The slides used in the first session of the "coaching for emancipation" research group

1. Session 1 Coaching for Emancipation: Helping People Grow past their Socially Constructed Limits

2. Elrond: Nine companions. So be it. You shall be the fellowship of the ring. Pippin: Great! Where are we going?

3. What are we doing here??

4. Today’s Agenda

5. Who’s Who in the Group Coaching for EmancipationResearch Group

6. Overview of the Model Coaching for Emancipation

7. Initial Coaching Model: 4 Modules Development & Oppression Critical Reflection Broadened Perspectives Critical Narratives

8. Development & Oppression Development Society Oppression 2 4 3 5 6 1 1 hr Home 1 hr Home What r z questions life is asking me Mental Demands of Life Growing, as new ways of knowing & being Critique of the need to grow Becoming Me, Past Becoming Me, Future Session1

9. The Questions Life is Asking Me Coaching for Emancipation

10. From the first year in our life we face assignments to solve and questions to answer…

12. What about you?What are the main questions that life is asking you now??1. Looking at the past 3-6 months, what are the main questions that you keep thinking about?2. Are they more related to a change happening in you or change happening outside you, or both?3. Will answering these questions mean growth, or just a problem solved?

13. Mental Demands of Modern Life And all that while time is ticking, and the world is changing

15. Emotional

16. Moral

17. Kinaesthetic

18. Interpersonal

19. Intrapersonal

20. Psychosexual

21. Spiritual

22. ArtisticWhat is, in my view, the kind of development that I need? What is, the kind of development that people around me need?

23. Ideas from the group on previous questions Not to be afraid from being wrong To find a common ground to be able to talk with the other To start from what is being lived and then map it to the theories then go back to what is being lived Desire and Will to change Lead by example The basics of citizenship, rights, values, institutions, … Activities: Experiential Learning Sharing the thinking with others who are in problems How can you change adults without their consent?? Me: What about changing perspectives? Experiential: discover the other (3ashwa2eyatt we Paris)

24. Appendix (Initial Mail) What is this Research about? I believe that in societies like Egypt, a lot of who we are and how we think is defined by the social order that we have been living in. By time, we internalize these socially constructed views of "who we are", "who is the other" and "how the world operates". We loose our freedom of being to a social order that expects us to behave in a certain way. As we try to grow, we struggle to break free from such oppression, but this is so difficult as these social views have became our very own beliefs. My research question is - as a coach - how to develop a model that helps people reflect on their own belief systems, review them, affirm or change them to be more open, inclusive, adaptable and real. How to help people grow past the limitations of the social order? How to help every individual find his/her full potential as a human being, without the labels and the distortions imposed by the society? So what are we going to do? In the next 6 months, we will explore together a number of issues, approaches and methods of personal development. We will do some of this work in online sessions, and some of it in one to one coaching, individually or in small groups from within yourselves. Some of you are also working on the development of others, and might prefer to try some ideas with them. I'm sure you will enjoy all the activities, and you will find benefit in them, personally and professionally. The most important part in all this is your feedback. I will ask for your feedback in the middle and the end of the programme, and we will think together about how to make the approach better. in 2012, I am hoping to apply it in a more formal way with around 15 individuals, and use their feedback to enhance it even more. The outcome will obviously be a doctoral thesis, but more importantly, it's the shared knowledge and experience we would have lived as a group.