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 More on the approach​

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An excerpt from the report on my coaching training program expands a bit more on how my perception of personal development informs this work: 

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" ...it's important to grapple with thorny emotional issues relevant to the path of pursuing what you want and being how you want to be.

In other words, working through emotional and perceptual tangles is critical for your aspirations. 

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That means not neglecting emotional issues as you pursue various missions in life. And in the other extreme, not getting caught up in endless and directionless emotional work.

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In this way, you could think of efforts to address these emotional "cruxes" as prerequisites to moving or continuing forward because they carry existential implications for the journey ahead.

 

...without taking stock of what unresolved internal things are pulling at them and affecting their decisions, [people] can will themselves forward in a way that’s not only compromised in the present day, but almost certainly sowing the seeds for significant issues to surface down the line.

 

Attempting to come to resolution on these internal cruxes at a later time can be far more expensive and less likely to be successful. "

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My approach is largely comprised of the intuitive and timely application of techniques, heuristics, methods, concepts and personal growth traditions that I've repeatedly seen work within my client work and training of other coaches.

 

Who would benefit most from this type of coaching? 

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This method of personal strategizing would be most valuable for anyone currently struggling with:

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• Interpersonal tensions between co-founders or among a management team

• Interpreting patterns and blocks (e.g. discerning reasons for aversion, gaps in self understanding, recognition of psychological and behavioral patterns)

• Adjusting in situations of increasing complexity (e.g. job promotion, work/life balance clashes, relationship entanglements)

• Approaching uncertainty in transition (e.g. starting new business/field of work, life circumstance shifts)

• Building skill development (e.g. public speaking, productivity, interpersonal ability)

• Feeling capped in terms of their growth potential (e.g. growth, opportunities)

• Sustaining motivation and clarity (e.g. current situation lacks meaning, personal goals, articulated principles and values)

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My influences

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My approach is largely comprised of the intuitive and timely application of techniques, heuristics, methods, concepts and personal growth traditions that I've repeatedly seen work within my client work and training of other coaches. 

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A non-exhaustive list of some domains and example notable figures that I draw from: 
 

• Depth-oriented Psychology & Therapy (Gendlin, Jung, Ecker, Grove)

• Continental Philosophy (Heidegger, Nietzsche)

  • Phenomenology (Merleau-Ponty, Husserl, Heidegger)

• American Pragmatism (James, Mead, Dewey)

• Internal Family Systems (and other “inner multiplicity” traditions)

• Cognitive & Emotional Developmental Theories (Piaget, Kohlberg, Kagan, Fischer)

• Coherence Therapy

• Analytical philosophy (Wittgenstein, David Lewis, Anscombe)

• Critical Theory (Rosa, Habermas)

• Sociology (Arendt, Bordieu, Beck)

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Work history before coaching

 

I'm a co-founder, former Executive Director and current board director of a project collective that launched several EA community building projects – Rethink Charity (RC).

Several projects were launched and maintained over the course of 5–6 years, with varying degrees of ‘success’ and varying degrees of my involvement.

 

Our best bet in my time at RC, in my opinion, was helping launch Rethink Priorities (RP) out of the project collective, providing ~1.5 yrs. of operations, governance and fundraising support. RP is currently a well-respected think tank with a $20M operating budget.

Among the other RC projects launched, acquired or maintained under my tenure, RC Forward, EA Giving Tuesday, the EA Hub, and the EA Survey are still in operation. RC Forward is approaching being cashflow positive largely due to a revenue generating initiative that I led the launch of prior to my departure – fiscal sponsorship for EA and non-EA projects. 

 

To briefly paint a picture of my role in all this, I was primarily responsible for piecing together fundraising across individual and institutional donors at a time when RC never had institutional support that covered even 25% of the overall budget (with the exception of Rethink Priorities). I was also heavily involved in top-level strategic planning and programs design. 
 

Projects that have since closed down are Students for High-Impact Charity (project wind-down write-up), the Local Effective Altruism Network and Rethink Grants. 

 

You can’t win them all, but these discontinued projects were important training grounds. Thanks to the support of my surrounding community, we were able to counterfactually produce projects that I believe continue to be impactful. 

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