I attended a presentation on Integral Coaching, delivered by an important member of the coaching community in Romania. I find it useful to present some reflections on that brief workshop. Why Integral Coaching? Because – says the presenter – of two important reasons: one, dissatisfaction may occur in connection with the classic model of coaching,…
Without a systemic approach, the issue of current climate change, the so-called “global warming” remains declarative. The change of human perspective over the issue may be the starting point of the fundamental change of this situation. Satish Kumar says: “Pay attention to the project Sacred Places. River Gange is not sacred by itself. River Gange…
I was supposed to meet someone downtown, at seven p. m. … The weather was warm and the cars were crawling down the avenue in snail pace. I planned the route so that I could avoid the traffic jam, but in the end I decided I had enough time to get there by public transport….
Some considerations about happiness from a person who has studied psychology entire life. What Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi says about the state of flow is exactly what happens in a professional coaching session. The client is aiming his issues and results while the coach fully concentrates on everything that is going on along the entire process. Consequently…
One morning I woke up with a crazy craving for walnuts… That sensation of crisp astringency, mixed with oily soil, lingered in my mouth as I was taking a shower. I went to the kitchen, where I knew I had some walnuts taken last autumn from my mother’s and I carefully broke a few, so…
Gravity, multi-dimensional space, notions like field and energy, atomic physics… well, I start to shiver, since none of the notions above is too clear to me. More than that, some of them contradict each other! So, when I heard about the theory of strings, I decided to add the notion to the “hard to understand”…
Interesting! As Dean Brown says, European languages have the same origin – the Sanskrit! Coaching is a process where the linguistic aspect plays a very important role, a fundamental one. Consequently it contributes to eliminating national cultural barriers.
Procrastination is a very important issue for many of us. “Oh, I should go to the gym and do some workout… Well, I’ll do it next week, for sure!” or, “I should grab a book… I have only read magazines and the internet lately… Look, I will make some time tomorrow and go to a…
In a charming way, Sir Ken Robinson demonstrates how children’s creativity is destroyed by today’s educational system! And the system is not at all young! In order to “radically change the way we define intelligence” – as the lecturer says, coaching may be an efficient tool in the educational environment, due to its formative role.
For several days I’ve been haunted by this word: authenticity. It seems to be everywhere: I hear it when I talk to my friends, during my coaching sessions, on the Internet, I read it in a book, well, it is all over the place! Julie Hay, at the opening of the Annual Conference of the…
