As an Integral Business Coach (DBVC), certified by an ICF- and IOBC-accredited Coaching Academy (Coaching Center Berlin https://coachingcenterberlin.de/coaching-methoden-angebote-ausbildung/coachingausbildung/), I follow the International Coaching Federation’s understanding of coaching as partnering with clients in a thought-provoking and creative process that inspires them to maximize their personal and professional potential.
Using empirically proven methods, informed by international psychological and organisational research, I help leaders reflect their own role, agenda, constraints and opportunities, in light of their unique cultural and institutional contexts, personal values and strengths, unraveling what hinders and what enables them to realise their full potential and to build resilience in increasingly strained political environments and crisis-ridden futures.
Having been certified by the ICF-accredited Coaching Center Berlin as an Integral Coach, I would like to offer some additional information on the underlying quality assurance and key features of the International Coaching Federation as well as the principles and approach of Integral Coaching.
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Integral Business Coaching is an approach to coaching that looks at a person and their work as a whole system, rather than focusing only on goals, performance, or behavior.
It combines business coaching with an “integral” perspective—meaning it integrates multiple dimensions of human experience: mindset, emotions, behavior, relationships, and context. At its heart, Integral Business Coaching says: You can’t sustainably change business results without addressing the whole person behind those results.
The approach is strongly influenced by Ken Wilber’s Integral Theory, especially the idea that reality can be viewed from multiple perspectives and should try to consider all dimensions of a situation or goal. This effort to consider the whole complexity of reality can be helped by the so-called four-quadrant model:
Instead of only asking “What’s your goal?” it also explores:
In order to help reduce blind spots, the coach helps clients:
The integral approach focuses on thinking differently.
Because how you feel and embody leadership affects performance integral coaching often includes:
Problems are not isolated—they are part of a larger system. Clients are seen within:
Sessions typically include:
In short, leadership development and executive coaching in Integral Business Coaching is characterised by the following focus and orientation: