In this conversation with Paul Lawrence and Suzi Skinner we dive into their new book, The Wise Leader, and explore how coaching can foster wise leaders, the heart of reflective learning, how effective leaders think differently, multiplicity theory and self-transcendence, power dynamics and connectivity, and the art of dialogue. Dr Paul Lawrence is a consultant, executive coach, facilitator, writer and researcher. His primary interest lies in helping organizations effect change, building holistic...
Sep 18, 2024•1 hr 24 min•Ep. 218
In this conversation with senior leadership strategist Amy Elizabeth Fox we explore the power and practice of opening to a wider field of love, harnessing love as a transformational tool, three stages of practitioner development and the key shift for organizations of the future. Amy Elizabeth Fox is a senior leadership strategist with experience consulting to senior leadership on issues related to human capital, organizational health and leadership development. She is the Chief Executive Officer...
Sep 10, 2024•52 min•Ep. 217
In this conversation with Nicholas Janni we explore the emergent edge of coaching, what it means to be awake, helping leaders transform their approach to problem-solving, being with not knowing and coaching from attunement. Nicholas Janni has spent 30 years researching ‘the zone’ of peak performance and studying multiple mind/body disciplines. Over the last 15 years he has gained an international reputation for his transformational coaching and leadership development seminars. He works with CEO’...
Aug 31, 2024•1 hr 18 min•Ep. 216
In this episode we speak with Adrian Wagner about his research using Dave Snowden’s Sensemaker tool with Thomas Huebl’s collective trauma work, the resonances between Dave and Thomas’ work, the intelligence of unprocessed trauma, enabling versus governing constraints, and further questions for Dave and Thomas. Adrian Wagner is a researcher at the Pocket Project and a coach for organizational transformation at Complexity Partners. His career has spanned the roles of teacher, researcher, coach and...
Aug 26, 2024•1 hr 3 min•Ep. 215
In this second part of our conversation with Shai Tubali we dive into his Expansion Methodology and explore how to work with trauma through expansion, the power of “positive traumas”, moving from mind to consciousness and embracing our humanity. Shai Tubali is an international author, thinker and speaker. He is a leading authority in the field of self-development and self-empowerment and has developed several meditation-based therapeutic methods. In his writings and teachings, he skilfully combi...
Aug 16, 2024•1 hr 16 min•Ep. 214
In this conversation with Shai Tubali we explore accessing our limitless nature, understanding selfhood and transformation, the intelligence of the chakra system and working with trauma. Shai Tubali is an international author, thinker and speaker. He is a leading authority in the field of self-development and self-empowerment and has developed several meditation-based therapeutic methods. In his writings and teachings, he skilfully combines psychology, philosophy, yogic traditions and Eastern th...
Aug 08, 2024•1 hr 19 min•Ep. 213
In this conversation with Ralf Marzen we explore the intersection between awakening and trauma healing, how we move through stages and states of awakening and trauma release, the bi-directionality of awakening, fostering wellbeing, and residing in the heart of being. Ralf Marzen is a clinical psychologist and trauma therapist with over 20 years of experience working with individuals and groups. He is the founder of Embodied Trauma Healing and teaches workshops and seminars internationally. He is...
Aug 01, 2024•1 hr 12 min
In this conversation with Natasja Pelgrom we explore the role of plant medicine in this time of cultural transition, shifting to the WE perspective, creating sacred spaces, working with grounded spirituality and the relationship between authenticity and insight. Natasja Pelgrom is the founder of Awaken The Medicine Within, running retreats and programs supporting people with psycho-spiritual approaches and has held training, assisting, and facilitation roles in over 800 psychedelic ceremonies. N...
Jul 25, 2024•1 hr 16 min•Ep. 211
In this conversation with Patrick Connor we explore living in the awareness of the magic of reality, the two key pillars of this process and some of the main features of the path of awakening to a conscious, enchanted life. Patrick Connor is a spiritual teacher, healer, entrepreneur, yogi, educator, and guide to leaders and groups. He has become a catalyst and guide for the fullest awakening of the unlimited and untapped Intelligence that lies latent within all human beings by the most direct me...
Jul 16, 2024•1 hr 23 min•Ep. 210
In this short episode, Joel speaks about the approach of master coach Steve March, the paradigm behind his coaching and the impact his work has had on Joel. Steve March is a senior faculty member of New Ventures West, and founder of the Aletheia school of integral development. He specializes in coaching leaders stepping into new and/or expanded roles and leaders who are burned out (or on the way to becoming burned out). He brings a deep and rich background of sixteen years working in the field o...
Jul 10, 2024•33 min•Ep. 208
In this conversation with David Drake we explore the distinction between mastery and maturity, between having more knowledge and fostering the ability to be deeply present and in service to the moment and the person in front of you. 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 better meet the challenges of our time. He pioneered the field of Narrative Coac...
Jul 09, 2024•1 hr 14 min•Ep. 208
In this conversation with Dr Paul Lawrence we dive into the complexities of team coaching, common dilemmas in team coaching, stage perspectives, contracting and the 4 P’s model. Paul Lawrence is a coach, facilitator, writer, and researcher. His primary interest lies in helping organisations effect change, building holistic solutions, integrating change efforts with other OD interventions such as coaching and leadership development. Paul is an Honorary Research Associate with Oxford Brookes Unive...
Jun 26, 2024•1 hr 17 min•Ep. 207
In this conversation with David Whyte we explore the breadth and depth of conversational leadership through the lens of Dante’s inferno and the soul-shaping that happens through life’s challenges. David Whyte is a poet and philosopher and an associate fellow at Saïd Business School at the University of Oxford. He is the author of The Heart Aroused: Poetry and the Preservation of the Soul in Corporate America and Consolations: The Solace, Nourishment and Underlying Meaning of Everyday Words, and ...
Jun 19, 2024•57 min•Ep. 206
In this conversation with Bob Anderson we explore the power of intuition and how it can guide our lives and our leadership, tuning into the field of information, becoming a vessel, leading with energetic awareness and the devotional gateway to non-dual experience. Bob Anderson is the founder, Chairman and Chief Development Officer of The Leadership Circle and the Full Circle Group. Over the past 35 years, Bob has dedicated his career to exploring the intersections between leadership and mastery,...
Jun 12, 2024•1 hr 20 min•Ep. 210
In this third episode of our AI & Coaching Series we speak with Dr. Nicky Terblanche about the potential of AI coaching for the Global South, moving beyond chatbots, a stratified approach to coaching, ethical concerns with generative AI and upleveling the coaching industry. Dr. Nicky Terblanche is a senior lecturer and research supervisor on the MBA, MPhil Coaching and PhD programmes at the University of Stellenbosch Business School (USB), South Africa. His academic interests include both le...
Jun 05, 2024•1 hr 16 min•Ep. 204
In this conversation with Meg Price we explore how AI coaching platforms like Noa Coach are revolutionizing the coaching industry, how we are moving towards a blend of AI and human coaching, the dangers of AI relationships and platform ethics, the impact of AI on human relationships and how we can update our mindsets around AI coaching. Meg Price has over 30 years in the fields of HR, L&D, executive coaching, and consulting working with large and medium multinationals to support all aspects ...
May 29, 2024•1 hr 10 min•Ep. 203
In this conversation with Valerie Pisano we explore the fast-evolving world of AI, the practical and ethical dilemmas it raises and its implications for coaching. Valerie Pisano is President and CEO of Mila – Quebec Artificial Intelligence Institute. Founded by Professor Yoshua Bengio, Mila is recognized as a global leader in scientific advances that inspires innovation and the development of AI for the benefit of all. Valerie has 20 years of experience in leadership, strategy and transformation...
May 22, 2024•1 hr 14 min•Ep. 202
In this conversation with Elizabeth Oldfield we explore the role Christian values and practice can play in helping us move more gracefully through these times of divisiveness and polarization, and how to build spiritual core strength and transformation through community. Elizabeth Oldfield is an experienced leader, writer, consultant and podcast host with a passion for intelligent public engagement on issues of reconciliation, identity, and healing our common life. She is currently working with ...
May 15, 2024•1 hr 2 min•Ep. 201
In this short episode of the podcast, host Joel Monk reflects on two Substack articles by Peter Limberg that critique the coaching industry, and opens the conversation around what it means to be a coach as the occupation evolves in our fast-changing times.
May 09, 2024•11 min
In this very special conversation with Alexander Love we speak about the transformative experience of his father’s murder and how it shaped his life and his teachings, the process of restorative justice that Alexander participated in, seeing the virtue in the “other” and how turning towards our pain and acknowledging the unbroken dimension of being is the prerequisite for forgiveness. Alexander Love, M.Ac , PCC, NCC, is a renowned teacher, acupuncturist and coach. He is on faculty at the Newfiel...
May 01, 2024•1 hr 21 min•Ep. 199
In this conversation with Vivian Dittmar we explore the conscious release process, the relationship between emotional work and transpersonal self, how emotional release happens, transpersonal ways of knowing, and midwifing an evolutionary crisis. Vivian Dittmar is an author, wisdom teacher and founder of the Be the Change Foundation. Born in Germany, Vivian spent her childhood and youth on three continents, immersed in very diverse cultural and socio-economic contexts. This gives her a unique pe...
Apr 24, 2024•1 hr 13 min•Ep. 198
In this conversation with Bonnitta Roy we explore the mentality of crisis, the ledger function of the mind, our cultural habit of categorizing by splitting, the shift to “lyric culture”, the art of disclosure and abstraction and wholeness. 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 consciousness studi...
Apr 16, 2024•1 hr 23 min•Ep. 197
In this conversation with coach and consultant Chris Alder we explore the concept of practice, how we create practices that are developmentally intelligent, working with metaphor, integration and somatic development, hot and cold zone practices and role modelling for our clients. Chris Alder is a partner at Evolution and has been working globally with executives and senior leaders for the past 12 years across a whole wide range of industries. He is passionate about helping leaders move beyond th...
Apr 11, 2024•1 hr 18 min•Ep. 196
In this conversation with Dr. Robert Biswas-Diener we explore how we evaluate and evolve our coaching, the art of positive provocation, challenging coaching culture, owning our sovereignty in our coaching styles and the role of self-reflection and supervision. Dr. Robert Biswas-Diener is widely known as the “Indiana Jones of Positive Psychology” because his research has taken him to such far-flung places as Greenland, India, Kenya, and Israel. He is a leading authority on strengths, culture, cou...
Apr 02, 2024•1 hr 9 min•Ep. 195
In this conversation with spiritual teacher Thomas Huebl we explore the transformational containers we create with our clients, the three core pillars of the wisdom traditions, attuning to our clients, the individuation loop, and working from our leading edge. Thomas Hübl is a renowned teacher, author, and international facilitator whose lifelong work integrates the core insights of the great wisdom traditions and mysticism with the discoveries of science. Since 2004, he has taught and facilitat...
Mar 20, 2024•1 hr 20 min
In this conversation with Yannick Jacob we explore positive psychology and existentialism, prioritizing presence over process, phenomenological inquiry in coaching, integrating an existential approach and the limits and boundaries of coaching. Yannick Jacob is an Existential Coach (MA), Positive Psychologist (MSc), Coach Trainer & Supervisor (DIP) and Mediator (SPCP Dispute Resolution). He is the Program Director of the Accredited Certificate in Integrative Coaching at the School of Positive...
Mar 14, 2024•1 hr 22 min
In this conversation with psychiatrist and author Dan Siegel we dive into the concept of self, exploring the lie of the solo self, other constructs of selfhood, psychological adaptations for seeking wholeness, verb versus noun-like personality and the center of belonging. Daniel J. Siegel, M.D., is an internationally acclaimed author, award-winning educator, and child psychiatrist. He is currently a clinical professor of psychiatry at the UCLA School of Medicine where he also serves as a co-inve...
Mar 08, 2024•1 hr 3 min
In this conversation with Dana Carman and Joel Yanowitz we explore the methodology of Wayfinding in which leaders encounter the mirror of nature, the power of threshold and ritual, nature as facilitator, and translating and integrating insights. 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...
Mar 01, 2024•1 hr 23 min•Ep. 191
In this conversation with Saniel Bonder and Linda Groves Bonder we explore the spirit/matter split, an integrative approach to spiritual inquiry, inner polarization, the core/heart wound, “second birth awakening” and the breadth of experience post awakening. Saniel Bonder is the co-founder of the Human Sun HEART Work. He has devoted his adult life first to a 20+ year spiritual quest and then to "democratizing enlightenment" by transmitting and teaching this work for more than three decades. As a...
Mar 01, 2024•1 hr 24 min
In this conversation with choreographer and performer Arawana Hayashi we explore the dynamic transformational possibilities of social presencing theater; bringing experience into expression, moving as a social body, harnessing social presence and speaking in shapes. Arawana Hayashi’s pioneering work as a choreographer, performer and educator is deeply sourced in collaborative improvisation. She currently heads the creation of Social Presencing Theater (SPT) for the Presencing Institute. Working ...
Mar 01, 2024•1 hr 11 min
