Robin Alfred
the growth, our coaches walk alongside you – helping turn challenges into catalysts for
transformation.

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 year–long international Collective Trauma Integration Labs.
His clients include PricewaterhouseCoopers, BP, Birmingham City Council, the National Health Service, ABN–AMRO 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 Farms. Robin 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
• 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.
Publications
• “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, homelessness, sustainability 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.