensions, for a first orientation to the approach.
Institutional Assessment Guide
How professional bodies and reviewers can examine the framework against coaching competencies, ethics, and scope-of-practice boundaries.
Research and Evaluation Concept Note
Proposed research questions, possible study designs, suggested measures, and ethical protections for independent study.
Ethical and Cultural Stewardship Guide
The attribution protocol, use/avoid language policy, and commitments to consultation, correction, and refinement.
Practitioner Orientation Guide
A proposed orientation to using the framework with autonomy, consent, confidentiality, cultural humility, and supervision.
About the framework
- Ubuntu Roots Coaching™ is a proprietary methodology of Maturity.Coach.
- The framework is under active development and open to ethical critique, consultation, and independent assessment.
- Intellectual-property ownership does not imply ownership of, authority over, or representation of the cultural traditions referenced by the framework.
- The framework steward is responsible for maintaining ethical boundaries, version control, attribution practices, practitioner guidance, and response processes for substantive feedback.
Documentation roadmap
Planned documentation. Items are marked Planned for development or Available upon institutional inquiry; none is claimed to exist until supplied.
- Framework Manual — Planned for development
- Practitioner Competency and Preparation Guide — Planned for development
- Ethical and Cultural Stewardship Protocol — Planned for development
- Coaching Agreement and Consent Templates — Planned for development
- Research and Evaluation Concept Note — Available upon institutional inquiry
- Pilot-Study Protocol Template — Planned for development
- Framework Fidelity and Adaptation Guide — Defines which elements are core and non-negotiable (ethical boundaries, client autonomy, confidentiality, consent-based community involvement) versus adaptable (metaphors, pacing, practices, contextual emphasis), and the conditions under which adaptation is permissible. Planned for development.
- Annotated Reading and Source List — Planned for development
- Governance, Intellectual Property, and Licensing Brief — Available upon institutional inquiry
Frequently asked questions
Selected readings to be developed and verified
No academic citations are listed until verified sources are supplied. The reading list will be organized around these categories:
- Coaching theory and ethics
- Relational leadership
- Adult development
- Systems thinking
- Culturally responsive and decolonial research methodology
- Community-based participatory research
- Scholarship relevant to Ubuntu and relational philosophies
Citations will be added only when verified and approved.