Recognize
and work with your yearning
Sir
John Whitmore (seated) with course participants at a coach
training course in London.
The transpersonal recognises and works with our yearning, ingrained in the human
psyche, for something beyond the personal, beyond the material and the everyday.
This is often regarded as being in the realm of spirituality, but not necessarily
associated with any particular religion. Here's how the spiritual was defined
in a recent book on the subject
that which gives ... unique definition
... to
our humanity is our need to place our enterprises in a frame of wider meaning
and purpose. The spiritual in human beings makes us ask why we are doing what
we are going and makes us seek some fundamentally better way of doing it. It makes
us want our lives to make a difference.
(Zohar
and Marshall 2004, Spiritual Capital: Wealth We Can Live By)
Sir John Whitmore and Hetty Einzig
"a desire to find a job with more meaning is a more common cause for exit
than the pursuit of a fatter pay packet. Four out of five people say that 'making
the world a better place' through their work was very important or absolutely
essential to them."
(Robert Wuthnow, cit Reeves in Management Today
August 2006)
Performance Consultants as an organisation
are committed to the wider adoption of the transpersonal in life and work and
the area of corporate coaching. In recent years people especially in Western culture
are waking up to the transpersonal within themselves through the emerging need
to find meaning and purpose in all aspects of their lives and to work in the service
of something beyond just making a profit. This was less urgent when we were more
focussed lower down the Maslow hierarchy (on the survival, on belonging and material
success), and when religion was the preserve of the spiritual. Affluence, global
communication and the secularisation of society have now brought the transpersonal
onto many people's agenda, both personally and at work.
When coaches
are familiar with the transpersonal dimension in themselves and the methods of
addressing it in others, their capacity to help others is greatly enhanced. Even
the most pragmatic of coaching interventions, such as daily task performance,
is enhanced if the coach holds a transpersonal perspective. While we as coaches
hopefully work from the coachee's agenda, we should never forget that we provide
the container or the context for the coaching, so we do influence the process
anyway, whether we choose to or not. Being conscious of how we influence the coaching
relationship is crucial, both ethically and for maximum effectiveness.
A range of transpersonal tools and techniques are invaluable in helping people
to reach the higher levels of performance, to fulfil their potential and especially
to achieve in leadership positions. Transpersonal coaching is an empowering process
which helps clients discover the power and effectiveness of who they really are.
This core, source of our deepest values and qualities, is a well-spring of real
strength, creativity and actualisation. Operating from this core enables clients
to connect with their staff, the vision of the organisation and the global context
fully and effectively.
Transpersonal coaching is at the cutting edge
and now more than ever vitally needed by business, individuals and humanity if
we are to build a world we wish to live and work in that is mutually sustainable
and beneficial to us all.
About this
course
"I
attended the Transpersonal Coaching coaching with John and Hetty. It was
a great course, very professionally run and good fun! I would recommend it
highly."
Course Participant
Transpersonal Theory
and Skills One is a two-day introductory programme led by Sir
John Whitmore and Hetty Einzig for
experienced coaches.
In the market place today, the coach who has a breadth
& depth of knowledge and human experience can demonstrably operate above the norm.
One significant factor is the ability to apply emotionally intelligent skills.
Another is to begin to understand the fundamental dimensions of human experience,
both personal and transpersonal. This programme introduces these and other skills
to coaches who wish to develop their ability to coach at the leading edge.
Delegates will: