Mary Inglis is an independent trainer, facilitator and coach who works internationally with courses and trainings in personal and group development, leadership, creativity, and transformational change processes.
At the start of next year (January 23-27.,2017) Mary Inglis will be in Riga with her program "Process Skills Training". Organizer of this training is ICF.LV- Latvia chapter of International coach federation and invites to participate everyone from consulting area, of course also coaches. In cooperation with trainer we found out, that there will be significant work with coach core competencies, that`s why every one participant will get CCEU. Due to increase awareness of potential participants about this training, we ask Mary some questions. And now happy to offer Mary`s inspiring answers. Just read below!
How you decide to develop such kind of training- Process skills training?
-There were two things that influenced my decision to develop and offer this kind of training.
-One was that I became interested in finding a way of integrating and synthesising my experience with various approaches I have worked with and trained in – primarily Incarnational Spirituality, Process Oriented Psychology and the Transformation Game, although there have been other influences such as Gestalt, Psyschosynthesis, Constellations, Appreciative Inquiry and Technologies for Creating.
-The other was that people in the seminars and programmes I was running began asking me to teach them how to do what I was doing. I was running various Transformation Game programmes and facilitator trainings, as well as seminars on leadership, creativity, and following your calling, all of which involved a significant amount of personal process work with people. People in the programmes, many of whom were themselves workshop facilitators, coaches and counsellors, became interested in learning more about how I worked. I would refer them to the sources and approaches that have shaped and influenced my work, but they continued to be interested in my running a training myself. So in response to an invitation from a group in Kazakhstan, I ran the first Process Skills training there in February of 2013.
-Since then I have offered it 10 times, in the UK, Japan, Russia, Lithuania and Kazakhstan, and I have plans for another 3 in the next year or so.
What is your main reason to offer this training?
-Over the years I have found myself drawn to approaches that encourage us to connect with our own authenticity, to honour all aspects of ourselves, and to engage with something essential in ourselves. They enliven me, and I see how they enliven others.
-Incarnational spirituality is one of these; another is Process Oriented Psychology or Process Work, the approach pioneered by Arnold Mindell. Neither of these approaches is prescriptive; neither of them has a template of what we should do or be or look like or aim for. They are not about aligning with an image of what a spiritually or psychologically healthy person should look like. Rather, they are about aligning with an inherent self-organising sentiency or spirit that holds our patterning and that seeks to create wholeness, both internally within ourselves, and externally in relation to our environment.
- For me, it’s an exploration into what it means to be human, and what it means to be ourselves. In some ways it’s an approach to spirituality – a holistic, embodied spirituality that honours and embraces all aspects of ourselves. It’s a way of finding our own path and calling, engaging with our essential patterning and our own generative source – and bringing that into the circumstances and challenges and aspirations of our everyday lives .
What you wish for all potential participants to receive from this training?
-What I hope for participants – and what I think is of value for them – is that they will have a deeper experience of wholeness, of feeling at home with themselves, and of the value of the uniqueness and difference each person brings – and that they also expand their capacity to foster and encourage that experience in others.
-We will also of course be exploring some principles and practising some specific exercises and processes, that will hopefully expand people’s skill sets and give them conceptual and practical tools to integrate into their work.
Thank you, Mary, for your answers. They are inspiring. We are waiting for this event more and more :)!
More about Mary Inglis:
Born in Scotland, Mary grew up in Nigeria and Lesotho, and went to school and university in South Africa, where she worked as a journalist as well as training in experiential educational approaches. For the last 40 years she has lived at the Findhorn Community in Scotland, where she is a long-term faculty member of the Findhorn Foundation. The Findhorn Community is a holistic and spiritual educational centre exploring new approaches to spirituality and sustainability, as well as collaboration and partnership with all of earth’s ecologies, both physical and non-physical.
Mary is also managing director of the UK branch of InnerLinks Associates, which researches and develops Transformation Game products, programmes and trainings; these offer playful yet substantial approaches to exploring and transforming issues in life and work. Mary has been involved with the Transformation Game since its beginnings in 1976. She has designed, developed and facilitated some innovative programmes, processes and trainings, including several custom-made large group processes using the Transformation Game in conferences in the UK, Europe and Korea.
