TRACK C Emerging Trends

Coaching the True Nature of Relationship-Diversity

Marita Fridjohn, PCC, and Faith Fuller, Ph.D.

Friday, November 5, 2004
11:00 am–1:30 pm
Room 202

Abstract

Innovative Relationship Technology combines with practical application in this interactive session featuring tools for coaching diversity and conflict in relationships of all kinds. In order to build connections that change the world, coaches must harvest the power of diversity.

"Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances continue to exist, a wonderful living side by side can grow up, if they succeed in loving the distance between them which makes it possible for each to see the other whole against the sky."—RILKE.

Objectives

  • Participants will have a theoretical framework that will create clarity of coaching direction and interventions for coaching diversity (Lands Work and Role Theory).
  • Participants will appreciate diversity as a door to relationships mastery, rather than a recipe for conflict.
  • Coaches will gain insight into how their client's experience contributes to their personal values and world view.
Handouts

The Geography of Relationships: A Primer for Coaching The True Nature of Relationship-Diversity (This is a PDF file)

Author Bios

MARITA FRIDJHON, PCC, and FAITH FULLER Ph.D., are co-directors of The Center for Right Relationship. Over a period of 13 years of fieldwork and research, they have developed a unified field theory for relationship work. They are authors and leaders of the ICF credentialed graduate training program in Relationship Systems Coaching at The Coaches Training Institute. Innovative and successful coaches and trainers, they have worked with groups, teams, organizations, partnerships and couples all over the world.