1 Special thanks to the ICF for being a Premium Sponsor We’d love to have your support! Become a sponsor here: https://libraryofprofessionalcoaching.com/sponsor/ Become a benefactor or patron here: https://libraryofprofessionalcoaching.com/patron/ A listing of logos for all of our very generous and supportive sponsors is to be found at the end of Curated 2018. 2 CURATED 2018 EDITORS Suzi Pomerantz Suzi Pomerantz, CEO of Innovative Leadership International, LLC is an award- winning executive coach and #1 bestselling author with 25 years experience coaching leaders and teams in 200+ organizations. Suzi specializes in leadership influence, helping executives and organizations find clarity in chaos. She was among the first awarded the Master credential from the ICF 20 years ago and is a thought leader serving on several Boards. Suzi designed the LEAP Tiered Coaching Program for leadership teams, founded the Leading Coaches’ Center and co-founded the Library of Professional Coaching. http://www.InnovativeLeader.com 3 William Bergquist An international coach and consultant, professor in the fields of psychology, management and public administration, author of more than 45 books, and president of a graduate school of psychology. Dr. Bergquist consults on and writes about personal, group, organizational and societal transitions and transformations. In recent years, Bergquist has focused on the processes of organizational coaching. He is co-founder of the International Journal of Coaching in Organizations, the Library of Professional Coaching and the International Consortium for Coaching in Organizations. His graduate school (The Professional School of Psychology) offers Master and Doctoral degrees to mature, accomplished adults in both clinical and organizational psychology. 4 Charles Smith A highly-experienced Futurist, Author, and Executive Coach, current interests are in the future of democracy at all levels of society, deep dives into the nature of collaborative innovation, conscious conversations, and podcasts to engage large numbers of kindred spirits and businesses. For fifty years, he has been a personal and leadership coach and organizational behavior consultant stimulating breakthrough thinking, culture change and seemingly impossible results. A graduate of the Boston Public Latin School, Charlie holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Social Relations from Harvard College, an MBA from the Harvard Business School, a Ph.D. in Organizational Behavior from Case Western Reserve University, and a Certificate in Gestalt Methods from the Gestalt Institute of Cleveland. He was Visiting Associate Professor of Organizational Behavior at Sir George Williams University in Montreal, former President of the Harvard-Radcliffe Club of New Mexico, and Editor of Transformation Magazine published by the Library of Professional Coaching. Dr. Smith has written three books, "The Merlin Factor, Leadership and Strategic Intent” "Navigating from the Future," “Don’t be a Noddle in Someone Else’s Soup” and many articles located in the Library of Professional Coaching and Eruditio, a Journal of the World Academy of Art and Science. 5 Curated 2018 Transformations This is our fourth volume of Curated – and we have arrived at Summer (the first three volumes being dedicated to and portrayed as Fall, Winter and Spring). Summer is the season when transformations have been realized and are in full display. We have decided, in this volume, to focus on two realized transformations. The first is the multiple transformations made in the fundamental purpose and design of this library. The second is the realization of a very special digital magazine in the Library that is itself appropriately called: Transformation. The Transformations of LPC First, having celebrated our 10th Anniversary, we are reflecting back on the transformations that have taken place in planning for and producing the Library of Professional Coaching. Our value to the professional coaching community has been acknowledged by many sources and we are very pleased to have received the interpersonal and financial support of many colleagues. From the first, we have hoped to be dedicated stewards of this profession – and apparently have been successful in this regard. We are now contemplating an additional transformation that will expand our service to the professional coaching community to which we have dedicated this past decade. In bringing you in on our reflections regarding past transformations and preparing for our next transformation, we have included in this volume of Curated several of the founding LPC documents as well as pre-LPC planning documents (including a few revealing pictures of our flip chart work that came out of our early sessions. We hope that you find our transformations to be of interest and enlightening in terms of your own informed support for our work. Transformation; A Quarterly Road Map Our second notion about transformation comes directly from one of the most informative and thought-provoking digital magazines to be found inside LPC. Inspired and guided skillfully by our dear colleague, Charlie Smith, Transformation has for the past six years been a source of provocative ideas regarding not just the world of professional coaching, but also the broader global challenges 6 we face in the 21st Century. Often being viewed from far out in space, our world and our humanity are assessed by Charlie and his intellectual colleagues though multi-disciplinary lenses that lead not just to new perspectives but also critical actions. In this volume of Curated, you are being blessed with a rich sampling of the essays in Transformation that provide these perspectives and proposed actions. Enjoy, learn and engage the world in new (transformative) ways. We have taken one further step in presenting (and celebrating) this distinctive digital magazine. There is no way in which Transformation can be understood without a fuller appreciation of the head and heart of Charles Smith We have asked, therefore, for Kathryn Smith (Charlie’s wife and life-long help mate) to reflect on life with Charlie. Her own perspectives are amplified by comments offered by others in Charlie’s life. We have also asked Charlie to provide a new introduction about Transformation for this volume, as well as producing a new essay concerning a theory of transformation. We end this section of Curated 2018 where we began – with the wisdom and vision of Charles Smith. We conclude with an extended essay published during one of our first years of operation (2011). It is a comprehensive statement regarding Charlie’s “Merlin Factor.” (one of the major organizing themes in Charlie’s body of work). So . enjoy, learn and engage our contemporary world with an added appreciation for the miraculous world in which Charles Smith dwells. William Bergquist Suzi Pomerantz Co-Curators The Library of Professional Coaching . 7 Curated 2018 Table of Contents Section One: The Transformations of LPC Bergquist and Pomerantz Page 12 The Five Transformations of LPC Section Two: Transformation: A Quarterly Road Map CE Smith Page 29 Transformation: Introduction CE Smith Page 33 A Theory of What Transforms KG Smith Page 37 Life with a Transformational Coach CE Smith Page 40 Overview of Transformation: A Quarterly Road Map White and CE Smith Page 42 Bringing the Overview Effect Down to Earth (Issue 6) Norris Page 53 The Silence Behind the Words (Issue 13) Berlonghi Page 57 Generating Balance (Issue 10) Clarke Page 62 The Invulnerability of Being Vulnerable (Issue 2) Glaser Page 70 Miracles do Happen! (Issue 10) Zweifel Page 82 How to Expand (Issue 12) J Smith Page 87 Sanity? (Issue 11) 8 Turnbull Page 92 My Story (Issue 13) Friedman Page 96 The Choice-Making Theory of Consciousness (Issue 13) Barthelemy Page 100 Speak from the Soul, Hear from the Heart (Issue 13) Hack Page 102 The Quandary and the Importance of Identity (Issue 12) CE Smith Page 105 Space & Identity Expansion (Issue 12) Oshry Page 117 Encounters with the Other (Issue 13) CE Smith Page 141 What is Coaching For: Lessons from Don Juan DeMarco (Issue 3) Goldstein Page 144 Achieving Escape Velocity (Issue 6) Sanchez Page 150 About the Yes and the No’s that Precede Them (Issue 4) Maynard Page 154 Future-Science Technology: A New Operating System (Issue 7) Yishai Page 158 Human Mutuality System (Issue 9) Stevens Page 168 Breaking Free from Gravity (Issue 6) 9 Crews Page 173 Fifty Shades of “No” (Issue 4) Goulston Page 176 Intense Identity Expansion (Issue 12) Norris Page 180 Beyond Perspective (Issue 10) Zweifel Page 184 The Ten Commandments for Gamechangers (Issue 9) CE Smith Page 191 The Merlin Factor: Leadership & Strategic Intent (Published Prior to Transformation) Author Biographies Page 233 LPC Sponsors Page 245 10 SECTION ONE THE TRANSFORMATIONS OF LPC 11 The Five Transformations of LPC William Bergquist and Suzi Pomerantz As is the case with many credible initiatives and viable organizations of the 21st Century, founders of the Library of Professional Coaching and those who guided LPC through its first ten years (the co- curators), there have been multiple points of transformation in the history of the library. Furthermore, in most instances, these transformations have been guided by an analogy drawn to some other successful ventures or by a rich, provocative metaphor. We are pleased to reveal some of the transformations undergone in the evolution of the library. Our own reflections on these transformations have helped us to prepare for the fifth transformation in which we are now engaged, as co-curators of the Library of Professional Coaching. As we reflect on the last ten years and design our expanded path forward, we find five distinct transformations. The original idea for the Library was generated by Bill Bergquist in 2003, and you can read our startup story, “Origins of the Professional Coaching Library” here in the Library: https://libraryofprofessionalcoaching.com/about-us/ Transformation One: From Dream to Plan Obviously, the most important transformation that occurs in the life of any initiative or organization is that which takes place between the moment when a dream has occurred and this dream is translated into a plan.