From Inner Critic to Inner Authority
Changing Your Relationship with the Inner Critic Changes your Relationship to Your Life
Gain healthy and healing perspectives + tools + resources + support. Deepen Presence.
Course Description
By this point in the curriculum, you have become knowledgeable about how the personality structure works and how it obstructs you and your clients from experiencing and expressing Truer Nature. Now you will refine your understanding of one of the most pivotal, dominant, and, when uninterrupted, most potentially damaging aspects of the personality. As you engage in your own development, you’ll also learn powerful ways to help your clients shift their relationship to the Inner Critic, and embrace more of their authentic knowing.
There’s no question. How each of us experiences ourselves is related intimately to the amount of internal life space the Inner Critic takes! While it can show up under any and all circumstances in life, the Inner Critic becomes particularly activated and accelerated when an individual is on the path of real change and growth.
When the relationship to the Inner Critic is changed, restful freedom from repetitious mental, emotional and somatic stories that present as obstacles result, allowing more room for what the soul and heart are dying to experience. You’ll discover that working with the Inner Critic offers a potent and dynamic portal for healing and the emergence of greater consciousness.
Format
This course is presented in a distance learning format, and includes six phone sessions of 1 ½ hours each.
Each session is formatted for engaged learning and inquiry: lecture, coaching demos, occasional break-out sessions, and group inquiry. Because the activity of the Inner Critic can be experienced as a personal dynamic unshared by others, it is important to hear about the experiences of others.
Between sessions, you’ll have readings and discovery processes (which you can use with your clients) to help you prepare for and integrate your learning. You’ll meet with rotating learning partners to review and practice coaching. A private online forum will connect you with your peers to share your insights and ask questions. You can expect to invest an additional two to three hours per week outside of class time.
You will have a chance to immediately use this material with your Deep Coaching fieldwork clients (as appropriate to the situation, of course).
CEUs
9 CEUs will be awarded for this course by the ICF and by CBBS.
Outcomes of the Course
Within the Three Fundamental Threads of Deep Coaching, you will expand your ability to:
1) Understanding the Human Condition
- Understand the pivotal role of the Inner Critic/Superego in the personality structure, and within the Essence-Personality dynamic;
- Recognize the various roles of the uninterrupted Inner Critic in relationship to the personality structure;
- Distinguish ways that the Inner Critic operates differently in the 9 Enneagram personality structures.
2) Self-knowledge and self-embracing of the coach
- Become increasingly sensitized to how the unrecognized or uninterrupted Inner Critic manages and limits your own breadth of experience as a human and as a coach;
- Experience the relationship and overlay between different emotional states, the dominant affects and Inner Critic’s activities;
- Notice what brings you into contact with your own inner authority and true guidance.
3) The Coaching Field
- Explore your various roles in the coaching relationship as you support your client in untangling from the Inner Critic activity;
- Help your clients develop their radar for ways that the Inner Critic is expressed through the various channels of their experience;
- Learn and practice numerous presence-based strategies that provide your clients with effective means of working with the Inner Critic;
- Work with the consciousness and subtleties of the inner dynamics and learn the processes through which individuals move into contact with their more authentic nature;
- Support your clients in discovering the unexpected and rare gems that can lie beneath the noise.
Materials
- a chapter from Deep Living
- discovery processes/worksheets for use with your clients
