Evolutionary Coaching: A Values Based Approach to Unleashing Human Potential

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.

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

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.

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

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

How far you advance with your psychological evolution (the emergence of your soul) before you die depends on many factors, the most important being the extent to which the parental programming and cultural conditioning you receive in your formative years supports or hinders your psychological growth.

Whatever needs we have that we have not been able to satisfy, or whatever needs we require to help us remain aligned and comfortable in ourselves and with those around us, is what we value. Thus our values are always a reflection of our needs. Our values are an expression of what is missing in our lives and what we require in our lives to remain in

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

the meaning of these four words, growth, development, emergence and self-realisation in a human context. • Growth suggests progression: in particular, the continuing ability to demonstrate increasingly higher levels of maturity. • Development suggests learning: in particular, staged learning where each new stage expands on, and adds value, to what