Everything I write about here is, in a very direct way, connected with one of my great loves – supporting the enduring growth and development of people.
Growth in this case means something more ambitious than getting happier, or getting what we want. Instead it’s being able to ever more skilfully turn towards the suffering and difficulty in the world with both creativity and compassion, and contribute to reducing it.
And there is so much difficulty we face. Some of it is reflected in the large scale issues that we see on the news, but much of it is of a more ordinary, close-in, prosaic kind – in our workplaces and in our homes.
Wouldn’t it be wonderful to be someone who could make a contribution to all that, and find meaning and fulfilment in doing so?
That’s what we’ll be studying and practising together on the two-day Coaching to Excellence course in London on October 1-2. Teaching these programmes (usually to a small group of between 8 and 14 people) is one of my greatest joys.
Coaching to Excellence is a chance to step in to the theory and practice of integral development coaching, and for anyone interested in becoming even more skilful as a coach it’s the doorway into the Professional Coaching Course I teach that begins in November.
Drop me a line if you’d like to know more or, if you’ve heard enough already, you’re welcome to sign up here to join us.
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On living and working 
Justin, This post is refreshingly honest. We might feel overwhelmed with the knowledge that no one can change the world singlehandedly but we can change our personal spaces, our families and if not our workplaces, the part we play in those workplaces. It all must start within each of us. It’s like the old Coke commercial without the sugar. “I’d like to teach the world to sing in perfect harmony…”
Delighted to be joining you next month at the workshop. Continued success to you.
Thank you Deborah
Justin