Part 3 of a series on personal development in coaching In the first part of this series of posts, I summarised the primary task of personal development as getting to know and mastering our personality, through exploring all levels of our consciousness. I also like the phrase our Italian psychosynthesis partners Read more…
Topic Series: Personal development and the leadership coach Part 2: Seven perspectives on personal development for coaches In my last post on this topic I described personal development as “a vast and complex topic that can be approached in many different ways… inter-woven as it is with the whole field Read more…
The first Annual Psychosynthesis Leadership Coaching symposium was held at the National Council for Voluntary Organizations (NCVO) near King’s Cross in London on 14thNovember 2018. Tong-len means ‘giving and taking’ in Tibetan. Keith Hackwood led a Tonglen meditation as part of a plenary session on Selfcare for Coaches Using Mindfulness, Read more…
20 November 2018 [ I ran a session on this topic at our Psychosynthesis Coaching Symposium on Wednesday 14th November and this is the full article I referred to then.] Introduction Is neuroscience telling us anything new? How do we reconcile scientific and psycho-spiritual perspectives? Most coaches will have come across Read more…
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 function of their own level of personal development, psycho-spiritual training 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 themselves and their clients, the approaches and methods they bring 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 treatment, so I want to have a go at shedding 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 the holy grail of our profession – desirable, mysterious, elusive, 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 authentic self. At the time, I thought this was an 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/ noun: alchemy the medieval forerunner of chemistry, based on the Read more…