HIGH PERFORMANCE COACHING AND LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT
Working from a systems-psychodynamic, clinical leadership and organizational role analysis perspective PNEUMA Consulting engages both our individual as well as group executive coaching clients at a depth level that extends well beyond surface dynamics. We serve corporations and executives in Ottawa,Toronto and Internationally and Virtually.
Our goal is to provide a safe confidential space where our clients can mindfully reflect on their own specific intra-personal and relational selves that are primarily driven by unconscious dynamics that very typically operate well below the surface. Working within a psychodynamic coaching domain the executive/leadership coach facilitates a pathway to what has been described as the individuals’ subconscious “inner theater” where leaders / executives are symbolically playing out in a sub-conscious manner a self-other psychological drama based on their early developmental and historical experiences and for which intra-psychic conflicts, complexes, identity and self-esteem issues, defense mechanisms, personal blind spots, prejudices, negative emotions as well as decisional weak spots can reside without any significant level of awareness. While the goal of our leadership and executive coaching programs is not to provide psychotherapy, becoming aware of and working through our sub-conscious psychological inner and relational dynamics is vital from the perspective of emerging as psychologically sophisticated, healthy and effective leaders. The ultimate goal being to create highly effective leaders, leadership teams and ultimately organizational cultures and systems that produce desirable corporate bottom line results.
Not developing personal insight can severely prejudice an emerging high potential, executive or senior leader and can significantly effect both intra as well as inter-personal functioning both in one’s personal and professional and corporate life. For the executive to remain unaware of the dynamics, conflicts, needs that drive their outward relational behavior, decision making, cognitive perceptual templates and blind spots makes effective decision making at individual / team / organizational levels, difficult and self-limiting at best and can de-rail an otherwise promising upwardly mobile career and have a negative impact on overall corporate performance.
In all of our coaching programs we assist our clients in a process of deep personal exploration and to examine how one subconsciously may have issues or challenges that can hinder being in full alignment with one’s team, division and operating structures, systems, processes and with the visions and the strategy of the organization as a whole.
In conducting our coaching and developmental work with our clients in the final analysis our goal is to through a process of challenge and deep introspection to create executives and leaders who are deeply self-reflective, have the capacity and willingness to not only be aware of their own beneath the surface dynamics but have developed the capacity to apply the same reflection in their decision making relative to professional peers, executive teams, key stakeholders and the organisation as a whole. Becoming more authentic in one’s personal, professional and corporate life, increasing one’s emotional, relational and even spiritual intelligence, being able to apply one’s mentalization strategies to others, coming to recognize one’s personal blind spots and personal limiting or de-railing negative cognitive and psycho-emotional internal schemas, being highly aware of one’s own “inner theatre” or potentially limiting cognitive / emotional / perceptual and decision making schemas and to be psychologically adaptive and resilient and to have a lifestyle that promotes a high degree of psychological health, resilience and flexibility.
Ultimately, the end goal is to be highly self-other aware, performing at one’s highest capacity and maintaining emotionally, cognitively, physically healthy while making substantial contribution to one’s organization.
PNEUMA IN-SIGHT PROGRAM
INTENSIVE RESIDENTIAL EXECUTIVE AND LEADERS RETREAT EXPERIENCES
Ottawa, Toronto, New York, Miami, London, Zurich and selected International locations.
Several times a year a very select group of executives / leaders make application to and participate in our IN-SIGHT 10 (TEN) DAY RETREAT PROGRAM. Upon completion the retreat is followed up with ongoing monthly individual coaching sessions in order to solidify and integrate the achievements and progress made in the 10 day intensive retreat. After the post retreat one (1) year coaching experience is completed, participants may engage for ongoing coaching specific to select areas of need or interest. Our intensive retreats are hold in a number of international health spa/conference centers and as a component of experience, time is set aside each day for participants to meet with a wide range of holistic healthcare practitioners or to engage in the spa’s many health enhancing activities.
As with all our executive and leadership development and coaching experiences the intent of the retreat is to focus deeply on the human side of the corporate enterprise and to engage in a deep dive into the subconscious dynamics which drive our intra-personal and inter-personal needs, internal conflicts and complexes and how they form into individual cognitive-emotional schemes that ultimately inform our professional relationships, relations with our key stakeholders, our teams, our decision making, our performance as leaders and human beings and ultimately our success or failure or de-railment as executives and senior leadership.
Similar to our individual coaching and leadership programs, all participants will initiate the program by completing a broad and in-depth battery of leadership related instruments and will meet for approximately two (2) hours prior to the initiation of the retreat program with our consulting psychologist who will discuss the evaluation results and to assist the client in developing personal, professional and corporate goals for their upcoming retreat experience.
The insight group maintains all of the same outcome goals for participants as we target in all of our executive / leadership coaching programs:
Increased ability to be personally reflective and maintain a generally non contaminated mindfulness;
Extensive depth exploration of the clients’ inner conflicts, complexes, self-other relational representations. A unique understanding that it is our historical personal experiences during our key development years and developmental stages that write a deeply embedded intra-psychic narrative in our subconscious mind that very few of us are aware of and effect our personal leadership, professional relationships, our teams, key stakeholders, our decision making and ultimately our ability to be effective leaders and executives.
To increase our emotional, relational, physical and spiritual intelligence;
To understand and to identify and resolve our subconscious blind spots; to identify and learn to manage their unconscious and conscious relational and work related triggers;
To increase our understanding of the dynamics of our personal and leadership related authenticity;
To increase our psychological adaptability, flexibility and personal resilience;
To develop the requisites of mental toughness.
In the IN-SIGHT program the intensive nature, the duration, the supportive feedback from other participants greatly enhance our personal ability to examine ourselves at a deep level and has the added advantage of allowing us to experience other participants as they explore their own unique psychological depths and personalities. The experience in itself is very emotionally empowering and in addition provides us with a new unique skill set in our professional lives as we learn how to create a psychologically sophisticated “coaching leadership style” and to develop a greater appreciation of the unique psyches, conflicts and challenges in the professionals, teams and the organizational culture in which we lead.
Dating back to the early Greek philosophers and sages the maximum of “know thyself” has and always been an almost archetypal wisdom saying suggesting that to know thyself on a very deep and honest level and to be able to put that knowledge into action whether one is a king or tradesman is an essential ingredient to personal and professional success.
Our intensive in-sight program assists participants in achieving that goal.
In addition, our program has a related goal to specifically utilize one’s hand earned self-knowledge and to know others utilizing an enhanced understanding of individual depth and relational psychology. Our ten (10) day program has an intensive format that utilizes both didactic as well as experiential methods and is highly relational in nature, participants have the opportunity of developing a deep and practical understanding of the human psychology that lurks below the surface in relation to their colleagues, teams, units and ultimately their organizations as a whole. The programs process provides new learning and insights and propels participants towards leadership excellence.
OTTAWA, TORONTO AND GLOBAL EXECUTIVE LIFE COACHING AND HIGH PERFORMANCE CONSULTING
Ottawa, Toronto and International Locations
In our life coaching and high performance consulting program we serve high performing people be they our typical executive/leadership clientele or blue chip asset professionals, professional athletes, performing artists or just anyone who wants to live a high performing life in a manner that blends the best research and methods emanating from high performance psychology, modern neuroscience, positive psychology along with ancient philosophy, spirituality and wisdom.
We work with high achievement motivated individuals with the individualized goal of increasing their performance, meeting high level personal and professional goals while concurrently investing and living a holistically enhanced healthy lifestyle.
Achieving high performance and achieving the goal of maximizing the very best version of yourself is an extremely challenging but very achievable outcome. We live in a time of extreme insecurity, non predictability, chaos and possibly overwhelming stress. We work with you to achieve your highest possible goals both professionally and within your personal life. All the while you are improving your physical, emotional and spiritual health. We believe life is about thriving not just surviving.