Many people ask about Psychosynthesis Coaching, and what differentiates it from other coaching modalities. If you have questions after reading this, please feel free to make direct contact.
What is Coaching?
Coaching is a supportive, enabling, empowering relationship and activity that honours the autonomy, resourcefulness, creativity and responsibility of the client. It is goal, future or outcome oriented in purpose, and yet can include working with you in the domains of past as well as present to understand what may be hindering your potential. Psychosynthesis Coaching involves contracting with a qualified practitioner for 6 sessions of 1-2 hours duration over a 3 to 6 month period; one session every 2 to 4 weeks, tailored to your unfolding needs.
What is Psychosynthesis?
Psychosynthesis is a holistic model of psychology created by Roberto Assagioli, an Italian psychiatrist and pioneer in the fields of humanistic and transpersonal psychology. It's a highly respected and well utilised model in psychotherapy. Assagioli evolved and integrated the theories of Sigmund Freud and Carl Jung into his famous Psychosynthesis Egg, or map of the psyche. The simplicity of the map helps to identify where you are on your personal and professional development, and facilitates the progression through change, building resilience, relationship, and trust whilst addressing fears and blocks. The field of consciousness expands and we become more whole and authentic along the way. Don't underestimate its simplicity, its profound and infinite with its ongoing layers. Psychosynthesis provides a psycho-spiritual context and method that will help you work with issues of identity, purpose, meaning and values. It is a powerful coaching psychology that can help us connect with our inner resources, activate the will, strengthen our sense of self and develop our capacity for being in right relationship with others. It provides an accessible grammar for transformation through activating principles of wholeness and purpose, making it a living and evolving psychology for today. Psychosynthesis Coaching is an evolutionary professional relationship that responds to the emerging needs of individuals, leaders, organisations and society, integrating and absorbing the latest learning in psychology and related fields for example in neuroscience and neuropsychology, developmental psychology and integral philosophy, systemic and somatic coaching.
The Psychosynthesis Coach will focus on providing you with a supportive holding environment which assists you to realise your full potential and actualise yourself in the world. Additionally it can help you to address issues of identity, purpose, meaning and values and negotiate crisis in whatever form it appears in your life. Psychosynthesis is also a psychology of human development, illuminating the different phases of how the self develops, and guiding the synthesis of our disparate parts, with the goal of becoming more whole as human beings. This is very important for coaching, which is about helping you actualise your potential through the activation of your will. At the same time, the depth dimensions of psychosynthesis enables the coach to deal with the clients barriers to success, often limiting mind-sets. Psychosynthesis works at sub-conscious and un-conscious levels which other coaching behavioural approaches only address superficially. Through Psychosynthesis Coaching you will find innovative solutions to problems providing stepping stones toward transformation.
What about Sarah?
Sarah is a Psychosynthesis Executive Leadership Coach with further qualifications in systemic and embodiment disciplines. Her clients are women, located in Jersey and London, in senior leadership roles, who are responsible for innovative change.
She has over 30 years experience as a Chartered Accountant supporting the financial planning, financial management and development of business cases for the design and implementation of change up to the value of half a billion pounds in the public health care sector. This is invaluable in understanding and relating to the difficulties her leadership clients face implementing sustainable global change. As a qualified teacher of adults, Sarah has experience teaching and facilitating change for professionals. With a passion for continual personal and professional development, she has qualifications in psychology, mindfulness, and embodiment practices. Sarah uses these skills with clients to manage and moderate their responses to change.
Facilitating the development of a carbon neutrality strategy for her community in 2019 led to the creation of Grouville Community, Environment & Change, which promotes and implements a regenerative approach to change in her Parish and across the Island of Jersey where she lives. One that is participatory, iterative, and appropriate to the community and environment. A process to revitalise the community, Parish and natural resources.
Take a look at what Sarah's clients have to say about coaching with her in a Psychosynthesis framework.