“A pleasure to witness the joy that your workshop created.” Hult Ashridge Relational Coaching Conference feedback for Helena Territt
Ashridge Hult Business School is a dynamic multicultural community that educates, inspires, and connects some of the world’s most forward-thinking business talent. The 7th Annual Relational Coaching Conference covered the theme of identity within the coaching relationship. From Hult Ashridge:
“We are very excited about our topic for the 2022 conference, which is identity - a sensitive and sometimes contentious aspect of how we relate to ourselves and one another. If we think of identity as something that is part ‘given', but that mostly emerges through relationship and changes in different contexts, we start to reflect on our own identities and how these identities are changing. How we see ourselves, and how others see us has a profound effect on how we show up in our lives and in our coaching.
With so much happening in this sphere, we envisage a conference that will enrich our awareness and our understanding of identity, belonging, inclusion and exclusion, projection and reputation. What personal responses and questions are emerging for our clients and for ourselves through all this? How are these shaping our own sense of identity as coaches or elsewhere in our lives?
We will look at how identity is shaped unconsciously through processes of assimilation and identification and how coaches can assume more understanding and similarity than is warranted. We will also look at how identity formation may also lead to extreme polarisation, e.g. through what Freud called the narcissism of small differences.
Starting with the personal and interpersonal, we will explore identity in its contextual, societal, and political ramifications. Can we spot issues around ‘identity’ behind profound misunderstandings, in deep conflicts and issues of inequality? Are there ways to resolve these, e.g., by thinking freshly about what our difference actually is and what we might ultimately share beyond identity and at much deeper levels?”
Helena’s workshop ‘Your Identity is in Question’
“The paradox of weirdness: The weird parts of ourselves are actually the thing that’s normal. 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.” (Tyler Cowen)
Masking, code-switching, fitting in, gravitas, flexing your style. We all do it. But are you doing it too much, not enough, or just right? How do you know?
After 40 years of a successful life and many years as a senior HR practitioner and coach, Helena was diagnosed with ADHD. She discovered that her brain doesn’t work like others, her experience of existing in the world is not ‘typical’.
This workshop will be an adventure into the parts of yourself that you keep hidden. How do you experience the world and who is your authentic self anyway? Are you normal?
Feedback:
“Thank you so much for your presence at the conference, Helena. It’s a pleasure to witness the joy that your workshop created.”
Hult Ashridge (Public LinkedIn Post)
