Are you interested in profound leadership training, developing coaching skills or an opportunity for substantive personal development in a professional environment?

Ontological Coaching (and leadership) in Action provides a profound learning experience that will allow you to:

• Engage in a powerful, highly effective approach to coaching, capable of generating deep positive change.
• Greatly increase your own ability and capacity for masterful living and action.
• Lead authentically with greater influence and impact.
• Develop more constructive and mutually fulfilling relationships in both your personal and professional life.

“I don’t often explicitly recommend courses but this is an exception. I strongly recommend this workshop – a really reasonably priced course that focused on observer-based learning, including language, mood and embodiment of mood and how that impacts your way of being (in life and/or in the workplace) and whether that is serving you well. This course delivers significant value.
I found this course the most useful addition to my coach training that I have ever undertaken. As well as giving you skills to significantly enhance your life or executive coaching and broaden your skills as a leader and communicator – it is also an opportunity to explore your own way of being. You will learn as much about yourself as how to assist others.”
Lindy Bryant, Master Coach, Yellow Edge Pty Ltd, Canberra

Pricing

Ticket type	Available	Price	Your Discount
Super early bird	Before 11 pm 15 April 2020	$1795 (inc. GST)	$600
Early Bird	Before 11 pm 29 April 2020	$1995 (inc. GST)	$400
Standard	Any time	$2395 (inc. GST)
ACT ICF Members only discount	Use discount code ACT-ICF		$150
Review	Any time (no other discounts apply)	$610 (inc. GST)	$1785

Super early bird rate available until 15 April
Call Ian (0419550277) or Kate (0431 969 226) if you would like to discuss the potential of this workshop for you.

 

Coaching in Action is for:

• • Organisational consultants, leaders, and managers.
  • Professionals operating in highly people-focused environments.

• • Existing and aspiring coaches.

• Community and social change agents.
• Individuals interested in substantive personal development.

This workshop is a rare opportunity to access coaching and leadership training of this quality in Canberra and avoid the high cost of flights and accommodation to train elsewhere. For existing coaches, it is an opportunity to earn ICF accredited training hours to support your membership and professional development requirements.

… the depth of the workshop was excellent.  I thought it was excellent for personal growth, and for coaching and facilitating. I am a master coach with the ICF, but the ontological coaching approach seems much more integrated, and better quality. I am already applying it in my work in career coaching and in coaching middle management. What particularly resonated were the whole area of the body and the importance of not making presumptions. The depth of it was excellent.” Deborah Kinkead, Senior Manager, Telecommnications Company

Call Ian (0419 550 277) or Kate (0431 969 226) if you would like a conversation to explore further whether this workshop is for you or to register over the phone.

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 Ontological Coaching and leadership – Information evening
– Let us know if you are interested and we may be able to arrange one

A free information evening about Ontological Coaching and Leadership.

Experience ontological coaching as well as learn about ontological coaching at this hands-on introductory workshop.

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Who has attended past Canberra workshops?

Public Service: SES level executives, Directors (EL2s) and EL1s
Corporate: Middle level and senior managers
Coaches: Experienced executive coaches who have previously trained with other schools, new coaches
Ex-public service: SES and EL level staff who have taken redundancies

OCLiA provides core leadership and coaching skills that you will apply to your own situation whether you are an SES officer or an APS team leader.

Who is leading this course?

This event is being organised by a group of Canberra based Ontological Coaches and organisational consultants.  The workshop will be led jointly by Ian Higginbottom, Kate Neser or other experience Ontological Practitioners.

Alan is the founder and Director of Newfield Institute. As a world leader in ontological coaching he has written extensively on the relevance of Ontology to living, working, learning and coaching. His professional experience in education, training and consulting is extensive, having worked with multinational corporations and national organisations from Australia, New Zealand, Hong Kong, Singapore, the United States and South Africa. Alan focuses on the communication processes that build a collaborative and high-performance organisational culture. His work as a consultant, workshop leader and executive coach is solidly grounded and highly engaging.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Super early bird rate available until 15 April
Call Ian (0419550277) or Kate (0431 969 226) for information and registration

Wondering “Just what is Ontological Coaching?”

Ontological Coaching is an extraordinarily powerful methodology for effecting real change at the individual, team, and organisational level. It is highly effective because it is based on a new practical understanding of the power of language, moods, and conversations for behavioural and cultural transformation.

Learning and Change In a world of increasing complexity and uncertainty, generated by what seems like relentless and accelerating change, coping effectively and living a meaningful life have become central issues in our everyday existence. Dealing with these issues requires learning and addressing a critical question: “What learning is necessary to live and work well?”

Ontological coaches are skillful facilitators of profound learning that generates genuine transformation and more powerful and constructive ways of engaging with different aspects of life and work.

Ontology is the study of being – what it means to be human. Ontological Coaching focuses on our Way of Being, which is a dynamic interrelationship between three areas of human existence – language, emotions, and body. Way-of-Being contains our often deep-seated perceptions and attitudes and is the underlying driver of our behaviour and communication.

Coaching in all three areas of language, emotions, and body can generate profound learning, resulting in fundamental shifts, both in self-perception and perception of what is possible in personal and professional life. From an ontological perspective, deep and lasting change requires shifts in language, emotions, and body.

Application to business and organisations
Ontological Coaching has a holistic orientation that is applicable for Executive Coaching, Organisational Consulting, management and leadership. An ontological approach to coaching is based on a practical understanding of how Ways of Being impact on the quality of human behaviour, relationships and accomplishments, all of which are critical to leadership and management performance.

An organisation is seen as a network of conversations, relationships, and commitments. How well people converse and relate, and manage their commitments, has a major bearing on performance and productivity. Leadership and management effectiveness is fundamentally about conversations and relationships. Shifts in Way-of-Being, individually and collectively, underpin the enhancement of conversational and relational competence and are central to improved work practices, cultural change, and lasting organisational transformation.

(From Newfield Institute What is Ontological Coaching?)

 “It was money and time well spent. I thoroughly enjoyed it. The methodology and philosophy really resonated with me, substantiating that this is not a ‘touchy feely’ model but gets to the heart of how businesses function. I thought the assessments and assertions were really powerful.  And I loved the moods framework. I am really fired up about it, very passionate about it.” Paul Larkin, Internal Consultant, Global Oil Company

What topics are covered in the three days?

The workshop is highly interactive and experiential in orientation and includes coaching practice.

In Coaching in Action, you will learn …

• The basic framework and principles of Ontological Coaching.
• How to recognize and overcome significant obstacles that can block learning.
• How to use the power of a different understanding of language that emerged in the late twentieth century.
• How to apply a new model of listening to engage in deep listening in coaching conversations.
• How to utilize basic linguistic acts to shift restrictive ways of being, and open new possibilities for living, working and learning.
• The pivotal role of moods and emotions in coaching for deep and sustainable change.
• Why basic moods of life are a deeper form of emotional intelligence.
• How to recognize, work with and shift the ways moods and emotions impact on communication, behaviour and performance.
• The power of the body as a hidden area of learning, and how to respectfully generate body learning in coaching conversation

More benefits likely for teams and organisations:

• Enhanced attitudes
• Dramatically improved trust between team members and members of the organisation.
• Working together more effectively as a team
• More responsible teams and members of the organisation
• Greater commitment
• Stronger bonds
• The embracing of diversity
• Greater resilience

“I can use this.  The 3 days were incredibly practical and I felt myself shift from wanting to understand the philosophy to practical application.  Thank you for your honesty, warmth and humility.  I learned a lot in watching you coach others and the work you did with me today has created a significant shift.  You definitely demonstrate mastery and are masterful in the way you coach.” Roland Cox, Professional Coach

Call Ian (0419 550 277) or Kate (0431 969 226) if you would like a conversation to explore further whether this workshop is for you or to register over the phone.

Super early bird rate available until 15 April

 

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