Self Actualisation
Reviewing Maslow’s work on self-actualisation helped me come to the realization that Essentials invites clients to step into a self-actualising process. There are two factors that I believe are initially involved in clients stepping into this process: a willingness to engage in the transformation process, into the possibility of stepping into a new reality; [...]
Mindfulness
Attentiveness to counter-productive thoughts, feelings, speech and actions was the focus of the work on mindfulness. Here again the literature was able to confirm for me the idea that where we place our attention is a key element in consciousness. If we are blind to our thoughts and emotions particularly, then we become an unwitting [...]
Inner Wisdom
In order to explore the concept of inner wisdom, I examined Jung’s personality structures that exist within the human psyche, in particular the ego and the Self. As I progressed with this exploration I was intrigued to discover that the idea of the ego-Self axis was highly relevant to Essentials. I discussed how, at [...]
This work began by exploring the Essentials program itself and the information that is given to the client. In the weekly distinctions or conversations, clients are given information regarding integrity, and why telling the truth, giving up excuses and setting and maintaining clear boundaries are key to this. Clients receive information about dealing with incompletions [...]
The final posts in this series draw a conclusion as to why and how the Essentials coaching programme facilitates a consciousness shift for clients who are prepared to do the work involved.
A flat, shiny, brown stone sits on the hard drive of my computer. In the early hours of this morning, as I sit reflecting on [...]
I recall when I mentored a group of Essentials students through their training that there was a phrase that I kept repeating to the students as I guided them to let go of their self doubt and efforting, to trust the Essentials process and to fall in to their place of guiding inner wisdom. “Less [...]
As the trainee coaches enter into specific Essentials coaching training, their own personal growth work is intertwined with specific skills for coaching. So, as well as learning about and practicing such skills as active listening, mirroring and asking clarifying and powerful questions with their practice clients, trainee coaches explore their own righteous positions and hidden [...]
Coaches end up being coaches in this program for many different reasons. Some enter the journey with the explicit idea of coaching in mind. Others (many) embark on a three-day personal development workshop with the FIIC and then find they are drawn to more personal growth work, and still more, and then surprisingly find themselves [...]
Since beginning training with the Ford Institute several years ago, it has slowly become very clear to me that we grow, as humans, within relationships. Being a particularly stubborn individual, I resisted this belief for many years. Fiercely independent, I thought that my growth as a human being was all about me and had little [...]
As I move through the call, reflecting, sometimes challenging and holding to account, and frequently acknowledging and supporting, I am acutely aware of the two key coaching skills that play such an integral role in opening the client to the possibility of themselves. These are the skills of listening and questioning and I’m sure that [...]
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