Robin Alfred

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Robin Alfred, BA (Oxon), PGCE, M.Phil (Cantab) is an organisational consultant, facilitator,mediator, executive and life coach.Robin worked as a trainer, educator and social work manager for 15 years in London, beforemoving to Scotland in 1995 where he founded the Findhorn Consultancy Service and,subsequently, Open Circle Consulting Ltd. He has extensive experience of leading and developing groups and individuals in a variety of settings including prisons, social work, police
service, communities and organisations across all sectors public, private and voluntary. is trained in a wide variety of approaches to personal and organisational development including: Appreciative Inquiry, the Frameworks for Change Coaching Process, Process Work,Spiral Dynamics, Tools for Corporate Transformation, Organisational Constellations, Archetypes at Work, NARM and Thomas Hubl’s trauma integration processes. He is a certified Collective Trauma Integration Facilitator and has facilitated several yearlong international Collective Trauma Integration Labs.
His clients include PricewaterhouseCoopers, BP, Birmingham City Council, the National Health Service, ABNAMRO Bank, CDP, Mercy Corps, Greenpeace International, Authentic Investor, Weleda UK, Equal Exchange, ARDO, The Wildlife Trusts, New Energy Nexus, Teach for All, Room to Read, FAI FarmsRobin also served as a Senior Programme Director for Olivier Mythodrama Associates for 15 years, for whom his clients included: Nokia, Motorola, Axa, INSEAD, Office for Public Management, Fried Frank, Gates Foundation, HM Revenue and Customs, Institute of Education, UN International Atomic Energy Agency, Daimler, McDonalds and Johnson & Johnson.

Coaching

Robin has extensive experience as a both a shortterm and longterm executive and life coach. His clients include teams and executives in ABN AMRO Bank, Royal Bank of Scotland, Fried Frank, the NHS, Mercy Corps, ARDO, FAI Farms, Weleda UK and a wide variety of individuals in the public, NGO, SME and private sectorsHis coaching methodology is traumainformed and eclectic with the GROW model, theMythodrama Guild, the Frameworks for Change Coaching Process, NARM, Archetypes at Work, and the teachings of contemporary mystic Thomas Huebl, all informing his practice. Robin’s focus is on maximising contribution , wellbeing and effectiveness through liberating potential and developing a deep sense of agency and orientation. This may involve coaching individuals and teams around such themes as:
 
Developing presence
Accessing intuition
Deepening purpose and meaning
Motivating self and others
Sensing what is emerging from ‘the field’
Emotional intelligence
Political intelligence
Conflict facilitation and other aspects of interpersonal communication
Performance coaching

Coaching sessions can be undertaken face to face or by video conferencing using the Zoom platform. 
 
Robin’s current areas of inquiry include:
 
Leading From The Future what is the nature of innovation and genius? How can we create the internal conditions and external practices that allow us to listen to, and act upon, the whispers of the future? 
 
Facilitating Transformational Fields an individual is embedded in a system, and the system is embedded in a social field. How can we learn to sense the field and experience facilitation as a dialogue with the selforganising principle of a group?
 
Trauma Informed Leadership we swim in seas of trauma (personal, cultural, transgenerational) and take as ‘normal’ ways of being, acting and responding that are actually shaped by trauma. Becoming aware of how trauma impacts and shapes our individual and organisational lives is a first and necessary step towards developing more agile, responsive and essential organisations.

Publications

“Black Workers in the Prison Service” (ISBN 0 946209 22 7), Prison Reform Trust, London. Prize winner in Prison Reform Trust national research competition. 

‘Beyond You and Me Inspiration and Wisdom for Building Community’ ed, Kosha Anja Joubert and Robin Alfred (ISBN: 9781856230384). Permanent Publications. 

“What’s the Best Day You’ve Ever Had at Work?’ by Robin Alfred and Robin Shohet, published in ‘Building on the Best Appreciative Inquiry in the NHS’ ed. John Edmonstone 

‘Daring Not To Know’ AI Practitioner, November 2003

 Findhorn Foundation Consultancy Service Occasional Papers, (for which I am also the Series Editor):
 
“Integral Leadership”
“Practical Spirituality in the Workplace” (with Robin Shohet)
“Appreciative Inquiry the 5th D” (with Robin Shohet)

Leading from the Future Mobius Strip, Winter 2022

The Art of Facilitating Transformational Fields Mobius Strip, April 2023

Emergent Leadership Mobius Strip, Fall, 2024


Robin has also had various letters and articles relating to criminal justice, homelessnesssustainability and leadership development published in “The Times”, “The Independent” and “The Guardian”; and has published articles on the same themes for various media outlets.

Trauma-Informed Coaching for
Regenerative Leadership

Coaching that restores coherence, aligning the leader’s inner
ecosystem with a resilient, living organization.

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