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Guest Podcast

People of the Way – Claire Bamberg with Matt McGee

People of the Way – Claire Bamberg with Matt McGee *Click the play button above to listen to the podcast Founder of Potentials, Claire Bamberg, was a guest on “The Last Service”, which is a Podcast airing for the first time on Feb. 6th. Her piece is about congregations in transition and the many choices they are making about their futures . We hope you find this information inspiring and challenging. In this episode, Claire

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Coaching

What Is The Difference Between Coaching & Psychotherapy?

What Is The Difference Between Coaching & Psychotherapy? As one of those individuals who has been blessed to have achieved a credentialed status in both disciplines/vocations, I (Claire) find this question an important one to answer. Distinguishing between the two “hats†best begins with the similarities: good listening, questions, an attunement to the circumstances of the client, and a desire to “helpâ€, to be a positive and empowering presence in the client’s life. The differences

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Coaching

What Is The Difference Between Coaching & Consulting?

What Is The Difference Between Coaching & Consulting? Professional coaching mines the untapped potential inside a group, team, or individual. A coaching session with a professionally trained coach will feel like a comfortable, seamless conversation in which you discover something about yourself or your situation about which you were not aware. Thoughtful responses to the coach’s carefully constructed and well-timed questions and silences hold space for the evoking of this new knowing. This new awareness,

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Coaching

What Makes A Coach “Good?”

What Makes A Coach “Good?†Katherine May once wrote, “Our sense of enchantment is not triggered only by grand things; the sublime is not hiding in distant landscapes. The awe-inspiring, the numinous, is all around us, all the time. It is transformed by our deliberate attention.†When we think about the very best coaching, it begins with attention, an awareness of ourselves, our bodies, our space, our interactions, our senses – all of it. And

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Book Review

Book Review – The 6 Types of Working Genius

Book Review – The 6 Types of Working Genius: A Better Way to Understand Your Gifts, Your Frustrations, and Your Team The 6 Types of Working Genius: A Better Way to Understand Your Gifts, Your Frustrations, and Your TeamPatrick LencioniMatt Holt Books: Dallas, TX228 pages  Patrick Lencioni’s books have become staples of business leadership. In his latest book, The 6 Types of Working Genius, Lencioni and his colleagues from The Table Group get to the

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Newsletters

September 2023: Launching Potential

Launching – What We Hope To Bring Into The World And Why po·ten·tial: [pəˈten(t)SH(É™)l/] Adj.  1. having or showing the capacity to become or develop into something in the future. Noun 1. latent qualities or abilities that may be developed and lead to future success or usefulness. In her poem “To Be of Use,†Marge Piercy reflects on objects in a museum, items that once were a part of some culture’s daily life many years ago. She

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