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Navigating Complex Systems
Waking from Busyness
Intersection of Family and Philosophy
Bringing the Wisdom of the Heart into Coaching
James was interviewed recently by Joel Monk, co-founder of Coaches Rising. This interview one of a series leading up to the Coaches Rising Summit, a month-long online seminar featuring many lumiaries in the coaching field including Otto Scharmer, Jennifer Garvey Berger, Richard Strozzi-Heckler, James, and others. This half-hour interview covers: Why relating to our clients as…
No One Is An Island
Coaching and Social Justice
Episode 2: Why Does Coaching Matter?
In our second episode of Stepping In, we explore the topic of coaching itself. What is it to create a safe space for a client? Why is the coach’s own self-development so important? What makes the Integral Coaching methodology effective? We dive into these and other questions with our special guest Lizzie Winn. Want a…
The Relationship Between the Enneagram and Integral Coaching
Listen to James Flaherty discuss how Integral Coaching® uses the Enneagram to support clients in expanding their ability to self-observe, thereby opening the possibility to self-correct. This interview was part of the Enneagram Global Summit 2016, a free online event which featured today’s top teachers who brought together Enneagram wisdom and experience from around the…
The Importance of the Body
The difference between achieving goals and being fulfilled
Rather than helping clients solve problems, Integral Coaches work with them to develop a new way of being: one that has them live in ways that are more effective and useful across all areas of their life. We are interested in deepening our clients’ capacity to be self-generating and self-correcting. Another way of explaining this…
The beauty of breakdown
Most of us spend our time doing everything we can to avoid breakdowns. In our culture the word itself carries an energy of panic and dread. We arm ourselves against anything or anyone that my thwart our plans or challenge our ideas of who we are. Entire lifetimes are spent busily keeping things in order…
Tell all the Truth but tell it slant—Poetry by Emily Dickinson
#1129 Emily Dickinson Tell all the Truth but tell it slant— Success in Circuit lies Too bright for our infirm Delight The Truth’s superb surprise As Lightning to the Children eased With explanation kind The Truth must dazzle gradually Or every man be blind—
Song of the Open Road (excerpt)
Poetry by Walt Whitman From this hour I ordain myself loos’d of limits and imaginary lines, Going where I list, my own master total and absolute, Listening to others, considering well what they say, Pausing, searching, receiving, contemplating, Gently, but with undeniable will, divesting myself of the holds that would hold me. I inhale great…
London Calling
Justin Wise, NVW faculty member and founder of thirdspace coaching, was instrumental in establishing the instruction of our coaching methodology in London in 2010. Upon the graduation of our most recent cohort of students, we asked Justin about his experience leading the course. Q: Having just completed this most recent class’s certification, what are your…
Movement of Integral Coaching in Asia
We recently asked senior faculty member Sarita Chawla about what moves her to help bring Integral Coaching to her native continent. Q: What about Asia calls to you as both a human being and a NVW faculty member? Sarita: At a personal level, hailing from Asia, I have always had a burning desire to bring…