Is it still worth going to the "trouble" of further training to become a systemic-integral coach before I retire (in 3 years)? I asked Marc Kaltenhaeuser the same question during our first clarifying phone call. His answer was: You can still work! That sounded encouraging and was right for me! "Consistent" is also one of the many key words that I take away from the training I have now successfully completed.
In my professional context, I have management responsibility and was able to gain a wide range of field experience in the psychiatric care landscape. The training has helped me immensely - also personally, for example, in terms of how I will "say goodbye" to my professional context and what a change of role into a new phase of life with new, interesting options as a coach might look like.
In our training group, I met women and men, young and older, with different goals and life plans, also with regard to working as a coach. In the practice groups, we developed basic coaching skills in a spirit of mutual trust and learning from each other; those with previous coaching experience also expanded their skills. We all gained methodological and process confidence and practiced "fine-tuning".
Marc Kaltenhaeuser offers further training in which he is a trainer and teacher, also a "reality waiter" and demonstrating coach and role model in a relaxed, unagitated manner. He also lives what he teaches in the spirit of his own Institute for Mental Health Management: (from my subjective perspective)
Practicing mindfulness throughout your life - like brushing your teeth - focused and broad-minded, being on the move (doing sport if possible 😉), being an "integrated adult who has access to their resources and can live their life in a healthy and balanced way in any context", having an eye and a sense of their own timeline, acting based on values, being psychologically flexible and resilient in the face of life's storms.
You have also opened the door to our understanding of theory, to the seemingly infinite breadth of knowledge, as well as to the depth of understanding; in my view, this is essential for professional coaching. You have probably read almost everything that is relevant, know the representatives of the "guild" and have given us valuable tips for our further path as learning coaches. Your flipcharts, the backdrop to our module weekends - legendary! The training - highly recommended!!!
Rita Klingele, Freiburg
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