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In this conversation with Pat Williams we speak about the differences between a new coach, a professional coach and a master coach, the power of metaphor, the importance of non-formulaic coaching, creating transformational coaches and critiques of the industry. Dr Pat Wiliams is an author and personal development coach who has been in the industry for over four decades. He is a founding member of the ICF and an inaugural member of its Circle of Distinction, a Master Certified Coach, a Board-Cert...
In this conversation with Karim Hirani we introduce our new course The Power of Presence, why it’s relevant now, how it can empower coaches, how it works, who is on the faculty and more. Karim Hirani is Global Head of Quality and Design for BTS Coach and oversees quality, training and skill development for BTS Coach associates. As Head of Design function, Karim develops programs meet the needs of organizations globally. His thought leadership in coaching has taken the form of peer reviewed paper...
In this conversation with Veronica and Alexander Love and Lorie Dechar we explore the interplay between emergence and vision, tools for coming into greater wholeness, integral consciousness, working with “entelechy” and accessing deeper presence. Alexander Love is an acupuncturist, life coach, and craniosacral therapist. With gentleness, lightness and depth, he invites us to listen to the voice of our inner wisdom & potency and allow that to move us outward into the world and make a differen...
In this conversation with senior Leadership Strategist Amy Elizabeth Fox, CEO of Mobius Executive Leadership, we talk about some of the post-covid changes and the critical cultural steps organizations need to take to create belonging, foster psychological safety and inspire a hopeful Future. Amy also discusses the importance of having teachers in a path of spiritual development and healing and how to discern ethical and potent guides on the path. She also talks about her own inner life as a prac...
In this conversation with coach and facilitator Lucille Greeff we explore how the global south can inform how the global north holds coaching, adult development theory, organizational development work, how “heat experiences” can support development, and refining the art of coaching. Lucille Greeff is a director of Aephoria and a Chartered Organisation Development (OD) practitioner, facilitator, coach, team development specialist and psychometrist. Her work focuses on personal, team and organizat...
In this conversation with Bonnitta Roy we explore Bonnitta’s key points on Dave Snowden’s views on developmental Stage Theory and metamodernism, the empirical fallacy, the nature of mind, action protocols for development and moving away from Stage Theory. Bonnitta Roy teaches insight practices for individuals who are developing meta-cognitive skills, and hosts collective insight retreats for groups interested in breaking away from limiting patterns of thought. She teaches a masters course in con...
In this conversation with coach and consultant Sam Isaacson we dive deep into the disruptive possibilities of using technology AI and AR in coaching, how they can serve humanity and what some possible dangers might be, consequences for coaches, and what skills and capacities coaches may need to focus on in a world that includes AI coaching. Sam Isaacson is an enthusiastic coach, coach supervisor, and coachtech thought leader. He's Chair of the UK Government's Coaching Professional apprenticeship...
In this conversation with consultant Jeffrey Hull we explore the science of coaching and the maturation of the field, the paradox of wisdom, regenerative paradigms, the evolution of leadership, healing and somatics, and creating a generative ontology. Jeffrey Hull, PhD, is an author, educator, and consultant with more than twenty years’ experience partnering with C-suite executives on issues of high-performance leadership, change management, organizational strategy, structure, and culture. He is...
In this conversation with Valerie Livesay, Shakiyla Smith and Dana Carman we explore the current criticisms of adult development theory and what is currently happening in the field of coaching around this topic. Dana Carman is an expert in human and organizational transformation. Since 1984 he has worked as a senior advisor, consultant and executive coach to leaders of more than 200 visionary organizations on 5 five continents. Dana has co-founded two pioneering consultancies and trained and cer...
In this conversation with Deb Dana we speak about the three organizing principles, coregulation and neuroception, flavors of nervous system regulation, working with dorsal, and nervous system regulation. BIO Deb Dana, LCSW, is a clinician, consultant, author and speaker specializing in complex trauma. Her work is focused on using the lens of Polyvagal Theory to understand and resolve the impact of trauma in our lives. She is well known for translating Polyvagal Theory into a language and applica...
In this episode, Bill Torbert addresses Dave Snowden's critiques of vertical development, tackling concerns about elitism, over-individualism, linearity, and simplistic stereotyping of action logics. He delves into the concept of unilateral versus mutual power, the importance of an inquiry-based approach over prescriptive judgments, and his "four territories of experience." The conversation culminates in a deeply personal reflection on post-cognitive consciousness, aging, and finding dignity in facing death.
In this conversation with cofounders of iConscious, Carole Griggs and Ted Strauss, we explore into the iConscious Model for accelerating human potential, unpacking the different domains and how they support growth at different developmental stages, as well as discussing how development works, the transformational setting, developmental integration and the future of AI in coaching. Carole Griggs, Ph.D. is an executive coach, leadership development consultant, international speaker, university pro...
In this conversation with CEO of the Jazz Leadership Project, Greg Thomas, we explore the process of racialization, how racialized worldviews impact development, the limits of the anti-racism movement, cultural intelligence, antagonistic cooperation and a more expansive approach to the topic of deracialization. Greg Thomas is the CEO and Co-Founder of the Jazz Leadership Project. Greg embodies the strategic vision of the company and enacts it during live workshops and for the Tune In To Leadersh...
In this conversation with Dr. Bayo Akomolafe we explore the beliefs that underlie our collective culture, the epistemology of identity, hypo-subjects, the decentralization of humans, how the world is more than story and potential in the instability of our times. Dr. Bayo Akomolafe is a philosopher, psychologist, professor and poet renowned for his unconventional views on global crises, activism, and social change. He has taught at various international universities and currently lectures at Paci...
In this conversation with author, coach and entrepreneur Neo Moreton we explore the 3 prongs of Microshift Method, how connection changes our physiology, the business model of coaching, fostering sincerity and realness and the future of coaching and tech. Neo Moreton is a business-building Brit with a fierce passion for real growth in real life. Neo is inspired by tech and consciousness in equal measures and with his vast experience of high growth tech companies, business development and M&A...
In this conversation with coach and communication expert Barbara Piper Roelofs we explore leadership challenges in a post-Covid working context, leading from common humanity, what the research says about compassion, creating client touchpoints, ritual and wellbeing, and resilience and responsibility. Barbara Piper-Roelofs is a coach and facilitator who works with both individual and corporate clients. She started her 20+ year career in Corporate Communications and later moved into Health Care Ma...
In this conversation with coach and CEO of the Moment Institute, David Drake, we explore how we can be effective, masterful coaches in the context of these times, breadth versus depth, the perception of change versus what creates change, exploring patterns, the five maturities and competence versus mastery. David B. Drake, PhD, is the founder and CEO of the Moment Institute in the San Francisco Bay Area, whose mission is to reinvent learning & development for practitioners and clients to bet...
In this conversation with executive coach Jennifer Garvey Berger we explore what coaches need in these times, Jennifer’s favorite theories, flow and presence, understanding context, biases and the action urge, and how we engage with complexity. Jennifer Garvey Berger helps individuals and teams to transform themselves and their organizations, to see bigger perspectives, to think in more creative ways, and to collaborate effectively. With her partners at Cultivating Leadership, Jennifer runs tran...
In this conversation with Alexander Love, Veronica Love & Lorie Dechar we explore emerging perspectives on adult development in the current paradigm of cultural change, various perspectives on wholeness and fragmentation, balancing different lines of inner development, reintegrating the somatic and the emergence of self. Alexander Love is an acupuncturist, life coach, and craniosacral therapist. With gentleness, lightness and depth, he invites us to listen to the voice of our inner wisdom &a...
In this conversation with executive coach Gonzalo Córdova we talk about emotional literacy in coaching, the science of emotions, how to bring emotional literacy into corporate environments, understanding emotional filters and having congruence as a coach. Gonzalo Córdova is an international facilitator, lecturer and an experienced executive coach. He has more than fifteen years of immersion in human development and is an expert at innovating and energizing leaders and has trained and coached mor...
In this conversation with coach and facilitator Forrest Wilson, we explore the unified field of coherence, accessing essence, increasing inner alignment, expanding our sensing capacities as coaches and the superorganism of humanity. Forrest Wilson is a coach and facilitator and co-founder of Light in Action, a program designed to help integrate peak experiences and assimilate a variety of healing, awareness and we-space capacities. Forrest is passionate about human potential, transformational he...
In this conversation with embodiment coach Philip Shepherd we explore the concept of wholeness as an embodied practice, attuning to the world through embodied sensitivities, the intelligence of the pelvic floor, five qualities of being and the gateway of surrender. Philip Shepherd is an international authority on embodiment. He travels the world teaching The Embodied Present Process™ (TEPP), a unique set of practices he developed for getting us out of our heads and reconnected with the profound ...
In this conversation with coach Alexander Love, we talk about how non-Anglo paradigms can influence the world of coaching, diving deep into the 5 primordial gestures, the wisdom of shadow, qualities of being and how we can work skillfully with parts. Alexander Love, M.Ac, PCC, NCC, is a renowned teacher, acupuncturist and coach. He is on faculty at the Newfield Network, a leading coach training organization. Alexander is a developmental coach who specializes in transformational shadow work. He w...
In this conversation on becoming a trauma-sensitive coach from the Coaches Rising Summit 2022, Bebe Hansen, Steven Hoskinson and Kim Barta share their thoughts on the differences between coaching and therapy, how both disciplines have and continue to evolve, and how to integrate a trauma-sensitive approach into your coaching. Steven Hoskinson is the Founder, CEO and CCO (Chief Compassion Officer) of Organic Intelligence® (OI) and the nonprofit Organic Intelligence Outreach Institute. OI’s Human ...
Life is a series of ongoing losses; of people, places, and parts of self, and yet grief - the emotion we can experience as a result of loss - is rarely mentioned in coaching training. In this conversation with integral coach Dina Bell-Laroche we explore grief and how to encounter it with our clients, the social perception of grief and grieving, the identity transformation catalyzed by loss, building safety and self-soothing, and the language of continued bonds. Dina Bell-Laroche, BJ, MA, is an I...
The West is in a big time of transition, which necessarily includes our worldview as a collective. In this conversation with Four Arrows (Wahinkpe Topa) aka Dr. Don Trent Jacobs, we talk about the kinship or indigenous worldview in contrast to the dominant worldview, the impact of a binary vs a non-binary worldview, trance learning, and weaving indigenous wisdom into coaching. Four Arrows (Wahinkpe Topa) aka Dr. Don Trent Jacobs is faculty in the School of Leadership Studies at Fielding Graduate...
In many places in the US, psilocybin is being legalized and a new industry is booming - with good reason; research suggests psychedelics can have a highly beneficial impact on our psyches. In this conversation with Paul F. Austin, founder of The Third Wave, we explore the therapeutic use of psychedelics and how it can be merged with coaching to increase the potency of our work, the different ways of working with psychedelics, the neurological and emotional changes stimulated, and the importance ...
Circling is a modality that exists somewhere on the spectrum between meditation and coaching and highlights the healing power of deep connection. In this conversation with Coach and Circling Europe co-founder Sean Wilkinson we explore the relational meditation tool of Circling, accessing a place of deep presence and aliveness with clients, the role of coaching, potential pitfalls when including our own experience in the connection and navigating cross-paradigmatic coaching. Sean Wilkinson is a C...
Start-up founders are a powerful force for change in a time when radical innovation is crucial, but they inhabit a particularly fast-paced and highly demanding work environment. How can we best support them? In this conversation with Executive Coach Gaston Schmitz we dive into the particular challenges faced by Asian founders and the coaching approaches that support their growth, the vibration of leadership, how coaches can train their vibrational perception, and the foundations of intuitive coa...
Lately various voices have been raised in critique of adult development models, and the way coaches implement them in their work with clients. In this conversation with management consultant and researcher Dave Snowden we explore some of the fundamental issues with models of adult development, how more fluid stories of self can be more constructive in facilitating change and Dave’s complexity science-based approach to coaching. Dave Snowden is a management consultant and researcher in the field ...
