An Exploration of Transformative Coaching: Nick Bolton from Animas Centre for Coaching

In this episode of Coaching Uncaged, our host, Coach and Positive Psychologist Yannick Jacob, is joined by Nick Bolton.
Nick is the founder and CEO of Animas Centre for Coaching, the global leader in transformative coach training.
A philosophically oriented coach and coaching supervisor, he is fascinated by how we make sense of ourselves in the world and the mental paradigms we operate from that shape our experience and actions.
Nick established Animas in 2008 to provide training in innovative approaches to coaching that built on psychological and philosophical principles. Over time, Nick developed his thinking further around transformative coaching delivering a number of presentations on philosophical perspectives on coaching and human change.
Nick has coached since the early 2000s, firstly working within the public sector through his own education and training business before becoming a personal coach, group coach, business mentor and coaching trainer.
Passionate about best practice and deepening coaching practice, Nick also established the International Centre for Coaching Supervision to provide high-quality supervision training around the world.
Coaching Uncaged Season 12, Episode 9: Nick Bolton: An Exploration of Transformative Coaching
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You guys are both transformative and transformational! How can I do what you do? Thank you very much.

[@drew42drew42huthut]

Great talk. 14:02 "... that doesn't make it transformative coaching. It's only transformational by accident." Do you think this is alway by accident? Coaching someone on performance or behavior can lead to transformational changes. The experience serves as the teacher, or the opportunity for a paradigm shift, or shift in being. The coach does not really facilitate this, and that's okay... the experience does. I don't think this is always by accident that this occurs. This can be accomplished in a non accidental way. It's not by accident that I would invite a client to a certain kind of experience, or to ask them how they could experiment with their life as to have a different experience of something. A shift can happen before by imagining, during by experiencing, or after by reflecting on the experiment or experience.