16th September 2018 Aubyn Howard ‘The unexamined life is not worth living…’ Socrates as reported by Plato Why are personal and professional development inseparable in coaching? Within psychosynthesis coaching, we view the coach’s ability to practice a psychospiritual approach as a Read more…
8 April 2018 Aubyn Howard It is now fairly widely accepted in the coaching world that good coaching needs to be under-pinned by coaching psychology in some way, in terms of the education and training of coaches, their understanding of Read more…
10 January 2017 When running courses on coaching, we are frequently asked questions about the relationship, boundaries and differences between therapy or counselling and coaching. This topic is fraught with difficulty and complexity and is prone to trite or superficial Read more…
17 May 2017 Change has been an enduring preoccupation of organisational development practitioners, certainly since I got involved in OD in the early 90’s. You might say that achieving successful intentional transformative change, whether at individual or collective levels, is Read more…
On a recent coaching course workshop, one of our students shared with surprise, their realisation that they had been engaging in personal development for many years through the lens or filter of their survival self, rather than their healthy or Read more…
Alchemy is making a comeback. Cast into the shadows by the enlightenment and modern science, the notion of alchemy, albeit in a metaphorical sense in relationship to human consciousness and will, is seemingly becoming relevant again. Definition: al·che·my alkəmē/ Read more…
22nd January 2017 What are the emergent challenges that leaders need most help with from their coaches? I’m going to highlight two big themes here, which increasingly arise in both my own coaching practice and the coaching courses we are Read more…
4th October 2016 Back in March I celebrated the completion of our first PGCPLC programme, with the following: Many thanks to each of our co-pioneers for trusting us enough to embark on this journey of learning and discovery (to see Read more…
27 August 2016 [This is an article I recently wrote about organisational development, elaborating on a theme in my recently published chapter on the impact of leadership styles on pharmaceutical industry innovation, and has some relevance to leadership coaching] What capabilities should leaders Read more…
11th August 2016 In my last post (14 July) I recommended Charles Handy’s recently published ‘Second Curve’ (2014). Below is a review that I wrote of this book, with some thoughts for leadership coaches added at the end. Review In Read more…