Tag: Spirituality
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Making Room for Integration
This article first appeared on the Mindful Leader blog in September 2021. âAlong with all the growth and healing, remember to give yourself time for integration, which is a fancy word for âallowing sh*t to settle.â It looks like doing nothing. This nothing is necessary.â –Â Emily McDowell Has it ever happened to you? Youâve been…
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The Deeper Invitation in the Story of the Empty Boat
Like the Taoist Farmer story, the story of the Empty Boat is often used by coaches to help their clients gain perspective. Hereâs a short version: A fisherman is on the water at dusk with poor visibility. He sees a boat coming right towards him and starts getting frantic and yelling for the fisherman steering…
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Balancing Ourselves Using the Six Streams of Competence
This post was originally published on the Mindful Leader blog in April 2020. In these times of massive change and disruption, many of us are looking inward to see how we can be of greater support to our communities and the world. Integral Coaching, which is a sustainable, self-generating framework for developing ourselves and others,…
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Meeting the Shadow
In Ursula Le Guinâs stunningly beautiful novel âA Wizard of Earthseaâ, the young wizard Ged unleashes a terrifying shadow into the world by mistake. Stunned by his power, he stands paralysed in shock while the shadowâs claws cut deep lines into his face before disappearing. From then on, he lives a haunted life, forever running from…
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Learning or practice: which is greater?
At the heart of Integral Coaching is the understanding that itâs in the nature of human beings to become who we are through our practices, the purposeful actions we repeat again and again. There are all kinds of grounds for this claim. The extraordinary plasticity of our nervous systems is one. The observations of the…