ABSTRACT
In Chapter 12, I suggested that there have been three key areas of theoretical development since Assagioli ‘s day which are most important in terms of how psychosynthesis is now taken forwards: the systemic perspective, the developmental perspective and the somatic perspective. I am sometimes asked whether neuroscience might be added to these, and my answer is invariably a qualified ‘no’, but that we do need to be aware of what neuroscience and neuropsychology are telling us that might be useful to leadership coaching. What I have noticed in many coaching circles is that people have heard of neuroscience and may have gained some useful insights or techniques from some source or seminar which have enhanced their work, but they don’t really understand where it fits in. In many ways, this reminds me of the excitement around NLP in the 1980s, and I also see some of the same risks (mainly of introjection) that accompanied that. So last year I set out to research and unpack what neuroscience and neuropsychology have to offer coaching, but very much from a psycho-spiritual perspective. The text of this chapter is an edited version of the article I wrote as a result. The sub-text here is that there is an enormous amount of value to come from this field, but that I’m not willing to accept enthusiastic neuro-folk trampling over everyone else’s fields as if they didn’t exist!
