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Jericho Partners - Leadership Coaching: I work with two other great leadership coaches, Diane Newell and Stephen Wilson to coach leaders and leadership teams to increase their performance, resilience and flexibility.

Links to Coaching & Mentoring Resources, Magazines I enjoy, Ecopsychology, Social Change, Responsible Business & Sustainability, and Psychosynthesis.

  • Some coaching and mentoring resources you might like to try are:
    • The School of Coaching: Has some interesting case studies and research on the use of coaching in organisations.
    • The Coaching and Mentoring Network: News about the latest developments in coaching and mentoring.
    • Mentors Peer Resources: An extensive Canadian site containing a wide range of coaching and mentoring resources, articles, links and directories.
    • Mentors Forum: Looks at individual mentoring schemes as well as mentoring in general.
    • IntelliMentoring: Provides a methodology for organisations to customise their Mentoring program to their unique environment (using a set of 11 manuals/workbooks)
    • The Brightside Trust: is one of the leading educational e-mentoring providers in the UK. It is a charity working in the area of widening participation whose aim is to provide under-privileged children with the confidence and skills they need to overcome social disadvantage enabling them to reach their potential.
    • The European Mentoring & Coaching Council: Aims to promote mentoring in business, education and the community at large; sponsors the annual European Mentoring & Coaching Conference.
    • CoachU: Probably the largest of the US coach training organisations - provides a range of free resources.
    • British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy: Information on Counselling and Psychotherapy.
    • Applying solution focussed techniques in the health services.
  • Coaches and other practitioners who have interesting resources on their sites:
  • Leadership
  • Magazines
    • Resurgence: A monthly "international forum for ecological and spiritual thinking".
    • The Ecologist: Under the slogan "Rethinking basic assumptions" this excellent monthly magazine campaigns for a fairer, more sane world.
    • Fast Company: New ways of doing business, new ideas, new technology
  • DVDs
    • Werner Erhard: The real story behind est with never before seen footage of actual est seminars & uncut interviews with Werner Erhard talking about his ideas.
  • The Meaning of Life
    • Ken Wilber: read about his brief history of everything
  • Ecopsychology
    • The Ecological Footprint Calculator If every human being on the planet was American, how many earths would it take to sustain the world's current population? No? 5.4! Find out how much impact you're having by measuring your own ecological footprint.
    • Green and Away: A unique outdoor conference centre.
    • Alternative Building Company: Creators of natural buildings made from wood, clay, straw and recycled materials.
    • Feed someone for a day at no cost to you in about 5 seconds: This link takes you to the Hunger Site at the UN. All you do is click a button and somewhere in the world a hungry person gets a meal to eat, at no cost to you. The food is paid for by corporate sponsors (who gain advertising in the process because you see their logo).
    • Donate: Visit this website and sponsors will make a small donation to a variety of good causes.
    • Earth Jurisprudence: is a newly emerging field of law based on a recognition of and respect for the rights of nature. It is related to many current fields of law, including environmental law, animal rights law, rights of indigenous people, and jurisprudence. The distinctive features of Earth Jurisprudence are that it looks at law from the standpoint of the health of ecosystems and the role humans play as an integral, interdependent member of a single, comprehensive Earth community
  • Social Change
    • World Development Movement: Campaigns to tackle the root causes of poverty.
    • One World Action: Working for a world free from poverty and oppression in which strong democracies safeguard the rights of all people.
    • World Voices: "A dynamic network of students, activists, academics, personalities, artists, business executives and organisations from around the world who are passionate about exploring and demonstrating alternatives and solutions to replace our unsustainable forms of progress, wealth and power."
  • Responsible Business and Sustainability
    • RiverSimple: The purpose of RiverSimple is to move people sustainably. We will pursue our purpose by working systematically towards the elimination of the environmental impact of personal mobility. Our vision is of a future where our relationship with the car and with fossil fuels has changed dramatically, with new solutions in place for sustainable and responsible mobility. Our first project, an urban two-seater car, will be unveiled in early 2009. Powered by hydrogen fuel cells and made from carbon composites, it has been designed to achieve over 250 mpg (equivalent).
    • The Human Capitalism Campaign: Has developed a framework for action, with seven action points outlining concrete commitments business leaders can take to put responsible business practices at the centre of their core business operations.
    • The Natural Step: The Natural step uses science based tools to provide organisations with a logical structure for the envisioning, organisation and assessment of sustainability initiatives within businesses and communities.
  • Psychosynthesis: Psychosynthesis is an approach to human development where the focus is to achieve a synthesis, a coming together, of the various parts of an individual's personality into a more cohesive self. It has had a profound impact on the human potential movement and its models and philosophy find ready application in coaching and mentoring. Indeed, the mentoring model presented on this site is derived from a Psychosynthesis right relations model.
    • The Institute of Psychosynthesis: was founded 1973 by Joan and Roger Evans under the personal guidance and sponsorship of Roberto Assagioli to develop the principles and practice of Psychosynthesis in the UK. I trained there 20 years ago and what I learned there is a continuing inspiration in my life and in my work.
    • Psychosynthesis: A site provided as a service to the Psychosynthesis community.
    • Association for the Advancement of Psychosynthesis: a professional organizationdedicated to the dissemination of the ideas and spirit of psychosynthesis throughout the world.
    • Will Parfitt: Psychosynthesis and Kabbalah courses and resources.
 
 
 
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