A rare opportunity to spend 2 days with Sir John Whitmore & Niran Jiang in deep learning and dialogue

For experienced coaches wanting to take their coaching to a higher level

Dates: 26 & 27 March, 2009 - Sydney

Background to Transpersonal Coaching

The transpersonal recognizes and works with our yearning, ingrained in the human psyche, for something beyond the personal, beyond the material and the everyday. John and IHE 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 just making a profit. This was less urgent when we were more focused 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 secularization 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. Coaching tends to be viewed in the business world as an action-oriented way of addressing problems. Trying to fix things can be a dispiriting and energy draining approach for people. Put simply, if we focus on problems, then we will get more of them. If we look for where the positive energy is, the vitality, the spirit, and explore and build on it, then this is what will grow within an individual or within a company.

A range of transpersonal tools and techniques are invaluable in helping people to reach the higher levels of performance, to fulfill 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 Master Class

No doubt some of you will know something about the transpersonal, but John will start the course by briefly running over the history and evolution of transpersonal psychology and its inevitable expression within coaching as coaching matures.

He will then use a series of group exercises to illustrate and provide an experience of the most frequently used transpersonal models in coaching. After each one you will have the opportunity to debrief and address the questions that may have arisen.

John will also give demonstrations of individual coaching using one or more transpersonal techniques. We will then hold a discussion about the benefits and any pitfalls that some of you might want reassurance about.

The course will conclude by introducing the next level of coaching beyond the transpersonal known as Integral. While closely related, it explores in more depth the stages of human evolution from an individual and a collective perspective. This is where we all will have to get to very quickly if we are to re-establish a sustainable business model that also supports critical social and environmental issues that face our world today.

The course is experiential and filled with conversation and dialogue to create deep learning. It is limited to 25 participants

About the presenter

Rated as the number one Business coach by the Independent Newspaper and as having had the most impact on the coaching profession by the UK Association of Coaching, Sir John is a pre-eminent thinker in leadership and organisational change. He was a motor racing champion in his 20’s before retiring to run a large agribusiness, a product design company and a Ford Main Dealership.

In 1968 he gave up businesses to study psychology in the USA, before returning to England to set up a tennis school and a ski school in the Alps licensed by Timothy Gallwey of the Inner Game. Together with other high profile achievers, he formed Performance Consultants, which has been highly influential in introducing new approaches to coaching and business training, and he remains a senior partner today. Sir John has personally trained some of the leading organisations in the world, such as Deloitte, PricewaterhouseCoopers, Barclays, Lloyds, Rolls Royce, British Airways, Novo Nordisk and Roche.

He has produced and directed a feature film, performed in many guises on radio and TV and on conference platforms. He organised leading edge conferences and is the creator of the Be the Change movement. He has written five books on sports, leadership, and coaching, of which Coaching for Performance is the best known having sold a quarter of a million copies in 17 languages.

Who should attend

Coaches with experience in coaching executives and leaders of organisations.
Internal organisational coaches and change consultants

Attendance Fees (inc GST)

$2,750

Venue

TBC

This workshop is a Catalyst post conference workshop. To register, please follow the link and select the workshop option on the Catalyst booking form. You don’t need to attend the whole conference and can select the workshop only.