This document discusses transpersonal coaching as an approach that helps clients explore their deeper purpose and meaning beyond just their roles and material needs. It notes that as traditional sources of community and spirituality break down, people are seeking more fulfillment. Transpersonal coaching draws from fields like transpersonal psychology and positive psychology to help clients connect with their authentic selves and find energy through alignment with inner values. However, transpersonal topics can be difficult within a Western scientific paradigm that demands objective evidence and sees spirituality separately from religion or consciousness. The document explores how role crises or life changes can catalyze openness to transpersonal perspectives and lists some barriers like scientific skepticism or society's need for defined roles.

1. Transpersonal Coaching A few thoughts…

3. "Affluence, global communication and the secularisation of society have brought the transpersonal onto many people's agenda, both personally and at work." Sir John Whitmore

5. More socially networked and connected than ever but becoming increasingly isolated

6. Both rich baby boomers and those being hit by recession are recognising that material goods are failing to satisfy their deepest needs

8. Role Crisis Roles give us “meaning” Roles “define us” A major crisis which “threatens” a role Redundancy Retirement Divorce/relationship ending Bereavement Can act as a catalyst towards exploration of the transpersonal in effort to find “real” meaning

9. Transpersonal Psychology Transpersonal Psychology "is concerned with the study of humanity’s highest potential, and with the recognition, understanding, and realization of unitive, spiritual, and transcendent states of consciousness" Journal of Transpersonal Psychology (Lajoie and Shapiro, 1992:91)

11. Transpersonal Coaching is about working with a person to help them live and work more fully and deeply with purpose and meaning

14. Greater self awareness is highly correlated with success

15. It’s about finding and being able to access the reservoir of energy at your core

17. Materialist or not With which of the next two slides do you most agree The Materialist Creed Einstein’s view

18. Do you believe – The Materialists creed * I BELIEVE - in the material universe - as the only and ultimate reality - a universe controlled by fixed physical laws - and blind chance. I AFFIRM - that the universe has no creator - no objective purpose - and no objective meaning or destiny. I MAINTAIN - that all ideas about God or gods - enlightened beings - prophets and saviors - or other non-physical beings or forces - are superstitions and delusions. - Life and consciousness are totally identical to physical processes - and arose from chance interactions of blind physical forces. - Like the rest of life - my life - and my consciousness - have no objective purpose - meaning - or destiny. I BELIEVE - that all judgments, values, and moralities - whether my own or others - are subjective - arising solely from biological determinants - personal history - and chance. - Free will is an illusion. - Therefore the most rational values I can personally live by must be based on the knowledge that for me - what pleases me is Good - what pains me is Bad. - Those who please me or help me avoid pain are my friends - those who pain me or keep me from my pleasure are my enemies. - Rationality requires that friends and enemies be used in ways that maximize my pleasure - and minimize my pain. I AFFIRM - that churches have no real use other than social support - that there are no objective sins to commit or be forgiven for - that there is no divine or supernatural retribution for sin or reward for virtue - although there may be social consequences of actions. - Virtue for me is getting what I want - without being caught and punished by others. I MAINTAIN - that the death of the body - is the death of the mind. - There is no afterlife - and all hope of such is nonsense. * The End of Materialism, C Tart

19. Or do you believe Einstein…. A human being is part of the whole called by us universe, a part limited in time and space. We experience ourselves, our thoughts and feelings as something separate from the rest. A kind of optical delusion of consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from the prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty. The true value of a human being is determined by the measure and the sense in which they have obtained liberation from the self. We shall require a substantially new manner of thinking if humanity is to survive. Albert Einstein, 1954 The most beautiful and most profound experience is the sensation of the mystical. It is the sower of all true science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead. To know that what is impenetrable to us really exists, manifesting itself as the highest wisdom and the most radiant beauty which our dull faculties can comprehend only in their primitive forms - this knowledge, this feeling is at the center of true religiousness. Albert Einstein - The Merging of Spirit and Science

20. Levels of Consciousness* Transpersonal (integrative and mystical structures) Crisis or “Yes, I am all these roles, But who am I really?” Personal (conscious mental processes) WHAT GETS US THERE? Role crisis Meditation Religion Noetic Experience Losing fear of non rational Rejecting scientific model as all encompassing Transpersonal Coaching Pre-personal (subconscious motivations) WHAT KEEPS US HERE Self Image Playing our roles Society needs us in Role (s) Material values Evidence based rationality Child Development The barrier which has been erected by Western Scientific Model. Loss of the Transpersonal - an inevitable cost of scientific progress * Based on Ken Wilber’s model

21. Spiritual Intelligence Emotional Intelligence Wilber’s Consciousness Model Transpersonal Coaching Meditation Presencing & Theory U Mindfulness

22. Recapturing rapture My fiftieth year had come and gone. I sat, a solitary man, In a crowded London shop, An open book, an empty cup On the marble table top. While on the shop and street I gazed, My body of a sudden blazed, And twenty minutes, more or less, It seemed so great my happiness That I was blessed and could bless. W B Yeats, Vacillations

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