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As I practice and engage it, Integral coaching aspires to:

• bring coherence and responsiveness to the complexity of the self’s sometimes wide-ranging and disparate strivings.
• cultivate insightful awareness of the range of motivations and intentions with which individuals often wrestle.
• become an important step toward designing a life plan or purpose that is in alignment with a deeper intention.

Integral insight involves an understanding of all the different sides of ourselves:

• so as to better be able to consciously relate to elements that we may otherwise be unaware of.
• It is not only the presenting life conditions that a client needs to get a handle on, but more importantly…
• it is the interpretations that he or she brings to bear on the circumstance that determines outcomes.
• I strive to assist individuals to develop a clearer relationship with oftentimes unexamined beliefs, values, and perspectives.

Indeed, this process will often reveal hidden “competing commitments”

• that serve to derail otherwise boldly stated good intentions and heartfelt efforts to change.
• I employ a process to help the client excavate these hidden immune systems to change.
• By penetrating unexamined “big assumptions” that hold us back, (by wanting to protect us from old stories)
• With support and guidance, we are then more readily able to risk beginning to take small measured steps toward exploring self-defeating, self-imposed limitations.

In order to help individuals be long-term exceptional performers in relationship and at work,

• integral coaching involves looking at both the individual as well as collective dimensions
• of both interior and exterior elements of one’s life.
• This means taking into account the “I’ the “We” and the “It” pronouns, in order to refer to first, second and third person perspectives.
• Exterior dimensions are physically observable, interiors are experienced internally or phenomenologically

The individual interior dimension (I) of experience has to do with how we make personal meaning.

• Any person reading this right now is having a unique and individual interior experience
• Such a perspective involves a unique combination of cognitive abilities, emotional reactions, motivations, sense of purpose, values and so forth
• This is how we understand ourselves, consciously or otherwise

The collective interior dimension (We) is the “cultural/shared values” aspect

• These are our shared principles, values, mental models, the sense of being part of something and so on
• This is where there is a “meeting of the minds” with our groups of others, near and far
• Where we entertain commonly held ideas
• Whether we have our own larger perspective on these modes of collective understanding or not

The collective exterior sides of ourselves involves that which we often talk about in how we see things running or operating

• Systems and processes
• Regulatory systems, systems of governance
• Written rules of engagement, and established codes of conduct that we either operate by, or believe we are supposed to

The individual exterior domain has to do with our physically observable behaviors

• Personal skills
• Performance demonstrations,
• Expressed talents and duties
• Evident and recognizable health and so forth

An integral coach helps the client to make sense out of all of these disparate dimensions of life, so as to have a map or system with which to more readily be able to make sense of things, so as to more easily self initiate or self correct in the right arenas of the self.