…Artistic discovery of yourself leads to a new discovery of your work and life…

Composition work in dialogical approach

• Do you want to work with art in your coaching practice?
• Do you have an artistic side in yourself?
• Do you want to use a scientific model with international recognition?
• Are you interested in work with leaders in coaching?

…Magic lies in the state of mind of the artist (Trungpa)

Method of dialogical coaching inspired by art and by a scientific theory of the Dialogical Self. A person is invited to take the position of an artist and to compose his/her own self.

...Self as an artistic project

Composition work allows exploring relations within the self (between different aspects of the self like conflict between dreamer and pragmatic position or artistic and business position, and relations with others, such as your colleagues, friends, and family members.

Pablo Picasso once said: “Every child is an artist.  The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up.”
I would like to add to this sublime observation, my own experience of dreaming.
Both in pleasant and even in unpleasant dreams, we are depicting significant parts of our lives,
in a way that express the artist in ourselves. It is precisely this position of “I as artistic”
that we use, consciously or unconsciously, in order to give form to our lives.

Hubert Hermans

…. Coaching becomes an art….

It is about discovering potential and richness of one’s self including the variety of emotions and sides of the self and using this potential in one’s work and life. A person works with a multiplicity of I –positions, for example, I as leader, I as spiritual, I as sad, I as anxious, I as enjoyer of life, I as strong. Contradictive and conflicting positions receive space in the same composition and a person can search for a constructive way to deal with the tensions between them.

…Art has unifying impact… (Hermans, Hermans-Konopka 2010)

Work with composition in coaching has been described in the book: Dialogical Self Theory: Positioning and counter-positioning in globalizing society, published by Cambridge University Press in 2010, written by Hubert Hermans and Agnieszka Hermans-Konopka.

The method has been introduced in coaching for leaders and professionals. It is a creative way to work with complexity of leadership as depicted in the model of dialogical leadership (Rens van Loon)

.. Leadership as an artistic project…