What is Ontological Coaching?

Our purpose is to cultivate and nurture transformative change through ontological, ecological, and mindfulness coaching.

Coaching through ontology means coaching “ways of being” by cultivating a nuanced understanding of the dominant cultural memes, and the underlying, non-linear and holistic processes that shape our world.

By “world” we mean a cultural-biological and linguistic space articulated through meaningful relationships, self-interpretations, lifestyles, values, and changing patterns of cohabitation.

We can transform the paradigms under which we live by recognizing the patterns and processes that shape our practices. These patterns and processes shape and structure the possibilities we have for taking action in our own lives. We can learn to more effectively transform these patterns into possibilities by taking greater responsibility in shaping our world, allowing us to achieve peace, fulfillment, and effectiveness in our individual lives.

The goal is to enrich our participation in the shaping of our world—to more authentically “own” our lives while effecting positive change.

In a mindful and authentically articulated life, we not only want to meet our material goals, but also enhance the unfolding experience, meaning, and rhythm of our lives.

We want to attune ourselves to the prevailing “moods” that imbue our individual lives, which allow us to enrich their meaning and emotional coloring.

We actively cultivate ways of being by more profoundly understanding the actions we perform through language, that is, by seeing language as more than just a set of meaningful symbols organized by codified rules of grammar.

We aim to appreciate the profound ways in which we actually make things happen with words, and thereby shape the world we live in through an ever-evolving grammar of action.

We aim to flourish emotionally, materially, and responsibly by enriching our understanding of what informs the meaningful and value-laden relationships we enact in our lives. To do so, we can cultivate expertise in understanding how a world is socially constructed and ecologically constrained.

We can enrich our participation in this process by becoming active participants, rather than passive recipients, in the shaping of our world and individual lives. “Ontological training” cultivates and sharpens our sense for the underlying processes and cultural memes that shape who we are, where we are, what we value, and how we live.

Key Concepts

• Ontology is the study of the dynamic and ever-changing conditions that make a culturally-ecologically bound space meaningful and ripe with possibilities
• “World” is not a noun, and it’s not just “reality.” We are always “world-ing” and producing meaning and possibilities for action, either passively or actively. We want to enhance our active participation in shaping a world.
• Coaching facilitates transformation in the paradigms we use to organize our lives and our values by tapping into our natural capacities and assets, while locating our ineffective habits and strategies.

To the Point:

What we do, what we think, and how we think, is conditioned by the linguistic, ecological, and cultural space in which we find ourselves.

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