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Coaching Across Language, Gender and Race Boundaries: Lessons from South Africa for Europe

By CRAIG O'FLAHERTY Introduction Stone Lighthouse - Craig O'Flaherty © DNA research is causing us to look at history in new ways. From its very beginning Europe has been a seen as a ‘melting pot’. It’s a history that up to now, has been believed to be founded on waves of migration, invasion and colonisation from its earliest times. This pattern started with groups of hunter-gatherers from Africa as early as 60 000 years ago and continued as separate groups of farmers and herders from the Middle East made their way north. Recent theorists are contesting this and suggesting [...]

Coaching Across Language, Gender and Race Boundaries: Lessons from South Africa for Europe2018-04-05T17:55:12+02:00

Poem: Solitude by Craig O’Flaherty

Solitude by CRAIG O'FLAHERTY Breeze's gentle breath kisses the mist, letting soft light shimmer through. That instant when chaos steps back, into the shrouded haze beyond us. When the river's tongue laps the bending bank tasting wet sand, smoothing footprints away. Sometimes, we get to stand in our own sad shadows, in a solitude that holds us close. It's those moments that our hearts are waiting to envelop us, as we struggle to seek certainty. And then beauty melts in from the unpredictable, as a skyline strokes our softened eyes.

Poem: Solitude by Craig O’Flaherty2018-04-05T17:55:12+02:00

April – A Time for Connection with the Centre for Coaching – Lausanne and Geneva

The month of April will be a busy one for the Centre for Coaching, and we hope that many of you will be able to join us at one of the events we are offering.   Our first offering, open to all, is a Coaching Round Table evening, Exploring Integral Coaching. This is for anyone interested in knowing more about our approach, what it is we offer and integral coaching in general. It takes place Tuesday 19 April, at the Hotel Alpha Palmier in Lausanne from 19h to 21h, where Centre for Coaching Director, Craig O’Flaherty will lead a discussion [...]

April – A Time for Connection with the Centre for Coaching – Lausanne and Geneva2018-04-05T17:55:12+02:00

Coaching Round table – Exploring Integral Coaching

Craig O’Flaherty, Director of the Centre for Coaching, will explore the theme of Integral Coaching and will be answering participants’ questions, including: Craig O'Flaherty What makes coaching Integral? Why choose an Integral Approach? How does it lead to people becoming self-correcting and self-generating resulting in a greater sense of satisfaction, meaning and purpose? How does this bring new depth to one's leadership? What impact does this have on cross cultural collaboration? The business case for organisations – how to make coaching more affordable?  Join us for an engaging and lively discussion around Integral Coaching followed by networking [...]

Coaching Round table – Exploring Integral Coaching2018-04-05T17:55:12+02:00

Coaching the body – not just the mind

By CRAIG O'FLAHERTY One of the ways in which Integral Coaching differs from other forms of coaching is in its recognition that the body needs to be included as a focus when working with coachees who are trying to change their circumstances and lives.  We are embodied beings and so much of the latest research is confirming what we have known for centuries – that the body has a capacity to store information beyond the brain and that so much of what we consider ‘thinking’ is a process involving many parts of the body.   For that reason, to simply [...]

Coaching the body – not just the mind2018-04-05T17:55:13+02:00

Dynamiser votre leadership à travers le coaching

Votre façon de diriger ou de travailler avec des équipes vous semble incomplète? Vos équipes ou vos pairs sont-ils aussi motivés et engagés qu’ils pourraient l’être? Votre leadership a-t-il besoin d’une nouvelle profondeur? … Rejoignez-nous pour un workshop d’une journée d’action-apprentissage interactif et découvrez comment vous pouvez modifier vos conversations pour impacter vos relationnels et les résultats de votre équipe … Au cours de cet atelier expérientiel pratique d’introduction, vous apprendrez à: Améliorer la collaboration et l’engagement : au cours de projets en travaillant avec des équipes et des pairs Apprendre le pouvoir [...]

Dynamiser votre leadership à travers le coaching2018-04-05T17:55:13+02:00

Becoming a Euro-node for Integral Coaching

By DANIEL AHLERS 2015 was a busy year in so many domains. One of the areas of busyness was work done by The Centre for Coaching (CFC) team to launch Integral Coaching in Switzerland. In 2014 an Associate Coaching Course (ACC) was launched here in Switzerland by the Centre for Coaching, based at the University of Cape Town’s Graduate School of Business (GSB). Last year, in September 2015, a second ACC was launched just outside Geneva with a full class of 23 people spanning 3 continents. For the last 15 years, Craig O’Flaherty & Janine Everson have built the Centre into [...]

Becoming a Euro-node for Integral Coaching2018-04-05T17:55:13+02:00

Poem: The Lightfinder by Craig O’Flaherty

The Lightfinder  by CRAIG O’FLAHERTY You trace the way through deepening shadow, finding the spaces still touched by the glow. I stumble forward not sure where to step, then I stand where you are and light paints the ground. You stroke the foreground with luminous touch, and your words are soft hands holding my fears. As I step through my darkness the anxiety starts to soften and I start to see obstacles as foreground in my life I’m becoming my own Lightfinder as I search the right path.

Poem: The Lightfinder by Craig O’Flaherty2018-04-05T17:55:14+02:00

The UCT Graduate School of Business

The UCT Graduate School of Business (GSB) is one of the oldest business schools in South Africa, having been established in 1964 on the University of Cape Town's main campus in Rondebosch, Cape Town. Today, the GSB has its home at the Breakwater Campus at the Victoria and Alfred Waterfront, close to Cape Town's central business district. The campus, which was once a prison, derives its name from the fact that the site previously housed the convicts who built the Cape Town harbour breakwater in 1861. In the early 1990s, the derelict buildings were renovated to accommodate the business school [...]

The UCT Graduate School of Business2018-04-05T17:55:14+02:00
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