Our coaching supports you in achieving mastery of the mindset, practices, and habits that will enable your sustainable and consistent achievement of professional goals and wellbeing.
OUTCOMES
Wellbeing is the Gateway to Extraordinarily Positive Performance
“The impediment to action advances action. What stands in the way becomes the way.”
– MARCUS AURELIUS
THE CAUSAL LINK BETWEEN WELLBEING AND PERFORMANCE
Research reflects that leaders who cultivate their wellbeing perform better in their work, achieve more, and bring a more positive affect and energy to their leadership. This attention to individual wellbeing also has a scientifically proven positive “ripple effect” on colleagues, teams, and organizations, fostering a healthier, more engaged, and more productive work environment.
TERMINOLOGY
Stoic philosophers were observers of human behavior, mindset, and wellbeing. The Stoics’ emphasis on observation, reason, logic, and understanding cause and effect laid some of the groundwork for the development of modern scientific inquiry. The Stoics established new words to describe the sensations and feelings associated with wellbeing, including terms like Eudaimonia (flourishing), Ataraxia (stillness, equanimity), and Oikeiosis.
It is no surprise that the wisdom of Stoic philosophy finds compelling support in the research findings of positive psychology and that the terminology of the Stoics is echoed in the language of current-day science.
eudaimonia:
a deep, enduring state of flourishing achieved through continuous growth and self-improvement, and which goes beyond pleasure or fleeting hedonic happiness.
To the Stoics, eudaimonia was the ultimate goal of life and the very purpose of human existence.
The Science of Positive Psychology describes flourishing, as a state of complete wellbeing, encompassing not just the absence of negative emotions, but also the presence of positive emotions, engagement, relationships, meaning, and accomplishment.
ataraxia:
a state of tranquility and freedom from mental disturbance.
To the Stoics, ataraxia was cultivated by attending to those things that are within us – virtues, the ability to reason, and living in harmony with our nature.
This required indifference to external “disturbances” that are beyond our control, such as wealth, fame, and the pursuit of pleasure. By attaching ourselves to our inner virtues, reason, and nature, we can cultivate a sense of stillness, calm, and equanimity.
oikeiosis:
refers to the perception of something as one’s own, belonging to oneself, or as a natural extension of one’s own being.
The concept of Oikeiosis is central to Stoic ethics; seen as the foundation for both self-interest and concern for others. To the Stoics, eudaimonia was the ultimate goal of life and the very purpose of human existence. Oikeiosis speaks to the interdependent nature of our human existence and the notion of our being part of something larger than ourselves and an energy (the logos) that permeates all things and is part of us.
It calls us to ask and make a conscious decision about what parts of the concentric circles of our relationships with humanity we wish to be part of and to make part of us.
YOUR RIPPLE EFFECT
Learn to guide yourself; then guide others.
There can be no greater achievement than to live a flourishing life that positively affects the lived experience of those around you – family, friends, colleagues, community, and humankind.
Our coaching model is designed to remind you that you are worth so much more than professional success – that you are worthy of wellbeing too – and that it is not “too much” to expect of yourself that you can positively impact the lives of others.