Recognize
and work with your yearning
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 Éto make a difference.
(Zohar
and Marshall 2004, Spiritual Capital: Wealth We Can Live By)
By
Sir John Whitmore and Hetty Einzig
We personally and 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 Advanced
Skills course
Transpersonal Theory and Skills
Two is a two-day advanced programme led by Sir
John Whitmore
and Hetty
Einzig
for experienced coaches.
Delegates
will: