Why an article about the positivity bias in coaching? Surely coaching is about accentuating the positive, bringing about positive change in people’s lives? Working towards desired goals and outcomes, realising inner potential and supporting personal growth? Well, yes on one hand there is a natural or default emphasis or bias Read more…
In my previous article I described some evolutionary trends in the coaching profession and made the case for a holistic approach to leadership coaching. In this and subsequent articles I will explore critical issues facing the profession as a whole, starting with the need to make self-regulation work effectively in Read more…
The modern coaching profession as we know it today has evolved through a complex interplay of origins, including sports coaching, various psychologies and the human helping professions – in response to an ever changing panoply of individual and organisation needs. The profession has grown with a richness in diversity such Read more…
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…