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Spring 2012

Time, Meaning and Commitmentby James Flaherty

Have you ever tried to find the precise instant when the present becomes the past or when the future becomes

the present? You could stop for a moment now and see what you can find out.

So many people these days say that only the present is real, but it’s not so clear what is meant by “the present.” How long does it last? It can be cut into thinner and thinner and thin-ner slices, so what is its duration? It certainly is so thin that by the time we get to say what our experience is, it’s gone and something has replaced it. In that sense—and in many others—we are always speaking about the past.

And what do we mean by the past exactly? By this point in your life, you undoubtedly have discovered that every time you look back at what happened—the commonsense notion of the past—it’s changed. What we thought was a terrible event turns out to be the beginning of something precious; what we thought was the chance of a lifetime became a deep disappointment; but then it became …

The ramifications of what happened before have still not played out. In the US, we are still working out the consequences of our 19th century civil war. In China, the Cultural Revolution is still being sorted. In India, the division of territory into Hindu and Muslim areas still has unknown consequences; we won’t know what they are until later.

So what really happened, “back there in time”? When is the past over? Maybe that’s what the future is: the place where the past keeps arriving over and over again.

I am thinking these days that Faulkner got it completely correct when he famously said, “The past is never dead. It’s not even past.” Maybe it’s as the contemporary French philosopher Deleuze posits: that the past is curled up with infinite possibilities that keep unfurling and then curling back, only to unfurl again in a new form.

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Practice of the Quarter............................2Poems of the Quarter...............................4Book of the Quarter.................................5

Happenings................................................. 6Graduate News..........................................9Course Calendar......................................11

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I’m saying here that the past, present and future are indivisible—and in fact always show up together. Yes, I know that we can speak about them as sepa-rate, but that’s different than what the phenomena is, what our experience is.

It seems to me that for us meaning and time are in-terwoven. Time may well be the place where mean-ing shows up. Any moment of meaning reaches back to “the past,” happens in “the present,” and changes how we plan for feel about “the future.”

And can there be any deep meaning without com-mitment? I don’t refer to the pleasure of our local team winning or the contentment of a cozy night at home or the excitement of reaching our goal; but rather something upon which we can settle our-selves, build a life.

Of course, there are people who say that their life is made up of a series of events like the ones I’ve listed that, when counted as positive, add up to a good life. Often these folks say that they have let go of the past and are eager to face the future.

But does that kind of life, which can be full of fun activity, occupy all that is possible for us? I say no.

More exploration of these topics in the practice of the quarter, poems of the quarter and book of the quarter.

Take care of yourself.

Love,

Practice of the Quarter: “A Life-Defining Commitment”

Part One

Please list your major commitments in your life. For each one, please consider the following questions:

To what extent does this commitment organize my whole life, giving me grounding for making decisions, using resources, initiating and changing relationships?

To what extent does this commitment give meaning to my life, both backwards and forwards in time?

What am I willing to give up or set aside or postpone for the sake of this commitment?

What identity does having this commitment give me?

If you find a commitment or two that, based upon this examination, turns out to be one that you can build your life on, then please proceed to the next part.

If you don’t, please go to Part Three instead.

Part Two

For this commitment, please do the following self-observation for 30 days and then answer the questions at the end of this part.

Please stop three times each day—at the middle of your day, at

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“Enlightenment is the ability to give totally in every second. It’s not about having some great experience. Such moments may occur, but they don’t make an enlightened life. We need to ask, “What does it mean for me to give in this moment?” For example, when the phone rings, how can we give? When doing physical work—cleaning, painting, cooking—what does it mean to give totally?

So please: give, give, give—and practice, practice, practice. It is the Way.”

—Joko Beck (1917-2011)

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the end of your workday, and just before sleep—and ask yourself the following questions. Please take some notes so that you can begin to notice patterns.

During this period of time:

In what ways did my life-defining commitment shape how I lived? The decisions I made? The conversations or relationships I stepped into or out of?

What meaning did this life-defining commitment bring to me and to those around me?

Did I feel any constraint from this life-defining commitment? Was there anything I felt drawn to but said no to because of this life-defining commitment? How did that feel to me?

In what ways did I re-choose this life-defining commitment?

What action(s) will I take up, put down or modifiy from what I learned in this exercise?

Questions after 30 days:

How full / empty of meaning is my life because of my life-defining commitment?

How does my life-defining commitment influence and shape my relationships? What’s that like for me?

What new possibilities, including new actions or initiatives or relationships, have opened up for me by studying my life–defining commitment for this period of time?

Part Three

This exercise is for people who did not find a life-defining commitment from the inquiry of Part One.

Please do the following self-observation for 30 days. Please stop three times per day—at noon, at the end of the workday, and just before sleep—and ask yourself the following questions. Please write down some notes so that you can begin to notice patterns.

During this period of time:

Did I take any action based upon commitments? What type of commitment was it?

Did I ignore any commitments that I had made? In what way does that make sense to me?

What was the basis of actions that I took, other than commitments?

Was there any difference between actions I took based upon commitments and actions I took that were not based upon commitments, in terms of meaning, and in terms of my engagement and thoroughness in doing it?

What actions will I take up, put down or modify from what I learned in this exercise?

Questions after 30 days:

What did I learn about the effect commitment has on my experience of my life?

What were the sources of meaning in my life during this period of time?

Is meaning an important topic in my life? What is important in my life? Why is that?

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P O E M S O F T H E Q U A R T E R

To the Mistakes

You are the ones whowere not recognizedin time although youmay have been waitingin full sight in broadday from the first step that set out toward you and although you mayhave been prophesiedhung round with warningshad your big picturesin all the papersyet in the flesh youdid not look like thateach of you in turnseemed like no one elseyou are the oneswho are really my ownnever will leave me forever after or ever belongto anyone elseyou are the ones Imust have neededthe ones who led mein spite of all that was said about you you placed my footstepson the only way

To the Sorrow String

You invisible oneresounding on your ownwhatever the othershappen to be playingsource of a notenot there in the scoreunder whatever keyunphrased continuogut stretched betweenthe beginning and the endwhat would the musicbe without yousince even through the chorus of pure joythe tears hear you and nothing can restrain them

To Finding Again

Everything else must have changedmust be differentby the time you appearmore than ever the same

taking me by surprisein my differencemy agelong after I had cometo the endof believing in youto the end of hope

which was not eventhe first of the changes

when I imaginedthat I was forgetting youyou did not even need memoryto remain thereletting the years vanishthe miles depart

nothing surprising in that

even longingdoes not need memoryto know what to reach for

and nothing surprises youwho were always there wherever it was

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Poems by W.S. Merwin

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B O O K O F T H E Q U A R T E R

A Year With Hafiz: Daily ContemplationsIntroduction and translation by Daniel Ladinsky

A dear friend gave me this book for my birthday this year. I must have given out five or more copies of it to my other dear friends since then. The book is a collection of poems and quotes from the Sufi master and mystic poet Hafiz.

Its power begins with the introduction, where we find that some extraordinary, eclectic bands of people admired Hafiz, including Nietzsche and Emerson, who translated it into English for the first time.

The book has a page to read for every day of the year. Each reading comes exquisitely directly into the heart and body and illuminates the mind. Hafiz brings joy, love, support, challenge, humor, mys-tery, wisdom, and inspiration … just to name a few of the qualities that he gifts us with.

A great cover and old-fashioned pages present the work in a beautiful way that suits the gorgeous words.

An indispensable companion that we can keep close to us during our whole life–get this book, treasure it, and pass it around.

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Summary

Scale 1–5

Usefulness

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Rigor

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HAPPENINGS

This summer, for the third year in a row, New Ventures West founder James Flaherty teams up with Russ Hudson, co-founder of the Enneagram Institute, for their one-of-a-kind training combining these two transformative modalities. We had a conversation with James on what is closest to his heart when it comes to this training, what makes it so effective, and why, year after year, it is so widely attended.

When and how did you and Russ meet and begin working together?

Russ and I met about five years ago through mutual friends that had done both the Enneagram training and the PCC, and they thought that we would hit it off. We had brunch one Sunday morning and ended up walking around and going to bookstores and DVD stores and discovered we had a million things in common. We liked each other and the friendship built from there. I did Part One of the Enneagram Institute training in New Mexico, and then we decided to do a live course. We held three teleclasses in preparation, and from there went to the weeklong class.

What moved you to offer this course?

Since we both had deep backgrounds to draw from, Russ and I felt that something very powerful could happen if we came together in person and created an environment and an in-the-moment process for people. Plus, the folks who would include themselves in the program would also bring great experience and great commitment to their development, and in that crucible something amazing could happen. That turns out to be true. We both also wanted to be influenced by the other and we wanted to step out of our usual topics that we were teaching about all the time.

How has the training evolved over the past three years?

Every year we try to keep a skeleton of the same curriculum because of the promises we make to the attendees, but we come together for a few days of preparation ahead of time

and each bring whatever we’re interested in in the moment. For example, right now I’m studying the work of the French philosopher Deleuze, who’s bringing to my mind a different way of understanding human beings. And I don’t know what Russ has been up to, so he’ll bring whatever he’s in the middle of—not only what he’s studying, but the music he’s listening to, the people he’s met, and whatever’s happening in his own spiritual unfolding (and I’ll bring all that too).

It’s like we’ve both been shopping at different stores than we were in past years, and we’re bringing different

ingredients. We also have more sophisticated taste buds that we’re bringing to the kitchen. This is a chance for both of us to not be very restricted by the curriculum and have a chance to really stretch out

and try out ideas that either we’ve been thinking about or come up in our conversations together.

Also, each year, we’re both intent on not repeating the orthodoxy, dogma, and what’s already been said.

What have you found to be the most meaningful part of the training?

The unexpected flashes of insights that have occurred for Russ and for me as we go along. We each have eclectic backgrounds, deep spiritual practices, varied interests, and fascinating people in our lives. And in the midst of all this there is all this mutual interest. And we don’t agree on everything, so there is an alchemical process that happens every day that turns what we’re doing into something surprising and illuminating.

For example, in last year’s course we did a long riff about anxiety. We both spoke for 10-15 minutes on what

Sustaining Development: James Flaherty’s Reflections on The Enneagram and Integral Coaching

“If you are looking for a way to bring the kind of insights we explore in the Enneagram work

powerfully into the world of coaching, you need look no further.” - Russ Hudson, co-founder of the

Enneagram Institute and course co-leader

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(continued from p. 6) we usually said on the topic, both drawing on our own experiences and what we’ve seen in other people. Russ is deeply read in 20th-century psychodynamic theory, so he knows all the big thinkers and movements in that area, and he drew on all that as well as the spiritual side. We came up with a way of showing what anxiety is, both from the inside of what it feels like, but also from a wider perspective of what it might really be—the cracking open of a world that we didn’t know existed; the falling apart of the world that we’re sure of; a beckoning into a realm of excitement and engagement with life—that we didn’t even know to go after.

Sometimes it’s like musicians playing: one person starts out and plays a little something and the other person does an improvisational twist on that, and then 10-20 minutes into that it turns into something far away from where you started, and something that hasn’t existed before.

Or it’s like two people painting the same painting: one person puts on this part, one person puts on another part, and the piece comes out as something that neither person would paint, but a better/fresher expression of what was intended. The power of it is we’re both learning from the group, learning from each other, and learning from ourselves as we talk, because we draw things out of each other that in other circumstances might not be drawn.

How does the group contribute to this dynamic?

The groups that we’ve had have been pretty close to half people who have done Enneagram training and not coach training, and half vice-versa. The community immediately feels close to each other. They come together and start to ask questions from a different perch than they usually would. For example, someone might ask me, “You said this in the coaching course and I never really understood it, but didn’t realize I didn’t understand it until now, so … what were you talking about?” People will say things to me that they normally wouldn’t because Russ is there, and Russ experiences the same thing. Accepted principles are brought into question from both sides. And we both so much love the people who attend and are very open to what they have to say, and the stuff they teach us.

What is your favorite exercise?

Each year I’ll coach three different people, and Russ will use his understanding of the Enneagram and human development and do a postmortem of what happened and why it worked. Usually everyone (including me) goes, “oh, REALLY?” One year I coached a woman who is a 7, and at the end Russ pointed out how she’d moved to 5. It blew my mind. I didn’t have that intention in my mind during the conversation, but it happened. And the same thing happened with the next person I coached. Tuning in to the person and where the conversation tends toward maps perfectly onto the

Enneagram, time after time. That both showed that the power of the Enneagram is way deeper than just a chemical connection or set of wires, and also that our kind of coaching can deeply tune into what’s going on with a client. I don’t know the people I coach to begin

with, but we have a way of getting into the middle of someone’s life that is parallel to the way the Enneagram does it (at least the way Russ & Don [Riso] teach it).

What else would you like people to know about the course?

At the end of each course we give people a chance to debrief and check out and tell us what they got. This isn’t a promoter … I honestly can’t believe the things we’ve heard. People have said things like, “I discovered what my life’s about.” “I found out how much I really love my spouse and had no idea.” “I found a way of reconciling with someone I’ve been estranged from for 20 years.” Russ and I think, “what are you guys talking about?” We just thought we were playing tunes and having a good time. We can’t account for what we did and what happened. That’s the part I’m most looking forward to. n

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Sometimes it’s like musicians playing: one person starts out and plays a little something and the

other person does an improvisational twist on that, and then 10-20 minutes into that it turns into

something far away from where you started, and something that hasn’t existed before.

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Coaching Reunion Weekend

HAPPENINGS

Year Launch 2013 with James Flaherty

Topic: “Bursting Into Life: Your Roar, Your Light Unleashed”

Our upcoming Year Launch (formerly known as the Coaching Reunion Weekend) will be the most powerful of the twenty that have been offered. It is being designed over a year’s period and will leave each person in direct contact with their unique and necessary personal voice—their roar—and with the beginning competence to express it, free from self-judging constraint: unleashing it.

The weekend workshop will be full of somatic and expressive practice so that everyone in attendance will begin to feel in their body who it is possible for them to be and the kind of difference they can make every time they speak.

Purpose of the Course: Your unique voice and your illuminating wisdom profoundly

shift, expand and vitalize all the domains you care about in life.

Intended Outcomes: You begin to embody a process that unifies your body, heart,

mind, and spirit across all the worlds in which you live.

You start being and accomplishing from a dynamic self who’s freshly powerful in each moment.

You sensitively, unapologetically, vividly occupy every aspect of your unfolding self.

San Francisco, Jan. 4-6 & Jan. 18-20 Washington DC, Feb. 8-10

Six-month teleclass also offered

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Spreading the LightA call for support in bringing the

Professional Coaching Course to India By Sarita Chawla, senior NVW faculty member

I have returned to India almost every year since I arrived in the US in 1969. I find that there, as in other parts of the world, lives are plagued with busyness and lack of time. In the work we have done

so far in Asia, there has been a remembering of the importance of development, of wholeness, of the spiritual stream.

My last few trips to India have involved leading courses in Integral Coaching with faculty members Divya and Vivek. I have found pockets of interest that seem alive and curious, and I continue to wonder about the emergent pattern of interest. I truly believe that Integral Coaching will support the wellbeing of Asians as they take their place in the modern world.

It feels like a natural next step, then, to bring the Professional Coaching Course to India. We are inviting grads, students, and friends of New Ventures West who live in India—or who are associated with the spirit of this precious work and India—to help us bring this work to life there. Are you one of them, or do you know someone that is the perfect fit?

Please e-mail sarita@newventureswest.com with your ideas. Divya, Vivek and I are dedicated to this effort.

Divya Sethi

Vivek Saxena

The First Integral Coaching Convocation*

San Francisco, 3 full days: May 13-15, 2013

In the spirit of “Bursting into Life,” all are invited to gather with the international faculty, students, graduates and other teachers from around the world to converse, explore, and celebrate Integral Coaching. Save the date for this very special event!

*Convocation (n): from the Latin for “calling together,” a group of people formally assembled for a special purpose

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HAPPENINGS

New Ventures West is hiring

We are looking now for an administrative assistant to start on August 1 in our San Francisco office. Excellent command of the English language, great people skills, Mac-savvy, organized, and efficient—these are all essential qualities for this role. If you’ve had prior experience with bookkeeping, databases, CMS, and/or graphic design, we’ll love you even more.

To apply, please submit your résumé along with a handwritten cover letter to give us a sense of who you are beyond just your job history. We will respond to all applications that include both pieces, letting you know whether or not we would like to set up an interview.

Applications can be faxed to 415.666.0558, mailed to NVW at PO Box 591525, San Francisco CA 94159, or e-mailed to stacy@newventureswest.com. (Please note that this mailbox is protected by SpamArrest and will require a one-click authorization to get your e-mail delivered.)

Special Discount on Summer Retreats at Feathered Pipe

The Feathered Pipe Foundation, a wonderful educational retreat center in Montana, is offering a special incentive discount for its 2012 summer retreats to members of the New Ventures West community.

If you sign up for a weeklong retreat and identify yourself as a student, graduate, or friend of New Ventures West, you’ll get a $100 discount on your retreat.

Visit www.featheredpipe.com to learn more about their transformative retreats and to take advantage of the discount.

Please welcome our new Director of

Communications!Jill Clark, our current Director of Communications, has accepted an incredible opportunity to be Senior Sales Trainer at Quantcast, where she’ll be coaching and developing young technology professionals on a daily basis. We wish her all the best as she steps more fully into the work of her heart. The wonderful work she has done during her yearlong tenure with us has helped to spread our name and our work farther out into the world than it has ever gone. She will be missed.

As sad as we are to see Jill go, we are delighted to announce that the talented Vegar Svanemyr will be stepping into the role. Vegar is passionate about graphic design, the Internet video revolution, and the transformational potential of social media. His multifaceted experience includes building websites, creating print ads, and production of webcasts and live audio/video events (including one for over 3,000 visitors from over 70 countries for the Open Government Partnership in Brazil last month!).

If Vegar’s last name sounds familiar, it’s because he’s the husband of Director of Development, Christy Svanemyr! We look forward to welcoming him on board later this month.

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Congratulations and welcome to our recent grads!

N V W G R A D U A T E D E P T

Daniel Ahlers, Bassins, SwitzerlandDavid Allen, Sandton, Gauteng, South AfricaAndreas Andreou, Washington, DCNida Backaitis, McLean, VARobin Ben-Hur, Vevey, SwitzerlandAnthea Boehmke, Claremont, South AfricaJuliana Bohórquez, Bogota, ColombiaJean Casey, Carollton, TXRocio Chavez, Mexico City, MexicoRoxanne Commette, Hyde Park, MAKelly Coyle Wyngarden, Lakewood, COEric Craven, San Francisco, CAAngie Dabbs, Ellicott City, MDCiuin Doherty, Venice, CABrenda Eckstein, Pietermaritzburg, South AfricaKeith Garrod, Western Cape, South AfricaMichele Goins, Los Altos, CAKraye Grymonnt, Montpelier, VT Rubina Gulati, Sacramento, CA Liz Halton, San Francisco, CAMona Hoffman, Jasper, INDebbi Hope, North Andover, MAAudrey Ichida, Cheverly, MD Jo Ilfeld, Berkeley, CAStacy Kagan, Melrose North, South AfricaAdam Klein, San Francisco, CAMelissa Knight, San Francisco, CAMike McDonald, Oakland, CABonnie McGlynn, Hamilton, BermudaNancy Murphy, Paonia, CORika Myburg, Rooihuiskraal, South AfricaWendy Nagel, Parkhurst, South Africa

Marilize Nagtegaal, Melkbosstrand, South AfricaKanabaran Naidoo, Helikon Park, South AfricaNaahid Nakidien, Surrey Estate, South AfricaJustin Newdigate, Cape Town, South AfricaMichael Nowacki, McMinnville, ORKathrin O’Sullivan, San Francisco, CARenée Petzer, Lakeside, South AfricaCarol Putnam, Carnation, WALeela Ramdhani, Sandton, South AfricaDudu Rance, Karen, Nairobi, KenyaPhil Ridgwell, Jukskei Park, South AfricaEllen Robinson, Denver, COGavin Routledge, Helderberg, South AfricaDanny Ryan, San Francisco, CAVanessa Sayers, Johannesburg, South AfricaTracy Scott, Paulshof, South AfricaJulia Seal, Cape Town, South AfricaTodd Slingsby, Alamo, CAPam Steyn, Kloof, South AfricaPerri Strawn, Narberth, PAMargareta Strömsäter, Blonay, SwitzerlandLaila Tarraf, San Francisco, CAGuy Thomson, Greenacres, Port Elizabeth, South AfricaMaria Trias, San Diego, CAKevin Turner, Green Point, South AfricaMargie Van Rensburg, Cape Town, South AfricaEsta Viviers, Northlands, South AfricaSharon Wakeford, Gauteng, South AfricaRon Walkow, Arlington, VAJane Weintraub, Montpelier, VTMaureen Williams, Chicago, IL

ICF UpdateThe International Coach Federation recently commissioned PriceWaterhouseCoopers to conduct the second Global Coaching Study (the original was done in 2005). The study, believed be “one of the most ambitious pieces of global industry research ever conducted on the field of professional coaching,” comprises over 12,000 responses from coaches in 117 countries. Several key themes emerged from the study and give us a sense of where our industry is going. Get more info and download the fascinating study here.

In other ICF news, credentialing requirements are shifting. Get the scoop here.

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FREE PROGRAMSCOACHING ROUNDTABLEOne-day introduction to Integral Coaching and an opportunity for graduates to reconnect and discuss a new coaching topic.

San Francisco May 5 September 15Cost: Free

VIRTUAL ROUNDTABLEFree one-hour teleclasses on topics germane to Integral Coaching. All calls take place from noon-1 p.m. Pacific Time.

May 25 with James FlahertyTopic: “Vocation”Cost: Free

MEET THE LEADER CALLFree one-hour calls hosted by leaders of the Professional Coaching Course. All calls take place from noon-1 p.m. Pacific Time.

May 29 with Sarita ChawlaCost: Free

FREE COACHING AS A GUEST CLIENTSpend a half or full day being coached by a highly trained student. Experience Integral Coaching® firsthand and come away with fresh insights and practices.

San Francisco Half days June 8, 9; August 17, 18

Full days June 23, Oct 6 Singapore Full day September 15Cost: Free

COACH BUILDING BLOCKSCOACHING TO EXCELLENCETwo interactive days on the foundations of Integral Coaching.

Chicago August 21-22Copenhagen May 31-June 1London May 30-June 1San Francisco July 25-26Washington DC July 24-25 Cost: $695 in the U.S.**See our website for international pricing

INTEGRAL COACHING PRINCIPLESThree-day exploration of Integral Coaching for current coaches, counselors, and HR and OD professionals from all schools of training.

San Francisco October 23-25Cost: $1,275

THE ENNEAGRAM AND INTEGRAL COACHING An intensive five-day training for new and experienced coaches.

San Francisco June 11-16Cost: $1,495

COACH AS ENTREPRENEURBuild your business as a coach by finding your unique gifts and developing your skills and way of being as an entrepreneur.

Chicago June 21-23San Francisco July 13-15 November 2-4Cost: $1,495

COACH CERTIFICATIONTHE PROFESSIONAL COACHING COURSECertification program for independent and corporate coaches. The next year-long programs begin:

Chicago October 2012London November 2012 Montrèal (in French) October 2012San Francisco September 2012 November 2012Cost: $9,500 in the U.S.**See our website for international pricing

GRADUATE PROGRAMSMASTER CLASS WITH SARITA CHAWLAA powerful program for grads on a topic relevant to our coach-ing work and own self-development.

San Francisco October 29-30Washington, DC October 4-5Cost: $475

BOOK STUDY GROUP WITH JAMESMonthly conference calls with guest authors applying current texts to Integral Coaching.

Quarters begin January, April, July, OctoberCost: $375/quarter

Visit our website for a full list of courses taking place around the world

THWARTING THE INNER CRITIC

Learn to to tame and dismantle the grip of the inner voices of our critic that rob us of our self-esteem and vigor. Designed and led by senior faculty member Sarita Chawla, this popular class is open to the general public.

San Francisco July 19-20Cost: $675

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