Group Coaching
Human beings have evolved to live and work cooperatively and interdependently within the context of community. If people feel isolated, they will be in a state of stress. In a state of stress people are limited in their capacity to respond creatively. They are primed to react automatically and defensively instead. Stephen porges explains the harmful impact on people when the environment does not support their body’s hard-wired evolutionary needs in his polyvagal theory. Stress closes people down and is the leading cause of dis-ease. The humanistic context of teal organisations leads to the people in them feeling a significant part of the organisation . When people feel respected and recognised they can feel safe and be fully themselves. The teal environment brings out the best in people, and as happy authentic people are far more creative and productive, the organisation as a whole flourishes. It becomes a life-enhancing positive feedback loop for all concerned.
Group Depth Leadership Coaching is a reliable and effective medium by which to transform your existing organisation. As with individual Depth Leadership Coaching each person is empowered to achieve their own personal goal for participating as well as taking a leap forward to becoming Self-led. Once leaders are Self-led they will naturally create the environment that nurtures others and they, in turn, will do the same. So instead of people being cogs in a machine they are able to bring their whole self to work.
To move your organisation through a successful metamorphosis into the new paradigm the people in key leadership roles will need to attend to and evolve their own inner system. As it is the people that make organisations possible it is the people that need to evolve. It is a process that needs to come from the context set by the Leaders. The context is primary.
By engaging in depth leadership coaching, in a group context, you and your key leaders will be able to gain the increased awareness to establish your own internal Self-led system and bring about the shift in consciousness required. Group coaching sessions will be designed to meet your desired outcome/s. My associate Kelly Houston and I will work closely with all participants to develop and deliver the coaching program. We provide group coaching for leaders within the same organisations as well individuals that would like to join with other leaders to get the benefit of working with others.
“Progress, as it is now understood, certainly cannot be stopped. Therefore, humankind’s only recourse is to enhance the quality and qualities of its members all over the world so that, by learning how to ride the technological tigers they have unleashed humans and not machines will be tomorrow’s protagonists.”
Dr Aurelio Peccei, 1984.
Meet your Depth Leadership Coaches
Ruth Cloherty
Ruth has worked in a variety of different market arenas including account management for one of the first UK business-to-business telephone marketing agencies. This is where she developed exceptional personal and communication skills. Ruth is also an inspiring presenter and has the ability to enable her audience to absorb the new information with their whole being. Being process-led she takes the group on a journey so that by the end of the group seminar/workshop each group member has achieved their own determination for participating.
Ruth has been attending to her own inner-work for over 14 years and for the last 5 years has guided and empowered her clients to achieve their desired goal and to become Self-led. She has an eclectic store of knowledge and skills and is adept at working with people in this deeply personal way and in healing the human psyche. Ruth draws on Psychology, Transactional Analysis (a holistic and systematic psychotherapy for personal growth and personal change), Internal Family Systems, Polyvagal Theory and much more. Having also worked in a variety of organisations including the NHS as a nurse she has personal experience of and insight into working in our failing systems.
Stress management and calming the body-mind is one of Ruth’s key specialisations and all group work will include experiencing some of the following: - Guided meditation, Dynamic meditation, Chakra meditations and Guided visualization where deemed appropriate. The aim is to give your body a felt experience of inner connection and the peace and joy that this brings. This is you connecting with Self. You will then have a new reference point and be motivated to strengthen that connection on a daily basis.
Kelly Houston
Kelly draws upon more than 40 years experience in the field of human dynamics. As a Psychotherapist and Psychosynthesis Coach and group facilitator she uses a systemic, psychospiritual approach that supports individuals and organisations in affirming the nature of their experience within a developmental perspective. She supports her clients to strengthen their emotional resilience and spiritual intelligence as they face obstacles and challenges. Through accessing one's core being, or Self, individuals can then align, integrate and express their ‘higher’ nature in both their personal and professional lives, creating greater clarity, joy and meaning.
Kelly has had the privilege of training in Psychosynthesis with Tom Yeomans, a student of Roberto Assiagioli - the founder of Psychosynthesis. Assagioli recognised the importance of the Self and the Will in determining the choices we make and the process of becoming fully aware and whole. Additionally, Kelly's training and work alongside Jack Canfield, author of The Success Principles, informs her uplifting approach. Using Canfield's success principles she assists clients in realising their unique purpose, vision and values, and how this relates to their leadership and transformation, both as an individual and in their wider areas of influence.
Kelly holds a MSc in Family Therapy, Diploma in Social Work, Coaching & NLP Certifications, and numerous & various trainings in a diverse range of fields.