Can You Talk Me Off the Ledge?

Can You Talk Me Off the Ledge?

The joys of being best friends with a coach. Ann and Ursula got together recently to talk about the impact both being coaches has had on their personal relationship. ANN: Oh my goodness, I can’t imagine life without this woman! What do people do who don’t have a coach...
Envy, Love and Consciousness

Envy, Love and Consciousness

A while ago I realized that — somewhat more often than I’d like to admit — I was having what we at BEabove call a “below the line” automatic response to other people’s good fortune. In other words, I was flat out envious when I...

There’s Plenty of Room in the Sandbox

It just so happens that Ursula I get asked a lot about authors, books, and yes, other programs dealing with neuroscience and coaching. Over the years, we’ve worked to be both thoughtful and gracious in our response, even though the little girl inside is...

Neuroplasticity, Politeness and Our Habitual Response

  An interesting thing happened to me on my way home from a recent trip. I was in the Oslo airport, repacking my things after going through security. An older man, quite rotund, seemed to be positioning himself as close to me as he could. When I moved to create a...

Trust Your Own Goodness

Hat’s off to all of us who are authentically on the growth and development journey. We become adept at acknowledging our dark sides, asking for feedback, and exploring all the shadows of our complicated souls. We know we are works in progress with much yet to...

Life Purpose: elusive or obvious?

I’ve knocked around the coaching world for nigh-on 15 years now, and, as such, have taught many classes on life purpose, taken people through endless guided visualizations, had numerous coaching sessions on the topic where we created cumbrous statements rich...

The Future of Coaching

Check out this short video interview with Ann musing about the neuroscience of coaching  — and also pondering the future of the field (which touches on why we developed our Human Consciousness Architecture Model). Click here for video...

Integration, the power of being Co-Active in work and life

By Ann Betz and Karen Kimsey-House We live in a world of both profound separation and deep longing for connection. Betz and Kimsey-House explore not only the historical and spiritual history of our disconnection and its cost to individual and societal well-being, but...