What I’m learning & Reading

Georgina is one of the first coaches globally to receive the ICF Advanced Certification in Team Coaching (ACTC), and she's been at the forefront of establishing team coaching as its own professional discipline. Her work is grounded in the belief that teams—not just individual leaders—are the real drivers of lasting organizational change.

What draws me to this training is the focus on emergent coaching: learning to work with what's actually happening in the room, in real time, even when tensions rise. Rather than relying solely on workshops or structured facilitation, this approach taps into the group's potential as it unfolds. Georgina's methodology integrates systemic thinking, Gestalt, and Transactional Analysis to help coaches hold space for polarities, navigate group dynamics, and stand steady when the heat rises around issues that matter deeply to teams. Her book, Mastering the Art of Team Coaching, has become essential reading in the field for anyone working to unlock the collective intelligence and coordinated power that teams often leave untapped.

Through this diploma program, I'm learning how to coach teams toward greater collective awareness, shared meaning-making, and accountability by helping organizations work through challenges that once felt intractable and building the kind of collaborative leadership our world needs.

The book moves through shock, confusion, anger, tenderness, and the moments when grief softens just enough for breath to return. It doesn't try to tidy anything up. Instead, it honors the rawness of love, the disorientation of losing someone central to your life, and the quiet courage it takes to keep living in the aftermath.

This work stands on its own. It's a companion for anyone navigating heartbreak, offering language for an experience that often feels impossible to name. Its honesty reminds us that grief isn't a problem to solve but a terrain to move through with care, patience, and compassion.

Ingrid is a recognized leader in this space, offering an IEA-Accredited trauma-informed Enneagram coaching certificate and teaching internationally on the intersection of the Enneagram, developmental trauma, and psychospiritual transformation.

Her approach explores how childhood attachment wounds and early relational patterns show up in the Enneagram types—not as fixed personality boxes, but as survival strategies that once protected us and now shape how we experience ourselves, our relationships, and our capacity for regulation. Drawing on NARM, Ingrid's work looks at how developmental trauma impacts the nervous system, our sense of identity, and our ability to connect authentically with others. She teaches coaches and helps professionals to recognize the unconscious patterns of disconnection that live in the body and keep people stuck in outdated ways of being.

What makes this training so powerful is its somatic and relational focus.

This work emphasizes psychological safety, embodied awareness, and the integration of all three centers of intelligence (head, heart, gut) as pathways to healing and presence.

Through this study, I'm learning to support executive transformation at a deeper level by helping leaders move beyond performance-driven patterns and reconnect with their authentic capacity for connection, vulnerability, and wise action.

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The book doesn't just walk through the crash itself, it reveals a nation caught up in momentum, denial, and the belief that growth would never end. You see the human behaviors behind the headlines: overconfidence, emotional contagion, fear of scarcity, and the way people hold onto certainty even when everything beneath them is shifting.

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I see these same patterns show up in my coaching work. Leaders get swept into momentum, teams operate on unspoken assumptions, and organizations normalize at an unsustainable pace until something forces a reckoning. The lessons from 1929 remind me that self-awareness, emotional steadiness, and humility aren't soft skills—they're what keep people and systems from tipping into crisis.

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Blake breaks down the science of embodied intelligence—how stress, emotion, intuition, and learning all live in the nervous system. Real change, she argues, happens when people tune into physical signals and sensations rather than relying on logic alone.

For my coaching practice, this is essential. I notice that leaders often operate from the neck up, pushing through tension or emotion without noticing what their bodies are telling them. Embodied coaching opens the door to sustainable change by helping my clients pause, regulate, and make decisions from a grounded place. This book reinforces why somatic awareness transforms not just the individual but the system around them.

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Brown looks at how we can root into inner strength instead of performance, perfection, or external validation. Through stories and research, she offers language for emotional resilience, wholehearted leadership, and the courage it takes to face uncomfortable truths.

These themes show up constantly in my work. When the leaders I work with build their decisions on strong internal ground rather than fear or over-functioning, they show up with clarity and steadiness for their teams. Brown's insights help me guide clients toward vulnerability, emotional honesty, and the kind of brave conversations that actually move relationships and organizations forward.

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The book weaves together science, culture, and personal stories to explain why experiences of wonder, beauty, and connection leave lasting marks on memory, stress levels, and emotional well-being. Awe isn't a rare event, he argues, rather it's a practice available in everyday life.

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In my coaching, awe can expand what my clients believe is possible. It softens rigid thinking, rebuilds perspective, and restores the creativity needed for meaningful change. Leaders who access awe make wiser decisions, connect more deeply with others, and navigate complexity with a grounded sense of possibility. The book is a refreshing reminder that transformation isn't always about effort—sometimes it's about opening up.

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