During the Calling Our Circle online gathering of Integral Coaches™ a few months ago, East African-based Integral Master Coaches™ Christine Guchu and Sarah Forde shared the insights they’ve gained from creating and leading the Beyond Your Edge personal development program for young African leaders.

In this 4-minute audio clip, Sarah describes the motivation behind Beyond Your Edge and the impacts of the program so far. Christine then dives a little bit deeper into how the program is structured and why they felt it was important to offer their participants a balance of group coaching and individual coaching. 

We are so grateful for the care, ingenuity, and efforts of Christine, Sarah, and all the African-based Integral Coaches™ involved with Beyond Your Edge in their application of the Integral Coaching® Method to support young African leaders. 

Click here to learn more about Beyond Your Edge: https://beyondyouredge.or.ke/

Christine Guchu and Sarah Forde - Coaching Young African Leaders

Integral Coaches™ are able to do incredible things with their training. Attending to the development, hopes, and dreams of others is a way of making the world a better place. 

In order to be able to do this though, we need to be able to be with what is, no matter how imperfect we feel it might be. Whether it’s the state of the world, the state of the person in front of you, or your own state, lasting change requires an acknowledgement of what is. Being able to do this then opens the door to discovering an answer to the question, ‘given what is, what now?’

One way we build this capacity to acknowledge and be with what is at Integral Coaching Canada is through mindfulness. Our classes and events often begin with a guided meditation to drop us in to a direct experience of what is right there in the moment, so we can move, act, and learn from there. 

At the beginning of a panel on Integral Coaching® and social activism at the recent ICC Conference & Retreat, ICC Senior Faculty member Steve Beckett took participants through this guided meditation to connect with their Inner Activist. Try it; see if you can touch into the not ok-ness of the world that cries out to you, and your unique sense of how you would like to make a difference.

Your Inner Activist

The Invitation

When it comes to our interactions with others, one of the hardest skills to learn is how to pause and take a breath before reacting to someone saying or doing something that triggers us. In this short interview clip, ICC Observer Faculty Member, Integral Master Coach™, and Certified School Counsellor Micheline Green shares a step-by-step approach for gradually learning to interrupt our reactivity.

Micheline Green - Interrupting Reactivity

A heartfelt and wide-ranging interview ICC Co-Founder, Joanne Hunt, did with renowned teacher and facilitator Diane Musho Hamilton on the Future of Love. Joanne shares deep insights ranging from how our Integral Coaching® Method is uniquely designed to maximize the possibilities of loving action in many aspects of life, to what is essential to maintain loving relationships as we change and grow.

The Future Of Love

Giving & Recieving Translations

In this brief interview clip from our 2016 ICC Resilience and Reach summit, ICC Co-Founder, Joanne Hunt, shares how her definition of resilience has changed over time to better reflect the kind of resilience called for by today’s accelerated complexity and pace. Learning to meeting each moment as it arises can allow us to more dynamically meet the inevitable ups and downs of our lives, even when they come at us rapidly.

Joanne Hunt - Definitions Of Resilience

3 - Dynamic Prototyping

Many people working within organizations often speak about the need for ongoing enhancements to the culture, systems, policies, development, and/or leadership support. But what does it take to actually create and carry out an initiative that will make these organizational changes possible?

ICC Teacher and Director of Faculty Development, Susan Loree, brings immense experience and success developing multiple initiatives for adult learning, coaching, and leadership development within organizations. In these two audio clips from our Resilience and Reach Summit, Susan shares the importance of speaking to the concrete contributions coaching can make to the objectives of an organization. She also shares some ways the effectiveness of a coaching initiative can be measured in order to best assess and present the initiative’s value to the organization.

Susan Loree - Organizational Priorities

Susan Loree - Measuring Effectiveness

Integral Coaching Canada is recognized as having one of the most comprehensive and rigorous integral coach training programs in the world.


3 - Dynamic Prototyping

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