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Greetings!

Don't miss Ann Begler's presentation on January 12!


JAN. 12 LUNCH & LEARN
A Gestalt Approach to Conflict

Approved for Continuing Education Credits from the International Coaching Federation



Human engagement is an area of focus that is very alive in today's organizations. Gestalt theory offers a perspective of the way we become engaged with each other through a natural and organic cycle. It teaches effective ways to connect, and highlights the things we do to interrupt ourselves from being engaged with each other.

Learning to pay attention to this cycle of contact provides valuable insight into the coach-client relationship and to the client's engagement, or lack of engagement, at work. This program will help strengthen your coaching relationships and create fertile ground where your clients can safely explore and learn more deeply about his or her boundaries of contact.

In this program you will:

  • Identify how the gestalt cycle of experience is applicable to the coaching relationship
  • Learn how to identify specific resistances that can emerge in the coaching relationship
  • Explore how to work with resistance
  • Examine ways in which you can help your clients manage conflicts more effectively
About the Speaker Ann L. Begler, Principal of the Begler Group, has been working in the field of mediation and conflict resolution for 30 years. She is an attorney and has advanced training in mediation, conflict resolution and gestalt therapy. Ann has developed a training, Unified Mediation, that blends a gestalt model with various forms of conflict engagement. She practiced as an attorney until 2000. For the last decade her practice has centered on mediation, conflict coaching and organizational development.


Happy New Year!

Happy New Year!

Turning the calendar to 2011 brings with it the opportunity to move into the forefront that which is most important and meaningful for you. A new year brings the energy and enthusiasm that drives the momentum to complete that which might otherwise seem impossible. It feels like an exciting time. This is an opportunity to turn ideas into action, thinking into doing, and dreams into reality. Some people now seem to finally be casting off a mantle of pessimism they have carried with them and now, at long last we are ready to successfully navigate the change that the last several years have brought. What's next for you?

When you take on a new challenge, how do you ensure completion? For most people, rarely do new years resolutions actually become achieved, and yet no one sets a goal without being hopeful of success.

So what makes the greatest difference between reaching a goal and wishful thinking? What is it that ensures realization of an idea? How do you ensure your longtime challenge is finally met? It is all about accountability, to oneself and others, and broadening your goal to include support, being championed, and having a sounding board to stay on track. Pick an accountability partner, create a mastermind group, or better still, work with a professional coach to be sure to meet your goals and experience the incredible sense and wonderful feeling that achievement brings.

Most coaches offer complimentary coaching to help you experience coaching first hand, so simply select a few coaches from the membership list of the Pittsburgh Coaches Association and share your ideas for in the moment feedback and objective and clear sighted support. You will immediately feel newly motivated and inspiration to get started.

It's a new year, a time for moving forward, now is the time.

Here's to you in 2011!

Warmly,

Maria Berdusco
President, Pittsburgh Coaches Association


FEATURE ARTICLE
One Small Change for One Big Improvement

by Tom Volkar

Change just one thing about the way you think and every area of your life will get better, especially in the area of business and career.

In business we care way too much about what others think of us.

When making really critical career decisions we often look to others for career advice. Others can't really give you the best advice. They always see things from their own perspective and through the filters of their own fears.

You'd be far better off to quit worrying about others and begin following inspirational career quotes like these.

Instead of worrying about what people say of you, why not spend time trying to accomplish something they will admire. ~ Dale Carnegie
Excuse me Mr. Carnegie but how about one step better than that? Why not accomplish something big instead of simply trying to?
Why should my happiness depend on the thoughts going on in someone else's head? ~ Emerson
The right answer is - it shouldn't. What someone else thinks, says or does, really has no bearing on your happiness unless you accept it as your truth. You are the best the very best judge of what makes you happy. You are the very best source of wisdom for your own career and life.

You, your thoughts, your choices and your actions determine your results. There is a special livelihood calling you that you can turn into a business and make it successful because of your unique core makeup and life experience.
Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind. ~ Dr. Seuss
The opinion of others only counts if you decide to make it part of your identity. Claim your freedom from the tyranny of outside opinion. Declare your freedom today.

Tom Volkar has coached hundreds of small business owners and self-employed professionals since 1998. He frequently blogs on issues facing the self-employed at DelightfulWork.com and can be found online at CoreU.com, Facebook and Twitter.


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