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Tuesday, September 29, 2009
Time: 2:00–3:00pm Eastern / 11:00-12 noon Pacific
Central Europe: +6 from Eastern, UK: BST +5 from Eastern
Australia: +14 from Eastern
Guest: Julio Olalla, MCC
Host: Vikki Brock, Ph.D., MCC
Topic: A Live Interview and Conversation with Coaching Masters
Please join us at the Coaching Commons for an unprecedented interview and conversation with masterful coach Julio Olalla and guest host, Vikki Brock.
Vikki is the Coaching Commons team lead for the Hall of Fame and Julio is the most recent inductee into the Coaching Hall of Fame. You will be treated to Vikki’s elegant facilitation and insightful questions for Julio as they explore origins, influencers, current and future coaching issues.
About Julio:
Julio Olalla, founder and president of The Newfield Network, is a master at generating learning environments that establish the trust, safety, respect, and well-being that accelerate the potential for new thinking and action. For more than 30 years, he has trained over 50,000 individuals and worked with more than 300 organizations and government leaders to challenge traditional thinking and create better teams and stronger leaders that can responsibly navigate uncertainty and turbulence.
Originally a lawyer in the Chilean government, Julio and his family made their way to the United States after the September 1973 Chilean coup d’état. By drawing upon his own dramatic life story and experiences, Julio is able to work in a deep and meaningful way with people from very diverse backgrounds and fields of study.
Julio is the author of From Knowledge to Wisdom: Essays on the Crisis in Contemporary Learning. He currently lives in Boulder, Colorado, with his family.
Read more about Julio here:
http://www.newfieldnetwork.com/New/AboutNewfield/FounderJulioOlalla/index.cfm
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I would love to join this call but will be in India. Will it be available as a download??
Yes, Zarine, all of the Uncommon Conversations have recordings posted within 24 hours after the call. Enjoy!
As a graduate of Newfield, it is always a pleasure hearing Julio speak. Thanks for taking the time to present this conversation.
Thank you so much for this call. It was so helpful to see the history of coaching and the unfolding of the discipline in this age!
The inclusiveness of ‘semantics’;'spirituality’; domains of transpersonal psychology; and other disciplines/domains; in Julio’s thoughts about coaching paves the way to a more complete/rich approach to coaching.
Pragmatically as a practitioner, given that many of us working as coaches, may be ‘restrained’ to work within a ‘timeframe’ in each coaching session (typically between 45 – 90 minutes per coaching session), and that ontological coaching approach supports ‘completeness/richness’ and may take longer time to get to the ‘completeness/richness’ (correct me if I have misinterpreted); what are your thoughts on how long a coaching session should last – until achievement of ‘completeness/richness’?
Billy C H Teoh
Malaysia.
To Billy: yes and no…I have experienced profound insights in minutes, from Julio’s masterful coaching. What I learned in this phenomenal program is how rapidly one can transform when all 3 aspects of “being’ are engaged in a coaching conversation. Such conversations can bypass the time-consuming process of “reason,” which often traps the person within their assessments of right, wrong and “doing.” I find my clients are amazed with how quickly they can make changes that have been haunting them through years of unfulfilled “action plans” they resisted because of logical perspective. And yes, sometimes a person’s conversation takes time to unfold – and this in itself is part of learning to shift one’s perspectice of results. Results occur as learning unfolds, so each session is a step towards that. What has been a learning experience for me as a coach, is allowing a session to end with the person in their pain, in a way that supports them to experience a “breakdown” without having a functional breakdown!
Each client has their own process, so part of ontological coaching is about reaching the person at a soul level, instead of just their mind.
I coach financial advisors, who start from a place of results and ROI. They love it!
This can be done more quickly than you think, so to speak, and requires some practice. If you would like to continue this conversation, I welcome it.
I knew Julio many years ago when I received my first training a a coach. I am totally in concordance with his ideas. In fact, I will publish in two weeks in the 2009 issue of the International Journal of Coaching in Organizations an article that expands this.
Peace always,
Alberto (Head of the Center for Executive Coaching, Mexico)