Dr. David Drake
Global Thought Leader On Narrative Coaching
Coaching with Radical Presence: The Four Thresholds our Clients Need to Cross
This Pre-Session lays the foundation for my Summit session on Pragmatic Enlightenment: Why the World Needs Elders and What it Takes to Become One. It offers an introduction to coaching as a rite of passage and why vertical development is both hard and more essential than ever for our clients.
We will focus on the concept of thresholds and their critical role in development as an act of intention not just a process of acquisition. We will explore how thresholds are essential crucibles through which our clients mature and why this is so important.
Using the narrative coaching framework, we will explore how to help clients mature through shifting their narratives about themselves and others and about their past and their future.
You will be able to trace your own development using this model as well, and identify openings for your own growth as a human and as a coach. This is essential work if we are to remain relevant to our clients because they are asking us to join them in bigger questions, more complex dilemmas and more unknown territories. In so doing, we discover that coaching becomes a way of life, a way of being. It is asking ourselves, “In this moment, what is needed most?”
You will learn about the power of radical presence to enable you and your clients to stand at the threshold that is before them at this stage in their journey. While many of you have cultivated aspects of it through somatic and mindfulness practices, radical presence takes it to the next level because it is tied into clients’ vertical development and maturity.
Key Learning Takeaways
1. An understanding of what a threshold is and its role in development
2. An understanding of how to identity developmental thresholds present in client’s issues
3. An understanding of radical presence and its role in the maturation process
Marshall Goldsmith
Award-winning Coach & Best-Selling Author
Marshall Goldsmith: Coach-Led Q&A: Ask Marshall Goldsmith Anything!
Participants will find themselves part of a fully-immersive, interactive learning experience, by seizing the opportunity to put their questions to formidable coaching expert, Marshall Goldsmith, one of the world’s leading executive educators, coaches, and authors.
During this engaging, deep-dive session, participants will be able to 'ask Marshall anything' and dig deep into his expertise and experience as one of the World's most recognised coaching thought-leaders - empowering them to immediately apply the knowledge and skills they have gained with their clients.
Key Learning Takeaways
1. A deeper understanding of how to communicate more effectively with your clients
2. Clarity surrounding coaching presence and the relationship you have with your clients
3. Insight into what it takes to be established as one of the greatest coaching thought-leaders in the world
David B. Peterson
Live Coaching Demonstration with David Peterson
Live Coaching Demonstration with David Peterson
During this live coaching demonstration, David Peterson will bring on one of his clients and coach them live using his methodologies. Attendees will get the chance to see high-level coaching in action and observe directly how a leading coach can establish trust, listen with complete focus, deeply understand their clients’ needs, ask powerful questions and communicate effectively during a real-life coaching situation.
The first part of the call will be the speaker introducing the client and what methodologies and process they are going to use to coach them. During the second part, the live coaching demonstration will take place. The third part is a debrief of the demonstration for attendees to learn which tools and methodologies the coach used in which context and understand how to create similar results with their own clients, especially when it comes to their coaching presence, listening ability, the power of the questions asked as well as clarity and effectiveness in communication.
The fourth and final part is a Q&A with the audience, helping them to integrate their learnings and gain additional clarity on how to implement their learnings with their own clients.
Key Learning Takeaways
1. When to trust your gut and when to be as rational and logical as you can
2. Why seeking and listening to people you disagree with is so important
3. How to avoid subtle but treacherous thinking errors that derail so many “good” decisions
4. How to see around corners so you’re not surprised by unanticipated consequences