The Integral Heart

Finding a qualified, experienced, and spiritually awake coach is one of the best things you can do for your personal, professional, and/or spiritual development. Unlike a therapist or spiritual teacher, a coach is an experienced peer, a generalist whose primary role is to facilitate your awareness, balance, and ability to meet key challenges in your life. A coach helps you create “a life that works.”

What is an Integral coach? Like a conventional life-coach, an Integral coach is a professional whose service is designed to maximize your performance and fulfillment in all areas of life. Conventional coaching usually focuses on work, career, relationships, money, wellness, and spirituality, but an Integral coach holds a uniquely integrated perspective and can act as a trusted partner on the road to higher development, success, and self-actualization.

An Integral coach is a skilled listener, trained to customize an individuated approach to your goals and needs. He empowers you to tap into—and act upon—innate sources of intelligence, creativity, and strength. A coach’s function is to support you in the process of discovering and cultivating the skills and resources that you already possess. However, unlike a conventional coach, an Integral coach is oriented towards “2nd-tier” (and even “3rd tier”) goals. These higher tiers of development denote a "momentous leap of meaning" whereby fear-based needs are replaced by being-based needs. This requires a radically more inclusive stance—one that honors the legitimate aspirations of the ego, but also goes significantly beyond them. A 2nd-tier or Integral approach to self-development serves both the individual and the greater whole.

Integral Evolutionary Coaching is an emerging field that’s unique because the coach uses the AQAL Integral map of human development—the most comprehensive and far-reaching map available at this time—to help you navigate the process of self-actualization and self-realization. An Integral approach to coaching accesses multiple methods and techniques, but enfolds them in a framework oriented toward “2nd-tier” and even “3rd-tier” levels of awareness. Moreover, an Integral Evolutionary Coach strives to embody this higher consciousness in their own lifestyle and very presence—to truly “walk their talk,” through their Integral Life Practice and other engagements. They relate to the client with authentic awareness and care, and evoke a similar awareness and care, as well as meaningful effectiveness in the world, in service of the highest good.