DISCOVER
ONTOLOGICAL COACHING
Ontological Coaching is specifically designed to support you to recognise, deepen and then transform your Being.
So that you can move from the deepening of Being, into a creative, expressed and free-flowing Doing. Taking on projects, tasks and designing the life you wish to lead.
Because to live a life from your beautiful and ever-radiant essence, means to Become who you already are.
Being, Doing and Becoming of Self is the triad that lets you navigate, unfold and create an integrating experience of life.
Ontological Coaching does this by inquiring into the source of who you are and how you’ve constructed your reality.
Because how you understand yourself to be, is what determines the reality you allow yourself to experience, create and lead.
It means claiming ownership of who you are, what impact you have on others and what you cannot be present, compassionate and open with.
It means understand how and why you’ve created the world around you. What things are possible in your world, and what things are not.
6 CORE CONCEPTS
Being
Essence
Context
Becoming
Doing
Shadow
You are complete and fundamental in every moment.
Being
Essence
You are made up of distinguishable qualities of Being.
You are always developing, striving and unfolding.
Becoming
Context
You constructed your reality on what you’ve learnt.
You are an active, creative and expressive Being.
Doing
Shadow
Your light over- and under-expressed creates your shadow
What is Ontology?
Ontology is the study of Being.
Ontology inquiries into the fundamental building blocks of reality, feelings, thoughts, things, identities, concepts, ideas, self, other, etc…
Who or what is essential and fundemental to the experience you are having in this moment?
Zen Buddhist call this essence “Original Face“.
Show me your original face, the face you had before your parents were born.
INtegrated Seekers
Being Self
BEING
Being is that which is in immediate and direct relationship with totality of Self, World and Other. Being lies at the centre and core of who we are, what we create and the life we lead.
Even though we are always living from the source that is our Being, the clarity and directness through which we live from being, becomes distorted and muddled.
SEEKING
What we seek, is who we become.
Seeking points to an innate wonder about life and existence. It’s a quality we can choose to follow. One that is born from, and empowered by our passion and love.
Being
Being is that which is in immediate and direct relationship with totality of Self, World and Other. Being lies at the centre and core of who we are, what we create and the life we lead.
Even though we are always living from the source that is our Being, the clarity and directness through which we live from being, becomes distorted and muddled.
Seeking
What we seek, is who we become.
Seeking points to an innate wonder about life and existence. It’s a quality we can choose to follow. One that is born from, and empowered by our passion and love.
Essence
We are made up of unique, distinguishable and ever-present qualities of Being. This is what we call our Essence.
And any distinction of Essence is a map and not the territory. Our true Essence is the full experience of life in the present moment – one that we cannot reduce to words or language.
ESSENCE
We are made up of unique, distinguishable and ever-present qualities of Being. This is what we call our Essence.
And any distinction of Essence is a map and not the territory. Our true Essence is the full experience of life in the present moment – one that we cannot reduce to words or language.
Emergent Leaders
Becoming Self
BECOMING
We are always developing, striving and unfolding. In constant flux – never still and always in relationship to our environment.
It’s a dance we find ourselves in – one oscillating between the arriving and striving.
Unfolding into who we are already are. The paradox of becoming is the movement of life.
LEADING
But who defines the direction forward? Who adjusted the course of life?
It’s that part in ourselves that takes ownership for who we are, and leadership for who we will become. Because all leadership is born from the present moment.
Becoming
We are always developing, striving and unfolding. In constant flux – never still and always in relationship to our environment.
It’s a dance we find ourselves in – one oscillating between the arriving and striving.
Unfolding into who we are already are. The paradox of becoming is the movement of life.
Leading
But who defines the direction forward? Who adjusted the course of life?
It’s that part in ourselves that takes ownership for who we are, and leadership for who we will become. Because all leadership is born from the present moment.
Context
In the self-becoming (also called self-developing) process we are only ever moving from “context” to “context”. Any context we live through creates the lens through which we see, sense, and are able to respond to the world around us with.
This enables some things, but also limits others. It’s part of this work to become aware to both, so as to choose what contexts we desire to live through.
CONTEXT
In the self-becoming (also called self-developing) process we are only ever moving from “context” to “context”. Any context we live through creates the lens through which we see, sense, and are able to respond to the world around us with.
This enables some things, but also limits others. It’s part of this work to become aware to both, so as to choose what contexts we desire to live through.
Expressed Creators
Doing Self
DOING
Life is Doing. It’s always acting, moving, creating, destroying…
Doing means interacting with the world around us. It means coming out of our shell and risking to get it wrong – because only in the doing, we do we see created change.
CREATING
In the playground of materials, opportunities, people and ideas, that surrounds us, we can shape and create.
We are creative beings in a creative universe.
Doing
Life is Doing. It’s always acting, moving, creating, destroying…
Doing means interacting with the world around us. It means coming out of our shell and risking to get it wrong – because only in the doing, we do we see created change.
Creating
In the playground of materials, opportunities, people and ideas, that surrounds us, we can shape and create.
We are creative beings in a creative universe.
Shadow
In the self-unfolding / self-de-veloping / self-becoming process we are only ever moving from “context” to “context”.
Each context we live through creates the lens through which we see, sense, and are able to respond to the world around us with.
SHADOW
In the self-unfolding / self-de-veloping / self-becoming process we are only ever moving from “context” to “context”.
Each context we live through creates the lens through which we see, sense, and are able to respond to the world around us with.
THE TRIAD OF SELF
The Self finds its centre in the overlapping of Being, Doing and Becoming. Oscillating in-between each state, learning from each and growing into each-other.
The Self strives to integrate all three states of identity/relationship/movement.
A Short History of Ontological Coaching
Ontological Coaching developed around the 1980s as a response to the deeper inquiries taking place in philosophy and the cognitive sciences. It was Heidegger who shifted the inquiry through his work “Being and Time” (1927) to the paradigm of Being.
This perspective was taken further by Humberto R. Maturana and Fernando Flores who brought the idea of “being” into the realm of professional development, cognitive biology and management theory. From this the Ontological Coaching modality developed. Inspiring various coaches and leadership trainers around the world to developed the ontological-coaching model further.
11 Weeks
of
INNER OPENING
11 weeks of ontological coaching dedicated to a clear and intentional forward movement in your life.
A space in service of realising one clear desire, while opening you up to your inner Self.
11 Months
of
LIVING FROM BEING
11 months of ontological coaching dedicated to re-discovering, trusting into and reclaiming your Essence.
To live from the core of your Being and experience the fullness of your authentic self.
