“Fascinating stuff” feedback for Speaker Helena Territt at International Coaching Week
Helena Territt Speaker at International Coaching Week 2022
Each year Coaching York hosts events for International Coaching Week, the annual week-long celebration and promotion of the coaching profession. The series of interactive webinars, outdoor event, and face to face conference were open to all and free for members. The 2022 series of events were under the banner of ‘Reimagining the Future’.
Helena Territt’s talk was ‘Cognitive Diversity in Coaching’.
“Is there really such a thing as a typical brain? What’s the link between neurodivergence and genius? We all practice Masking, code-switching, fitting in, gravitas, and flexing our style. But are you doing it too much, not enough, or just right? And how do you know? How do you experience the world and who is your authentic self anyway?
In this session, Helena invites us to explore The paradox of weirdness, where the ‘weird’ parts of ourselves are actually the thing that’s normal. As Tyler Cowen reminds us, people are actually weird - it’s how we are born. What’s weird is the way social conditioning makes us seem more normal than we are.
Dipping into neuroscience, the infinite mind and entrepreneurship, this workshop will be an adventure into the parts of yourself that you keep hidden.”
Public Feedback:
“I was very lucky to attend Helena Territt’s webinar on cognitive bias in coaching last week. As well as explaining why the person we’re coaching might show up differently than we expected (who are we meeting and not meeting when we are coaching?), Helena shared this wonderful image that describes the many and varied facets of cognitive bias. How our brains decide for us what to remember, how we make decisions when we need to act fast and what to do when there’s not enough meaning or too much data for us to process rationally.
Fascinating stuff, and very useful to help us coaches understand our clients - and to understand ourselves. Thanks Helena.”
Jeremy Lewis - Executive Coach and Coaching Supervisor (public post on LinkedIn)
