THE FIRST “POLITICAL COACHING” WORKSHOP

I have been wanting to do a workshop on Politics, Political Coaching, and/or Political Change Processes. So I’ve been looking for opportunities. I had the first one last September in Mauritius when Sandra Vijoen set up a presentation on Self-Actualizing Leadership and invited key political leaders as well as heads of various business organizations. Then last week in Manila Philippines, we had our very first Political Coaching Workshop. It was a one-day “training” (or semi-training) on this subject.

First we had to define politics which is probably mis-understood by 99.9 percent of the world’s population. So we began by de-mystifying the term and the reference. Contrary to what most people think, politics is people and if people, then relationships. Politics speaks about how we get along (or don’t get along) with each other. It’s about how we manage our conversations, decisions, resource, and organize ourselves into groups.