Sarah Alexander is a coach and a mentor, guiding people worldwide through her intuitive insights to align their personal and professional lives with their Spiritual Intelligence. She works with clients privately and in the business setting and is also a Director of the coaching and consulting company PKB Achieve, a company which brings success to business owners based on a spiritual ethos and message. Her book is Spiritual Intelligence in Business: The Eight Pillars of 21st Century Business Success.
This was an amazing evening with Sarah Alexander. The room was packed and it was certainly a high vibe evening! She explained how our Spiritual Intelligence is an energy force within us. And how this energy force is constantly guiding us forward, evolving us as people and leading us to the art of effortless accomplishment in all that we do. She explored how we can tap into this energy and how to open to our intuition and inner guidance for ourselves and our coaching clients.
Sarah began the evening by contrasting and highlighting really clearly the distinctions between the traditional principles and elements of Coaching with the Spiritual Intelligence principles that contribute to coaching highlighting how and in what ways Spiritual Intelligence can make a real difference to people we work with.
This evening Sarah talked about:
How to bridge spiritual ideas and practices with coaching clients;
How to set up a powerful coaching space through intention;
How to affirm for solutions to be found;
The difference between self-improvement and self-acceptance;
The importance of focusing on the client's perfection.
Sarah highlighted the differences with how traditional coaching often draws from the masculine elements of enabling whilst Spiritual Intelligence draws from the more feminine elements of enabling and supporting deep growth and progress. Ultimately real authentic power lies not in self-improvement but on being present, embodying self-acceptance and self-compassion.
One of the practices for the evening involved working in pairs. We were invited to close our eyes and tune into your partner’s energy and intuitively sharing any messages you felt you were receiving up about the individual. We were reminded of giving any feedback in a loving and compassionate way. In the group feedback after the session it was great to hear the accuracy of many of the messages, senses and hunches that was picked up through this quiet tuning in practice.
Amongst many other values points raised during the evening Sarah shared pockets of her own spiritual practice. Particularly of interest to the group was Sarah’s spiritual connection to a higher power or source and how she requests healing for her clients. Sarah shared how she tunes into each client individually before each session a reminder of how in our busy lives how important it is to take time in preparing ourselves before and after one to one work. This point resonated with many present and raised the question of how spiritual are we allowed to be in the corporate world?
From many of the comments made it became clear that for many whilst our spiritual practices may not be explicit when proposing or contracting in the corporate world it plays a significant role on who we are being in our one to one coaching and or other interventions with clients.
Finally Sarah's closing reminded us all that at the centre and core of each human being we are all perfect and that the role of the coach is to realign the individual with that truth.
We will definately be uinviting Sarah to run a workshop on Spiritual Intelligence in Business later on in the year.
Steve Nobel
