Coaching With Emergence & A Systems Perspective
At GCI we are all about working with emergence, but what exactly do we mean by that? Emergence is a characteristic of nature It’s about what’s already beginning to happen. Emergence is about new growth, as well as understanding what has had its time and is beginning to die back. Sometimes these tendencies are so […]
Stay Awake To The Sub-text
Listening as a coach isn’t always about taking everything your client tells you as verbatim. In adopting a process oriented approach to coaching, we are called to pay attention to what is happening in the moment. It’s not just the content of the client’s narrative that is rich, but also the subtext. The client may […]
History is Not in the Past
As coaches, being aware of the many influences that shape our clients’ lives is critical. These influences include social and historical experiences that aren’t apparent at first glance. Along with several of our graduates, Vicki and I are preparing for a trip to Greece for a process-oriented seminar called Worldwork. These seminars are organized every couple […]
What Lens are You Looking Through?
Have you ever considered your origins and the way they’ve influenced your approach to life and your work? I began my professional life as an Occupational Therapist, so when I connected this morning with a group of OTs who have all become coaches it was like coming home. We spoke a language we all immediately […]
Taking the Next Steps
Do you have a dream you would like to bring into the world? Do you have an idea you want to make real? Recently I was asked to speak and demonstrate coaching at an International Processwork Online Community meeting. I was delighted to coach Catharine MacDonald on her vision: to support IT sector organisations benefit from […]
The Coaching & Transformation Roadmap
Coaches are miners who go to work each day armed with acute observation skills and powerful questions. We work with respect with our clients to reveal their interior worlds; the thoughts, feelings, mindsets and motivations that underpin their decisions and inspire their capabilities. We are privy to our clients’ aspirations.We learn about the worlds they […]
What’s the Difference Between Therapy and Coaching?
As regular readers know, a significant number of our coaching students are psychologists, social workers or therapists expanding their service offering to coaching. But what exactly is the difference? At GCI we work intensively with therapists, many of whom are at the top of their game, and equally committed to becoming highly skilled coaches. This […]
What Do You Really Want?
When Vicki and I first launched the Global Coaching Institute we debated for quite a time about whether we should offer advanced or foundational coach training programs. We went back and forward but no solution really satisfied us. And so the conversations went round and round. You know the feeling! We were caught in a false polarity. False polarities […]
The Push and Pull of Change
The events and motivations that bring clients, whether individuals or teams to coaching can be thought of as either a push or pull force. At the Global Coaching Institute we use the terms attractors and disturbances to describe those forces that provide the impetus to action. Let’s define these terms: Attractors Attractors appear as visions, dreams or […]
Thriving In Disruptive Environments
We are living in an era of disruption, in which rapid technological change demands a radical rethink of the ways we do business and how we live our lives. Are you open to new opportunities and able to harness the potential within unexpected events? Are you an early adopter or do you regard the […]
