Finished MA!

Yesterday I printed out two copies and took them to be bound. Today I parcelled them up and posted them. So it's done the disertation to end my MA: 24k words [plus same again in apendix] on "Spiritual Direction, Life Coaching and Culture".
Abstract reads:
A preliminary investigation into the growth of life coaching and spiritual direction in the West. The perception that there may be similarities between them is investigated further along with the questions of whether the similarities might be significant, whether they have a cultural origin, and if they are and do, what cultural drivers might be involved. This dissertation critically investigates definitions, and outlines histories and explanations of life coaching and spiritual direction. It then looks at the alleged under-supply of Life Coaches and Spiritual Directors with an assessment of likelihoods, leads for further investigation and potential cultural drivers. It also critically explores the ways in which life coaching & spiritual direction resemble each other and the ways in which they differ. In turn, the investigation relates the similarities and differences so identified to cultural patterns and developments in the west; particularly post-modernism, spirituality, business-capitalism.

It concludes that there do appear to be significant similarities between spiritual direction and life coaching and that the differences are mainly phenomenological. The similarities are both methodological and ideological and the nature and extension of the similarities makes it likely that the cultural drivers behind the rise of life coaching and the current forms of spiritual direction are to some extent shared. In addition the content of client-practitioner interactions often appears to reflect and respond to cultural trends variously labelled as late modernity or post-modernity and the concrete conditions of living in a consumerist society where individualisation has become well-embedded and where employment security can no longer be taken for granted.

Bit of academespeak but it's my baby and I love it!
I will happily send a copy [pdf or rtf or sxw] to those who ask and I hope to put it and various other articles etc of mine on a website for download as soon as I fix my ftp problem [got people working on it].

Just got to wait for it to be marked and second marked and then, hopefully the MA will be awarded.