There are numerous training schools worldwide that offer training from three months to two years. One of the oldest, with 30 years of articulated experience in more than 10 countries, is the Rafael Echeverría Ontological Coaching Schoolfounded by Echeverría and by Alicia Pizarro Dominguez.
Its different programs propose a solid conceptual training; an ethical platform that cares for the individual and emotional integrity of the participants and an ontological coaching approach based on personal and business development. Its programs are endorsed by the International Federation of Professional Ontological Coaching (FICOP).
Ontological coaching: ethical practice of the profession
In addition to academic training, the ethical exercise of the profession must be evaluated. Alicia Pizarro Dominguezontological coach and CEO of Newfield Consulting at a global level explains: “Ontological coaching bases its professional ethics on the principles of the Ontology of Language. From this proposal, the human being is conceived as a conversational agent, who acts from interpretations that emerge from the combination of language, with emotions and corporality”.
These interpretations produce results that set ethical standards of coexistence between people and between them with the ecological environment. Conversational skills, especially the power of language, are what generate the conditions in which work is done. Rafael Echeverria made a profound contribution in this matter, through his work “Ethics and ontological coaching”.
There are also associations that watch over the practice of the discipline. The International Federation of Professional Ontological Coaching (FICOP), is an organization that leads and regulates this discipline throughout the world, with the aim of disseminating, representing and accompanying educational institutions from the pillars of ethics, conceptual rigor and capacity of human and organizational transformation.
Such importance deserves ethics in the exercise of the profession, that during the month of May, FICOP celebrates the month of Ethics, with the aim of giving it a leading role. In that sense, Sandra Rozopresident of FICOP, explains: “Celebrating the month of ethics is turning something implicit in our work into something explicit and that our message is known not only by coaches but by the general public. We want to spread our ethical commitment to carry out a good professional exercise, so that society knows what the duty of our profession is and what it can expect from us”.
The power of transformation
The ontological coaching It is a profession that provokes a transformation due to the type of learning that it produces. It is a deep learning that modifies the interpretive bases of how each one operates in their world and with it, the capacity for action expands, generating new possibilities.
Pizarro Domínguez comments on how learning is achieved: “We create a diverse, multimedia learning habitat that adjusts to individual processes and offers a community for collective growth and development. Our idea is that the future ontological coach learns by transforming himself, and then advances in accompanying change in other individuals or teams from a rigorous ethical platform”.
That is why when responding to possible criticism regarding the professional quality of a coach, it is essential to analyze the original training, the institutional support that validates it and the practical, ethical and responsible exercise of the professional.
Source: Ambito
