This is a short reflection about the upcoming ICF Impact Awards that will be given out at the October 2025 Converge conference in San Diego. It is sure to be an exciting time as this conference is always exciting, and the award recipients will be inspiring leaders in...

In coaching others, what are strategies to support resilience—the capacity to meet adversity with strength? We've identified a few at Gestalt Coaching (and let us keep adding what works.): 1. Be in Your "Use of Self as Coach" Get curious about your legacy narrative of...

“Mindfulness” has become a favored competency and way of being, not only in leadership training and practice but also in personal effectiveness. Such is the power of the concept that it seems to have ubiquitous desirability. Yet the concept has been around for...

An unusual phenomenon is happening as we are, for our own survival needs, being asked to engage in physical distancing (PD). Though it may feel better to say PD rather than saying social distancing, the loss of social custom(s) has significant consequences. We are...

The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice. Martin Luther King, Jr. (attributed to Theodore Parker, 1853) A disturbing event recently took place in a Starbucks, the globally trendy café, in an American city. It’s an event that reveals the...

If I am not for myself, who will be for me?If I am not for others, who am I?If not now, when?- Hillel A business client once told me she just did not have the time for the self-work that so deeply influences our actions and interactions, professionally and personally....

“You cannot feed your own soul. Connecting is food. – Sonia Nevis Sonia was a tiny woman, about 5 feet tall, but everyone who knew her thought she was always the biggest person they were lucky enough to meet. She had the kind of depth that made little children smile...

Learning and development remind me of the transformation of the butterfly and the pollination of the bumblebee. A famously humble and brilliant mentor of mine, Harrison Owen, the creator of Open Space Technology, tells us that when it comes to learning preference,...

A book must be the ax for the frozen sea within us. – Franz Kafka Now that my book, A Gestalt Coaching Primer: The Path Toward Awareness IQ, has been published, I find myself thinking of Kafka’s quote and the reasons that drove me to write this book. I ask myself if I...

EMBRACE YOUR GIFTS, ENHANCE YOUR SKILLS As identified by the Awareness IQ™ model, the gifts of presence include: being able to claim one's internal wisdom, strengths, and creativity; capturing and applying intuitive insights; the capacity for heart-based connections;...