Evolutionary Coaching: A Values Based Approach to Unleashing Human Potential

Evolutionary coaching is also about performance, but performance with a big “P”. Performance with a big “P” is about human emergence; not just helping people become more proficient at what they do but helping them to participate in their own evolution and get better at being as well as doing. This is the domain of the leadership coach, the executiv

The process of breaking down the bars of the prison you have constructed for yourself is called individuation. The process of rebuilding your life to reflect your unique self is called self-actualisation. Fully embodying your unique self so you can discover your full potential is called self-realisation.

Your job as an evolutionary coach is to help your clients break down the bars of the prisons they have constructed for themselves so they can unmask their false selves, discover who they really are, and develop the gifts and talents of their unique selves. This is how you help your clients embark on the journey towards full human emergence.

Adaptability: The ability to take things in your stride—maintain internal stability and external equilibrium when your internal and external environment changes. This implies being able to manage your emotions and taking care of your body in your framework of existence so you can stay fit and healthy. Emergent learning: The ability to learn by tria

An evolutionary coach needs to instill five qualities in their clients to support them on the journey to full self-realisation—adaptability, emergent learning, the ability to bond, the ability to cooperate and the ability to manage complexity.12 These qualities are the basic requirements for evolution. Without these qualities, evolution could never

There are seven stages of psychological development, these are: surviving, conforming, differentiating, individuating, self-actualising, integrating and serving.

Often the choices we are faced with are challenging: They involve choosing between competing needs—between our growth needs and our safety needs.

Viktor Frankl noticed while he was a prisoner in a Nazi concentration camp that those who saw meaning in life, or who gave it meaning, demonstrated a surprising degree of strength and resistance. Finding this meaning proved to be of decisive survival value.3

Happiness, meaning and fulfilment are not synonymous. What makes us happy is the satisfaction of our ego’s needs, and what gives our life meaning and fulfilment is the satisfaction of our soul’s needs.