Tag: Integral Coaching
Harnessing the Power of Feedback in Coaching
Feedback acts as both mirror and catalyst for profound personal and professional development, and through its skillful use in the coaching space, so much transformation can occur if used in the right way, at the right time. Understanding how to effectively use feedback in coaching has become essential for coaches seeking to create lasting impact…
The Role of Integral Coaching in Leadership Development
“I am the bottleneck. Everyone comes to me with their key decisions. In order for us to mature as an organization, I know this needs to change. I am trying different techniques and they have helped but only marginally. I really need a significant shift to happen. People need to feel empowered to decide and…
The Being & Doing Dilemma
Originally Published on Feb 2, 2025 Explore the Being+Doing dilemma and discover how to balance your inner self with external expectations. Embrace a journey of self-awareness and authenticity. “We are human beings, not human doings.” “I need to stop doing and be more.” When have you said something like this? Heard someone else? I have.…
We’ve Been In Training
The Case For Discomfort
Any form of development work is an invitation to be with discomfort. Whether it is seeing a new distinction, taking up a new practice, or feeling that emotion and sensation you have been avoiding, some part of us—usually neglected or forgotten—is stretched. Development occurs through a series of stress and rest. Staying comfortable with what…
Who – How – What
Hitting Ceilings of Change “I am the bottleneck. Everyone comes to me with their key decisions. In order for us to mature as an organization, I know this needs to change. I am trying different techniques and they have helped and I recognize the need for something more. I really need a significant shift to…
The Sacred Space Between
The Point of a Question
The quest for the answer beckons the answer into becoming. What if the answer has always been the arising? This question arose within and guides my pondering today. Profound or contrived? Let’s give it some space and air to breathe before we judge it. Increasingly, I’ve been experiencing my capacity to be with the questions…
Turning Twenty Percent Into One Hundred Percent
The Edges of Coaching
Living Multi-Centered: Bringing Unity, Belonging and Equity to a Splitting World
Key Lessons About Purpose
Always Becoming You
Listening to Your Life
Walking into Vocation
Supporting High Risk Youth
Layers of Listening
Many of us spend the majority of our days in conversations of one kind or another. This is particularly true for coaches, therapists, and other practitioners who spend their time supporting others’ development. Bringing greater mindfulness to how we approach conversations with anyone—our clients, colleagues, partners, children, friends, and others—holds the potential to make these…
Making Room for Integration
This article first appeared on the Mindful Leader blog in September 2021. “Along with all the growth and healing, remember to give yourself time for integration, which is a fancy word for ‘allowing sh*t to settle.’ It looks like doing nothing. This nothing is necessary.” – Emily McDowell Has it ever happened to you? You’ve been…
Self-unification in a divided world
“In order to truly change, we have to let go of who we think we are. Early in life we had to form the ego, or the ‘little self,’ in order to protect our true self. Later in life, the way we originally protected ourselves begins to endanger the presence of our Self. What protected…
Replenishment, Starting Close In
This article was originally published on the Mindful Leader blog in August 2022 “I have nothing left.” It’s a sentiment that’s been in our shared consciousness for a long time, and recently I’ve started to hear folks actually name it. Maybe you have too. World events have taken their toll, and many of us find…