Integral Coaching

Part 1: Orientations

Joanne Hunt, Laura Divine, and Ken Wilber discuss the advent of Integral Coaching, whose services will be made available to the Integral community in the coming months. They share some of the unique contributions the Integral approach offers to coaches and clients alike, providing the most comprehensive map of growth and human development available today.

Part 2: Communicating Across Worlds

Have you ever had a conversation with someone, but left feeling frustrated and unheard, as if the other person was in a completely different world? Well, there is a good chance that they were—at least in the ways they perceive and interpret what's important to them. In the second installment of this dialogue, Joanne Hunt and Laura Divine further explore the concept of "Native Perspectives," noting the four very different approaches to reality that influence our relationship with the world, with each other, and with ourselves. If you wish to understand how we can communicate more clearly and more effectively with the people around us, you won't want to miss this fascinating dialogue.

Part 3: The Many Ways We Grow

In the third installation of the Integral Coaching dialogue, Joanne Hunt, Laura Divine, and Ken Wilber discuss the many ways human beings grow and develop in their lives. There are many different aspects of human experience (often referred to as "multiple intelligences" or "lines of development") that all grow at different velocities through different levels of proficiency and sophistication. Without taking these different aspects of psychological maturity into account, many schools of coaching end up working with two-dimensional caricatures of their clients—unable to fully appreciate the knotted elegance of human potential, and therefore unable to locate the very real leverage points of growth and development.

Part 4: The Flavors of Presence

In the final installment of Joanne, Laura, and Ken's dialogue, they discuss the last two components of the Integral Coaching method: states of consciousness and typologies. Whereas stages of consciousness are about "growing up," states of consciousness are about waking up. These states describe a very wide range of experience, but can be loosely summarized as falling into four general categories: gross waking states, subtle dreaming states, causal deep dreamless states, and nondual states that take us beyond the dichotomies of this and that, inside and outside, "me" and "not me". These states tend to carry tremendous meaning for a person, and are available at any point in a person's growth and development—through it is important to note that our states of consciousness will always be interpreted from whatever stage of consciousness a person is at when he or she has the experience.