invite CHANGE

February 18, 2010

Social Change through Coaching

Community of Coaching, Leadership Coaching, Organizational Wholeness, Human Wholeness,  |  3 comments

I often share with people that a core belief in my life is that I am always in a state of becoming and that this belief helps me invite change in my life rather than respond or habitually react. And I am thinking a lot about this right now, realizing that when asked the question, "what do I hunger for?" my answer is wholeness. Wholeness for me, my family, my community, my country and our world. This blog post is the beginning of a conversation that I hope you will join frequently. And, to supplement the writing, I will also broadcast the conversation that I am having with Garry Schleifer, Publisher, choice Magazine, (www.choice-online.com) starting next week and once per quarter throughout the year.

The ultimate paradox of modern living: feeling hurried, overwhelmed and driven while in pursuit of balance, connection, harmony, fulfillment and inclusion.  We are challenged to find answers to the questions of who am I, how do I fine my way back home to myself, what is my purpose, how can I create good in my life and in this world, how do I create inspiring relationships, career choices and community.

Discovering answers and understanding our choices for change requires change. Change to deepen our awareness, to challenge our beliefs and perspectives and to live a conscious life of driving change with intention, innate creativity and our inherent wholeness.

Amplify this paradox inside of a system -- businesses, communities, governments -- and we witness chaotic complexity. For decades we have chosen to tame complexity and chaos by command and control, striving toward predictability.  Success is elusive.  Our world, nature, is inherently chaotic.  Our traditional relationship with this paradox is backfiring, manifesting disintegration, disconnectedness, confusion and uncertainty. 

Organizations and businesses who are late to realize that doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results will become another casualty in the world of business.  Companies that open a new relationship to the paradox will achieve game changing results and become tomorrow’s innovative leaders. 

Social change has begun. The coaching approach is a powerful agent of change for individuals and organizations alike.  This social change is about culture, asking for human relatedness that spawns resilience, adaptability, acceptance of difference, unconditional curiosity, in short, wholeness.  This change holds the seed of a culture that welcomes and enables people to bring their whole selves to the table, any table and all tables of human experience.

This is a conversation to support all of us to invite change and over time I hope to provoke, engage and inspire all of us to be leaders in this social change.

  What are the benefits for you in joining this conversation?

• Identify and amplify a personal sense of wholeness
• Innovate your language for advocating wholeness in others
• Learn how to support clients to improve workplace engagement and commitment
• Contribute to generative learning about wholeness
• Foster empowering attitudes, expectations and beliefs within organizations
• Be a revolutionary champion for advancing humanity