8. Making a Space of Welcome

Hosted by Lizzie & Justin

A conversation about the promise of integral development coaching: ways to open in welcome and in loving attention to the possibilities, gifts and suffering of others; and ways to be an invitation to step ‘two steps further along the tightrope’ that our clients may have been walking, so far, alone.

This podcast is adapted from an episode of ‘Turning Towards Life’ that was recorded in response to a poem by Kate Van Akin, who had just certified as an integral development coach, written at the close of PCC Y in 2021. We hope that Kate’s words, and the conversation that arose from it - which we purposefully angled towards coaching and the PCC -  will be a support to you as you step ever deeper in over the coming months.


Where love flows through

May this be a space of welcome
A space where you are seen, unmasked
and bathed in loving attention.
Mine - and your own.
May we discover in our time together
what is peeking out from the shadows
yearning to be noticed.

May our space be big enough to hold
both the stories you tell about yourself
and the truth of your existence.

May I see beyond those stories
to the unique, wondrous beauty of your soul
and may I shine a light on your beauty
and your truth
while honouring and dignifying all parts of you.

May I stand tall in bringing you my observations and offerings
starting close in,
inviting you two steps further along the tightrope
than you may have gone alone.

May this be a space where love flows through,
and where our hearts can speak to each other
freely.

by Kate Van Akin

6. The Ten Ways: Power and Vocation

Hosted by Justin & Neena

A conversation about the fourth and fifth ways of the 10 Ways. ‘Power’ - the way of being in which our skilfulness at knowing what we want and our ability to have it happen find new expression, mostly by our becoming more realistic about how the world is and more focussed in bringing ourselves in harmony with what's bigger than us and in undoing various forms of our own 'leakage'; and ‘Vocation’, in which there’s a huge shift in consciousness and we find ourselves more and more responding to the question ‘What is life asking of me’, a way of being in which our unique gifts can have a much fuller expression in the world.

There is some pre-reading that will help you listen:
The podcast will make the most sense if you first read about ‘Power’ and ‘Vocation’ on pp13-14 and pp29-36 of the ’Models: The Ten Ways' section in the methodology notes.

5. The Ten Ways: Conversations

Hosted by Amanda & Lizzie
A conversation about the third way of the 10 Ways, the way in which the world of conversations opens up as a vast field of possibility for relationship, understanding, expression, creative imagining, and coordination of action.

There is some pre-reading that will help you listen:
The podcast will make the most sense if you first read about Conversations on p12 (an overview) and pp25-28 (a fuller description) of the ‘Models: The Ten Ways’ section in the methodology notes.

3. The Ten Ways

Hosted by Sue & Justin. 

The Ten Ways is the central developmental model of our methodology. It can help us become ever more sensitive to people’s way of being as they are now, and support us and them in imagining what might be next for them - in a way that meets them with both compassion and wisdom. 

It’s a brilliant resource for designing powerful developmental coaching programmes for our clients, and for finding distinctions that open up new ways of observing and acting.

Starting to get some understanding of this will greatly support our learning together at Session 2.

There is some pre-reading that will help you listen:
The podcast will make the most sense if you first do a bit of reading - please cast your eyes over the whole of the ’Models: The Ten Ways' section in the methodology notes, and read in depth James Flaherty’s introduction which is 4 pages of that file, pp17-21.

2. The Four Human Domains

Hosted by Lizzie and Neena, 56 mins

This podcast explores one of the central models of integral development coaching, which you’ll already have had a brief introduction to on the ‘Foundations’ course.The 4 Human Domains helps us respond to the whole of a person’s life, rather than from our own preferences or familiarity, and helps us keep seeing the person and their life as a mystery to be continually explored and wondered at rather than something to ‘work out’.

There is pre-reading to accompany this:
Please find and read pages 5 to 13 in the notes on ‘The Four Domains’, in the Methodology notes. The conversation will make most sense if you read first.

1. Narratives

This podcast explores what narratives are, and the role they can play both in a coaching programme and in life. You’ll be embarking right now on your own integral development programme, and the podcast will shed light on the different parts of that as well as supporting your future work with clients.Materials to accompany this - p6-11 of the Notes for Session 1 - on ‘The Three Panels’, which you’ll find in Thinkific.

6. The Ten Ways: Power and Vocation

Hosted by Justin & Neena

A conversation about the fourth and fifth ways of the 10 Ways. ‘Power’ - the way of being in which our skilfulness at knowing what we want and our ability to have it happen find new expression, mostly by our becoming more realistic about how the world is and more focussed in bringing ourselves in harmony with what's bigger than us and in undoing various forms of our own 'leakage'; and ‘Vocation’, in which there’s a huge shift in consciousness and we find ourselves more and more responding to the question ‘What is life asking of me’, a way of being in which our unique gifts can have a much fuller expression in the world.

There is some pre-reading that will help you listen:
The podcast will make the most sense if you first read about ‘Power’ and ‘Vocation’ on pp13-14 and pp29-36 of the ’Models: The Ten Ways' section in the methodology notes.