Leaders in coach-mentoring

This is the title slide Finding your Spiritual Purpose Katherine Long

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Why spirituality? • Is a spiritual perspective relevant in the world of business? • What do we even mean by spirituality? • And what does this have to do with coaching? • And what does it have to do with my purpose?

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my journey……. Coaching to Maximise Potential ppt

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What’s emerging? • Harvard Business School ‘Does Spirituality Drive Success?’ • Foundation for Workplace Spirituality • Concept of ‘Spiritual Intelligence’ and design of measures • ‘Miracles and Management’ conference • And many more…………….

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Defining our terms • What is ‘spirituality’?

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a map?

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a compass?

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a journey?

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hardwired into who we are?

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Taking a field perspective • What spiritual thinking and practices have shaped the field of coaching? • What are the common denominators? • How do they inter-relate? • What is their impact in business?

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Bohm’s Implicate and Explicate Order Implicate order – help us to understand ‘the unbroken wholeness of the totality of existence as an undivided flowing movement without borders’. Explicate order – the order present to our senses which enables us to apprehend the ‘relatively solid, tangible and stable elements which make up our ‘manifest world’’.

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Just a few examples of influences in coaching! • Person-centred approaches • Jungian psychology • Meditation and mindfulness • Existentialism • Authentic leadership • Motivational theory • Spiral dynamics • Quantum physics

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Trying to find a framework or model that is…

•Simple •Intuitive •Inclusive •Useful

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white white One-ness

( an experiential sense of the connectedness of everything)

blue presence

green-yellow

red

love

meaning

• being fully present in the moment • holding an accepting, nonjudging attitude • new life emerging • an expanded sense of time and space

• living empathy, humility, compassion, unconditional positive regard, harmony • respecting and valuing • forgiving and reconciling • care and stewardship in community

Presence and wholeness in relationship with

Right relationship and community with

• imbuing life with fresh purpose and meaning • refreshing our ways of seeing, knowing, being • living from values, authenticity, integrity • engaging choice-fully with the world, and mindful of our legacy Meaningful relationship with

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Relationship to coaching One-ness presence

love

practices for developing body, mind, spirit

ways of relating to self, clients, environment, universe

ways of developing knowledge and understanding

meaning

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Application to organisations One-ness What do we understand about the ways we are connected to each other, client, sector, society, environment, planet, universe, God?

presence •What do we do to support stillness and reflection in the workplace? •What is our attitude towards time? •What impact does our typical ways of seeing have? •What value do we place on presence and wholeness in relationship?

love •What do we do to nurture qualities of empathy, humility and compassion in the workplace? •How are respect, value, and forgiveness towards one another modelled? •What is our understanding of and commitment to stewardship? •How do we support right relationships at all levels, and build harmony and community?

meaning •How important is it for us to live out meaningful values with integrity and quality? •How do we support each other in authentically living out our personal sense of purpose and through our work? •How are we building our legacy and contribution to society? •How do we develop meaningful relationships at all levels?

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PRESENCE – THE BUSINESS CASE • …….Research suggests that high reliability organizations exhibit the characteristics of mindfulness. This dissertation examines the effect organizational mindfulness has on business decision processes and firm performance. In a study of 102 businesses, results show that individual owner mindfulness is related to organizational mindfulness and the quality of strategic decision processes…… (Baker, 2007) •

….results suggest that attentional performance and cognitive flexibility are positively related to meditation practice and levels of mindfulness. Meditators performed significantly better than nonmeditators on all measures of attention….(Moore, Malinkowski, 2008)

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LOVE – THE BUSINESS CASE •

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……Attending to the process of compassion in organizations provides a connection to much that is human in the workplace, helping to bring the "disappeared" world of human interaction back into focus in organizational scholarship, and shedding light on the significance of everyday interpersonal actions at work…….(Lilius et al, 2003). …….In the new economy characterized by accelerating speed of change, increasing alienation and a growing search for meaning, it makes good business sense to practice the art of forgiveness and to dispose the cognitions and behaviours of revenge. True forgiveness pillars the retention of valued employees, allows room for greater creativity and innovation, drives spirit of entrepreneurialism and leads to increased organizations’ performance which translates to higher profitability. The result is an agile organization that is able to adapt to changes in market conditions.….(Ismael et al 2009)

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MEANING – THE BUSINESS CASE •

…….if employees do not know what core values and goals are important to them, they will not find it in their current job, nor potentially any other………Kill off old notions of “career”, and earn the commitment of the workforce to a future of meaningful work and mutual success…… (Blessing White Global Employee Engagement Report 2011)

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…. "Authentic leaders show self-awareness, are transparent in their decision making, and demonstrate integrity consistently. Authenticity is a dynamic of the relationship between leader and follower. It contributes to the level of trust and confidence people have in their leader." (The Niagara Institute)

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white white One-ness

( an experiential sense of the connectedness of everything)

blue presence

green-yellow

red

love

meaning

• being fully present in the moment • holding an accepting, nonjudging attitude • new life emerging • an expanded sense of time and space

• living empathy, humility, compassion, unconditional positive regard, harmony • respecting and valuing • forgiving and reconciling • care and stewardship in community

Presence and wholeness in relationship with

Right relationship and community with

• imbuing life with fresh purpose and meaning • refreshing our ways of seeing, knowing, being • living from values, authenticity, integrity • engaging choice-fully with the world, and mindful of our legacy Meaningful relationship with

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True vocation joins self and service - ‘the place where your deep gladness meets the world’s deep need’. Parker J Palmer

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Coaching for meaning and purpose • The relationship between internal beliefs and meaning-making, and external action in the world • Meaning-making and finding purpose are dynamic states of awareness • Models and tools

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reflection

impact

external

meaning

actions

internal

purpose

intention

© Katherine Long 2013

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In 2s or 3s… • Think of a client or a work/personal situation you are working with. • Does your focus tend to be on internal or external aspects of meaning and purpose? • What would happen if your attention shifted?

Map of Meaning Leaders in coach-mentoring

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In 2s or 3s… • Pick and area of the map where you feel you are most effective and say why that is. • Pick and area of the map where you feel you are least effective and say why that is. • What changes could you make?

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Otto Scharmer Theory U

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In 2s or 3s… • Pick a part of the Theory U model and say why this is particularly significant for you. • What do you sense is emerging and wanting to move forward?

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You are here on earth to unearth who on earth you are.

The purpose of life is a life of purpose.

I'm starting to think that maybe this world is just a place for us to learn we need each other more than we want to admit.

The mystery of human existence lies not in just staying alive, but in finding something to live for.

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Final thoughts and reflections

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Thank you and please stay in touch! [email protected] Enjoy the rest of the conference!

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References • • • •

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Employee Engagement Report, Blessing White 2011 Forgiveness and Revenge: Empirical Study of Malaysian Business Employees Ismail, M. N et al 2009 Let your Life Speak, Palmer P.J. 2000 Map of Meaning Marjolein Lips-Wiersma accessed via: http://www.holisticdevelopment.org.nz/Media/Default/PageWithRightSideContent/resources/user_mo del_of_the_map.pdf Meditation, mindfulness and cognitive flexibility Moore, A and Malinkowski, P. 2008 Theory U: Leading from the Future as it Emerges, Scharmer, O.C. 2009 The relationship between mindfulness, strategic decision process and small business performance by Baker, L. T. Ph.D. The ‘S’ Factor Coaching at Work Volume 8, Issue 2, 2013 Long.K. What good is compassion at work? Lilius, M. J et al 2004 http://www.compassionlab.com/docs/whatgoodiscompassion.pdf Wholeness and the Implicate Order, Bohm, D. 1980