Coach Certification
Develop the capacity, presence, and skill to meet people where they are, with training to support every step of your journey.
Personal Development
Discover your depths and start from where you are with the support of a compassionate community of like-hearted learners.
Leadership Development
Drive greater alignment, effectiveness and wellbeing across your organization by nurturing leadership skills at every level.
Advanced Training
Cultivate your quality of presence, effectiveness, and support as you deepen into your own development as a coach.
How It Works
Open to new possibilities for yourself and your clients, grounded in our rigorous Integral Coaching methodology.
Our Approach
As the global leader in Integral Coach training and leadership development, we support how people deepen into their unique gifts.
Integral Coaching Glossary
New to Integral Coaching? Familiarize yourself with the language of our methodology and coaching more broadly.
Integral Coaching FAQ
Living the questions? Find answers here to some of the most common questions we receive about our programs.
Leadership Model
We strive for balance in all we do, including stewarding the rich history of this work, this organization, and this community.
Staff & Faculty
Your journey is supported at every step by dedicated, compassionate people committed to your growth, learning, and wellbeing.
Our Commitments
What we value guides everything we do—from the programs we design to the communities we foster. Learn more about what motivates us.
Our History
New Ventures West has pioneered one of the most transformative forms of human development over four decades.
Contact Us
Relationships are at the heart of our work. Reach out to explore how Integral Coaching could support your journey.
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To help us understand you better and to give yourself an experience of what engaging in the Professional Coaching Course could be for you, please take some time and honestly reflect on these questions.
This is not a competitive exercise. The point isn’t to promote yourself or convince us to accept you as a student. Rather it’s about seeing beyond your usual habitual ways of knowing yourself and exploring in a deeper way what your edges of strength and developmental are, right now, in your current life.
Please answer each question in 200-400 words.
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3. At New Ventures West you will become a member of an active coaching community dedicated to the study of Integral Coaching. As a first step, we ask that you assess yourself in the following categories. The definitions are below.
For each assessment, please
The ability to make observations in a particular field of activity (e.g., business, philosophy, cooking) and then to synthesize the observations into a coherent understanding. “Understanding” means that possibilities for action are seen, accurate predictions can be made and potential breakdowns foreseen.
The ability to discern your own emotional states, what are you feeling at this moment, what is the background emotional tone of your life, what emotions are present when you experience difficulties, etc.; also, the ability to discern the emotional state of others, even when they themselves may be oblivious to it or denying it. This includes the ability to stay present and available in relationship and in communication in the midst of strong emotional events, be they yours or others.
The ability to observe what is happening in your body, e.g. energized, tired, heavy, open, tight, etc., and to include what you observe into your understanding of the current moment. It’s being able to tap into the wisdom of your body that may have a different insight into what’s happening than your intellect or your emotions.
The ability to create a life dedicated to the benefit of everyone, not only for the advantage of yourself, family, company or clan. This means the competence to initiate and sustain practices that strengthen your bond to the wide web of life connecting all people, all living systems and all things. This also includes developing ourselves into an active member in communities dedicated to compassion, wisdom and service to others.