Presence as Originating Ground, Presencing as Way

The Twofold Approach of the Coaching Field in Dynamic Presencing Coaching

Abstract

Contemporary presence-based and presencing-informed coaching approaches increasingly recognize the importance of embodiment, emergence, relational depth, and the transformative potential of presence. Yet the ontological relationship between presence and presencing remains insufficiently articulated. Presence is often described as a practitioner capacity, relational quality, or condition of effective coaching, while comparatively less attention has been given to how presence functions as the originating ground from which presencing unfolds. As a result, presencing is frequently approached as a conversational process, field phenomenon, or mode of emergence without a corresponding account of the ontological foundations that enable it to become embodied, stabilized, and inhabitable as a way of being. This article addresses that gap by introducing Dynamic Presencing Coaching (DPC) (Gunnlaugson, 2020–2026), a presence-sourced and presencing-guided approach that distinguishes between Presence Work and Presencing Work as two interdependent dimensions of the coaching field. In DPC, presence functions as the originating ground from which presencing unfolds, while presencing refers to the living movement through which embodied presence becomes generative within experience, relationship, and the coaching field. The article develops a twofold account of the coaching process, clarifying how presence establishes the ontological conditions for transformational emergence and how presencing carries that emergence forward as a lived way of being. Through this distinction, DPC offers a developmental and ontological framework for understanding how presencing becomes embodied, sustained, and inhabitable within coaching practice.