Hollyhock Presenter & Guest Blogs
Presenter's Blogs · 21st July 2009
Judith Ansara
Join Judith Ansara at Hollyhock for Transformational Coaches Training August 9th-14th.
One of the greatest gifts you can offer others is to support them in creating lives in alignment with their talents, vision and values.
Transformational coaching integrates spiritual awareness, emotional intelligence and effective action in a simple yet profound approach to change. In this intensive experiential learning laboratory, you will make shifts in your personal effectiveness and gain skills to help others create both the inner states and outer results they desire.
We will work with a variety of skills to help you support others in creating awareness and lasting change. Fundamental to our approach is that change in the outer world happens most effectively from the inside out - from awareness, energy and choice.
Transformational coaching theory and model
We will explore a model and understanding of how change happens, the different points of intervention and the best strategies/skills at each stage.
Purpose and vision
As human beings we are all hungry for a felt sense of purpose and a vision for our lives. Our life force gets deadened when we are focused on fixing what’s wrong. Instead we build from a foundation of what works, cultivating our creative energy, joy and positive vision. We build on our innate gifts and skills in concert with our purpose and what we love. We ask the questions, What am I dedicated to? What do I love? What is mine to do? As we connect with our purpose we are infused with energy, direction and satisfaction.
Presence, deep listening & compassion
These skills are foundational and rarely practiced consistently enough. We cultivate self -compassion which then fosters compassion for others. To do this we welcome everything that arises – our humanity in all its guises, into the embrace of compassion.
As we drop into full and compassionate presence in ourselves, we are naturally able to invite our clients to do this as well. The quality of presence and listening we are able to offer invites them to find their own understanding, and to make inner shifts and outer changes for which they feel ownership and commitment.
Alignment coaching
Much suffering, unproductive activity and staying stuck in old, limiting patterns arises because of conflicting needs, beliefs and feelings. This powerful coaching tool helps clients move through these inner conflicts and ambivalences in a very efficient way.
Apparent obstacles to desired outcomes, seem to fall away as purpose, intention and energy move into alignment.
Dissolving limited beliefs and identity
Our sense of identity, ego and who we think we are, is generated through the interplay of personal history, beliefs, mental and emotional conditioning and the circumstances of our lives. But we are not that. Spiritual traditions around the world understand that these concepts and the feelings that arise with them, are the root cause of suffering. As we learn to step out of the story and our identification with it, true joy and freedom naturally arise.
Radical self responsibility
We waste huge amounts of our life force and precious time focusing on how other people or circumstances outside of our control are not providing what we want and need. We learn to resource ourselves as adults rather than as frustrated children and claim responsibility for our lives and our own responses to the circumstances we are presented with. This work is energizing and empowering.
Accessing inner wisdom
There is ultimately no authority outside of your self. As we learn to quiet our minds, dropping into the spaciousness beneath the chatter of competing voices inside our heads, we can learn to tap into an ever-present river of wisdom that is available to each of us. In this way we deepen our capacity to guide our own choices, our own lives.
The balance of working from the emerging present with goals and outcomes
We source each session in the present moment. The content that is wanting attention will always arise if we allow it. From this perspective we don’t have to plan or direct the content of the session. At the same time, specific goals and desired outcomes are also welcome. This approach fosters a marriage of the archetypal masculine which is about intention, focus, form, doing, creation; and the archetypal feminine which embraces receptivity, being, flow, feeling, relationship and receptivity. Our approach is to bring goals and dreams to consciousness, articulating them and inviting them to develop. We keep looking at the next available step in the context of our larger goals. We keep tracking our successes rather than focusing on our failures or limitations.
One of the greatest gifts you can offer others is to support them in creating lives in alignment with their talents, vision and values.
Transformational coaching integrates spiritual awareness, emotional intelligence and effective action in a simple yet profound approach to change. In this intensive experiential learning laboratory, you will make shifts in your personal effectiveness and gain skills to help others create both the inner states and outer results they desire.
We will work with a variety of skills to help you support others in creating awareness and lasting change. Fundamental to our approach is that change in the outer world happens most effectively from the inside out - from awareness, energy and choice.
Transformational coaching theory and model
We will explore a model and understanding of how change happens, the different points of intervention and the best strategies/skills at each stage.
Purpose and vision
As human beings we are all hungry for a felt sense of purpose and a vision for our lives. Our life force gets deadened when we are focused on fixing what’s wrong. Instead we build from a foundation of what works, cultivating our creative energy, joy and positive vision. We build on our innate gifts and skills in concert with our purpose and what we love. We ask the questions, What am I dedicated to? What do I love? What is mine to do? As we connect with our purpose we are infused with energy, direction and satisfaction.
Presence, deep listening & compassion
These skills are foundational and rarely practiced consistently enough. We cultivate self -compassion which then fosters compassion for others. To do this we welcome everything that arises – our humanity in all its guises, into the embrace of compassion.
As we drop into full and compassionate presence in ourselves, we are naturally able to invite our clients to do this as well. The quality of presence and listening we are able to offer invites them to find their own understanding, and to make inner shifts and outer changes for which they feel ownership and commitment.
Alignment coaching
Much suffering, unproductive activity and staying stuck in old, limiting patterns arises because of conflicting needs, beliefs and feelings. This powerful coaching tool helps clients move through these inner conflicts and ambivalences in a very efficient way.
Apparent obstacles to desired outcomes, seem to fall away as purpose, intention and energy move into alignment.
Dissolving limited beliefs and identity
Our sense of identity, ego and who we think we are, is generated through the interplay of personal history, beliefs, mental and emotional conditioning and the circumstances of our lives. But we are not that. Spiritual traditions around the world understand that these concepts and the feelings that arise with them, are the root cause of suffering. As we learn to step out of the story and our identification with it, true joy and freedom naturally arise.
Radical self responsibility
We waste huge amounts of our life force and precious time focusing on how other people or circumstances outside of our control are not providing what we want and need. We learn to resource ourselves as adults rather than as frustrated children and claim responsibility for our lives and our own responses to the circumstances we are presented with. This work is energizing and empowering.
Accessing inner wisdom
There is ultimately no authority outside of your self. As we learn to quiet our minds, dropping into the spaciousness beneath the chatter of competing voices inside our heads, we can learn to tap into an ever-present river of wisdom that is available to each of us. In this way we deepen our capacity to guide our own choices, our own lives.
The balance of working from the emerging present with goals and outcomes
We source each session in the present moment. The content that is wanting attention will always arise if we allow it. From this perspective we don’t have to plan or direct the content of the session. At the same time, specific goals and desired outcomes are also welcome. This approach fosters a marriage of the archetypal masculine which is about intention, focus, form, doing, creation; and the archetypal feminine which embraces receptivity, being, flow, feeling, relationship and receptivity. Our approach is to bring goals and dreams to consciousness, articulating them and inviting them to develop. We keep looking at the next available step in the context of our larger goals. We keep tracking our successes rather than focusing on our failures or limitations.