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Dialogues at the Living EdgeDiscovering the Knowing Soma with Veronica Olalla LoveSend us a textIn this episode I am joined by Newfield Network CEO and Senior Facilitator, Veronica Olalla Love. We take a deep dive into the question: What is coaching and why is it relevant for all of us in this modern world. Specifically, we explored the importance of working with the body in our transformative dialogues with others. Veronica offers some key insights from her Applied Somatics Certification Program. It was a rich dialogue and I think you will love it!Veronica mentioned the next applied somatic coaching program will begin in November a...
2024-10-0954 min
Coaching the Whole Educator#101: Beyond the Words: How Nonverbals Can Make or Break a Coaching ConversationSend us a textHave you ever felt like someone was saying one thing, but their body was telling a completely different story? That’s the power of nonverbal communication.Veronica Love Olalla, CEO of Newfield Network, discusses what we intend to say and what our bodies actually broadcast. Our bodies are the front lines of communication. It's not just about what you say, but how you say it – the tilt of your head, the flicker of your eyes, the subtle shift of your weight. These silent signals can either invite others in or build wall...
2024-08-2521 min
Portals of Perception074 - What is Healing? #2 - A New TogetheringSometimes it takes courage to heal. It’s usually easy to see, feel, and know the pain and trauma from our own lives, our communities, and the cultural upheavals upending many parts of our world. Being able to perceive and register hurt or isolation and loneliness doesn’t necessarily make the path to healing and wholeness any more visible, or smooth.How do we find and feel the inner strength to take the first step? One of the paths to healing and transformation begins in the special ecology or space that is created between people who share resp...
2024-05-101h 19
Coaches on Zoom Drinking CoffeeVeronica Olalla Love: Chief Executive Officer for the Newfield NetworkA conversation with Veronica Olalla Love, the CEO of Newfield Network who shares her deep insights into the field of ontological coaching, a practice focused on understanding and improving how individuals show up in life. This approach emphasizes the importance of observing how one sees the world, which can unlock a host of possibilities and lead to profound self-exploration and transformation.Veronica discusses the holistic integration of somatics in coaching, which considers the body not just as a physical entity but as a repository of experiences, impacting how we engage with the world and ourselves.
2024-04-2230 min
COFFEE WITH NICOA: Creating A LIFE BY DESIGN.S1 EP46: VERONICA PAZ OLLALA LOVENicoa has the honor of hosting her former coach Veronica Paz Ollala Love, CEO of the Newfield Network coaching organization where Nicoa was certified as an ontological coach back in 2010. She and Nicoa reflect on her unique LIFE BY DESIGN by looking at her lineage, through the pain of hate and fear as a foundational driver of intentional living and the power of those experiences on her and her family's "Way of Being" in the world. Listen in for a profound reflection on learning to know oneself and recognizing...
2023-12-271h 04
Coaches Rising169 - Veronica Olalla Love, Alexander Love & Lorie Dechar: An Invitation Into WholenessIn this conversation with Veronica and Alexander Love and Lorie Dechar we explore the interplay between emergence and vision, tools for coming into greater wholeness, integral consciousness, working with “entelechy” and accessing deeper presence. Alexander Love is an acupuncturist, life coach, and craniosacral therapist. With gentleness, lightness and depth, he invites us to listen to the voice of our inner wisdom & potency and allow that to move us outward into the world and make a difference. Veronica Paz Olalla Love is the Chief Executive Officer for the Newfield Network, United States branch and is an international presenter for the Newf...
2023-04-131h 09
Coaches Rising153 - Alexander Love, Veronica Love & Lorie Dechar: The Unfolding Self & Dimensions of WholenessIn this conversation with Alexander Love, Veronica Love & Lorie Dechar we explore emerging perspectives on adult development in the current paradigm of cultural change, various perspectives on wholeness and fragmentation, balancing different lines of inner development, reintegrating the somatic and the emergence of self. Alexander Love is an acupuncturist, life coach, and craniosacral therapist. With gentleness, lightness and depth, he invites us to listen to the voice of our inner wisdom & potency and allow that to move us outward into the world and make a difference. Veronica Paz Olalla Love is the Chief Executive Officer for the Newfield Network...
2022-12-051h 30
Coaches Rising114 - Veronica Olalla Love: The Power of Deep ListeningAttuning to different levels of perception through our quality of listening is something we do naturally as coaches, but learning to navigate this skill with even greater nuance is a limitless endeavour that is endlessly rich. In this conversation with CEO and facilitator Veronica Love we dive into the crisis of listening, the limitations of obvious realities, dynamic coherency, the power of pausing and non-conceptual modes of perception. Veronica Love is the Global CEO of The Newfield Network and an international facilitator who trains leaders and coaches who change the world. Veronica has lead Newfield's signature coach training and...
2021-12-211h 13
The Newfield Ignite PodcastThe Honesty of Facing Life: Shortcoming, Edges, and BeautyVeronica Olalla Love, M.Ac., NCC®, PCC is the Chief Executive Officer for the Newfield Network’s United States branch and is an international presenter for the Newfield Network programs. Why is the “observer” so important in the ontological approach? Why does including the body, emotion, and language lead to lasting changes when it comes to coaching or personal development? Why is it a powerful move, as a coach, to understand what your client truly cares about? In this conversation, Veronica shares why she was immersed in ontological learning from a young age, and how her exp...
2018-08-2300 minThe Newfield Ignite PodcastA New Look at The OAR ModelAlexander Love is a coach, acupuncturist, and also the creator of the Newfield business development program. Why is it transformative to begin to see the observer that we are? How do we begin to understand what influences our worldview, and how do we shift that perspective so that we can go from being to becoming? In this conversation, Alexander brings his wide scope of experience to unpack the most important concepts in the style of coaching practiced by Newfield. Ontology, epistemology, and methodology, although rooted in philosophy are also deeply practical when it comes to...
2018-06-2900 minThe Newfield Ignite PodcastRethinking LeadershipMarty Raphael, MCC NCOC, is an ontological business coach with over 10,000 hours of experience in the field. She is also the author of Spiritual Vampires and a mentor coach for Newfield Network. What is a generative definition of a leader, one that can help us find our way around the current crisis of leadership? In this conversation, Marty speaks from her extensive work with leaders and teams about what it takes to become a different observer, to begin to see new possibilities and change the status quo. Marty’s approach borrows from many source...
2018-06-1200 minThe Newfield Ignite PodcastReflections, Questions, & Practices for Coaching & ConversationsWhere do you listen to others from—your head, heart or gut? How often do you check in with yourself as you are hearing someone’s story? Do you allow yourself to speak from your intuition? What do you connect to when you don’t know where to go next? How do you prepare yourself for a conversation? In this interview, Carol shares her fascinating insights for both coaches and non-coaches on these questions and more. Carol lets her passion for ontological coaching and learning flow as she offers us practices for accessing better conversations and deeper coachi...
2018-05-0500 minThe Newfield Ignite PodcastContextual Understanding: An Essential Element in Expanding the SelfJulio Olalla has been coaching and training coaches for over 30 years and is the founder and president of the Newfield Network. What happens when we look beyond our immediate concerns to the larger history that we are part of and that moves through us? What if this perspective made for more powerful coaching and more lasting shifts in our level of consciousness? In this conversation, Julio speaks from his own varied experience with many cultures and what he has learned: that often our woes are woven into us by our history. By coaching from this...
2018-03-2300 minThe Newfield Ignite PodcastMoving into Greater WholenessThomas is an author, public speaker, and active voice in the conversation on the role of religion in the 21st century, he is also a facilitator at Pacific Integral. What does emotional pain and wounding look like as we move up into higher stages of development? Is there an aspect of you that you could more fully include and integrate into the wholeness of who you are right now? Thomas speaks from his own experience to explore how, as we move into higher stages, we develop a capacity to be with painful parts of ourselves r...
2018-02-1600 minThe Newfield Ignite PodcastSounds That Strengthen the SoulGlenda Monasch is a Eurythmy trainer who works with this form in the context of therapy, pedagogy, and performance. Her childhood in South Africa and studies in Europe have shaped her life path in this expressive form that includes soul, breath, poetry, and movement. Is there a language that is common to all human beings? An original language that unites our inner world with our bodies and with the outside world? How can this non-verbal language help us reconnect with the world? With our true nature? In this conversation, Glenda explores the origins of eurythmy...
2017-11-2800 minThe Newfield Ignite PodcastWisdom from One of the Youngest Guardians of Our PlanetXiuhtezcatl Martinez is a 17-year-old climate activist, hip hop artist, and powerful voice on the front lines of a global, youth-led, environmental movement called the Youth Guardians. What does it mean to truly connect with the things that really matter to us? For Xiuhtezcatl, it means that we find our reason to care for our planet and the motivation to take action. He invites us to be energized by all the solutions and innovations that are already out there rather than be weighed down by the problems themselves. In this conversation, Xiuhtezcatl talks about how...
2017-11-1000 minThe Newfield Ignite PodcastA Psychotherapist’s Perspective on Healing TraumaKim Barta is an internationally recognized psychotherapist, life coach, and speaker with over 30 years of experience in the field. Kim co-created a Mind/Body Healing Center that has been successful for over 27 years on the Flathead Indian Reservation. During this time, Kim developed innovative solutions and enrichments for the human condition including: “Shadow to Spirit,” “The Evolution of Shadow Resolution,” and “Psychosocial Cartography” that are highly effective with depression, anxiety, trauma, anger, and addictions. What does it take for rapid healing of trauma, abuse, and addiction? Kim talks about how he came to his current treatment approach through a co...
2017-09-1400 minThe Newfield Ignite PodcastUncertainty as the Key to ChangeIs it possible that there are many aspects of our lives that we don’t need to be so certain about? That questioning how we see the world can lead us to new worlds we never even imagined? In this interview, Chalmers shares how he went from personal development skeptic to the author of the core reference book used in coach training programs all over the country. He discusses some key distinctions that have helped him transform his life and those of his clients: The inherent subjectivity of being human: How looking at—versus thro...
2017-08-1700 minThe Newfield Ignite PodcastWhat is Ontological Learning? A Personal Peek with Newfield’s CEOWhat is ontological learning? Why is it so important in today’s world? In this very personal conversation with Veronica, she not only shares the answers to these questions but also reveals how she became the CEO of Newfield Network, her stories of a unique childhood immersed in the world of personal transformation, and how using the ontological approach itself to run Newfield as a business gave her an invaluable skill set she could not have gained at business school… one that has made the company thrive. Veronica gives us a taste of all the real...
2017-07-2600 minThe Newfield Ignite PodcastRegaining Balance: Inside and OutBrendan Kelly, acupuncturist, Chinese medicine practitioner, book author, and tai chi teacher. What if climate change — what is happening at the global level — is a reflection of our own internal and cultural imbalances? In this provocative conversation, Brendan uses the concept of Yin and Yang as a lens through which to see our current crisis. We live in a time of imbalance. Our over-emphasis on stimulation, newness, and constant growth is an excess of Yang. What we need is Yin: to slow down, to have less, and to value the old. Brendan invites us t...
2017-05-2400 minThe Newfield Ignite PodcastWhy Mood Matters: Designing your Emotional StateLaura Bond, Director of the Arts and Ideas program at the University of North Carolina in Asheville and master trainer in the Alba Method (a somatic approach to inducing, expressing, and modulating emotions). Do you often feel driven by our emotions? What if there was a method to put you in the driver’s seat? In this conversation, Laura Bond talks about how each of our emotions is very specifically embodied: anger, for example, has its own muscle patterns in the face and body which are quite different from that of joy. When peo...
2017-04-2000 minThe Newfield Ignite PodcastBeyond DivisionsJohn Kesler, proponent of individual and collective flourishing, Founder of the Integral Polarity Practice Institute, Founder of the nonprofit Salt Lake Global Civil Network, and “recovering” attorney. In a time of deeply divided politics, how can we find a way to include and transcend two opposite poles, two contending points of view? In this conversation, John Kesler presents his Integral Polarity Practice (IPP) as a practice that calls us to transcend the ego, access our compassion, and reach a higher self. IPP allows us to access a place where we see that opposite poles are actu...
2017-03-1700 minThe Newfield Ignite PodcastBusiness from the HeartAlexander Love is an Acupuncturist, Coach, Speaker, & Curriculum Developer of Newfield Network’s, “Heart, Soul & Praxis of Business Development Program.” What if running a business is an opportunity to show up passionately ...with love, care, and enthusiasm? In this conversation, Alexander shares the path that led him to redefine fundamental assumptions about what “business” “marketing” and “money” are or can be. Alexander invites us to consider business as the expression of our deepest heart desire, as the catalyst that will bring our voice out into the world. When a business owner acts from this place, he or...
2017-02-1400 minThe Newfield Ignite PodcastChanging Our Definition of MoneyIn this conversation, Bernard Lietaer reveals how our relationship with money has become unconscious. We have forgotten that we designed and created the idea of money. It seems money is managing us rather than us using it to serve our needs. “Money is an agreement,” says Bernard. “What is interesting about this definition is that one can change it once it stops working for us.” Bernard reviews alternatives to the current system that we seem tied to, one he calls “patriarchal” because it is a single currency system, created top-down, that promotes short-term rather than long-term thinking. He also disc...
2017-01-1800 minThe Newfield Ignite PodcastUncovering the Hidden Dimensions of SelfIn this interview, Lonny Jarrett integrates the wisdom of Chinese Medicine, Jungian analysis, and integral theory to explore human spiritual development and the ways in which we can access the deeper answers we seek. Lonny discusses why models of spiritual development are important: They help to identify where a client, patient, or coachee may get stuck, where they tend to regress in times of stress, and where the gaps are between their values and actions. Closing this gap is crucial for our continued evolution. "Evolution means entering the unknown," says Lonny. It comes when we...
2016-12-1300 minThe Newfield Ignite PodcastMaking it Meaningful: Combining Care with ActionWhat is a human being? What does it mean to integrate the desire to live a meaningful life with the pragmatics of action? In this interview, Bob Dunham reveals a cultural challenge: the flood of “how to” and “5 secrets to success” content that promises to change our lives but does not, and cannot, produce the big shifts we seek. Bob says that breakthrough can only come when we shift the context. To do this, we must ask questions that go beyond the “how.” By asking the “what” questions, we reveal blind spots and see we have the “incredible power to...
2016-11-2200 minThe Newfield Ignite PodcastEpisode 5: Terri O'FallonIn this interview, Terri O’Fallon, researcher, teacher and coach, reveals some of the universal human developmental patterns she has discovered. She has been a teacher for 53 years and has, therefore, witnessed first-hand the progression of human unfolding. In this conversation, Terri speaks to how human awareness and consciousness unfolds over time and how having an understanding of this developmental map enables us to cultivate more compassion for our fellow humans. Terri’s model is intricately linked to the work of contemporary philosopher Ken Wilber and also Dr. Susanne Cook Grueter’s work on human development. Lastly...
2016-10-1900 minThe Newfield Ignite PodcastReceptivity & Radical LoveWhat would happen if we allowed ourselves to shift from a constant state of striving and achieving, and instead entered into a place of deep satisfaction? In this interview, Alexander Love invites us into an intimate space of inquiry and invites us to experience the deep satisfaction that exists when we drop into a great field of love. From this direct experience of the ocean of love, we explore what new possibilities can arise in our coaching practice, our lives, and the world at large. What happens when our own agony and humanity’s...
2016-09-3000 minThe Newfield Ignite PodcastStillness & HeartHow can we transform a challenge into a portal for revelation? In this podcast, Anna Chitty shares powerful distinctions and practices that we can utilize both in our coaching and in our lives. Anna gently guides us through an exploration of five essential skills: presence, field dynamics, listening, recognition, and conversation. Then, she explores how to recognize different nervous system states—and why they matter. This is a unique opportunity to experience these beautiful practices based on deep wisdom. BIO Anna Chitty has been passionate about, and directed programs in, mind, body, and he...
2016-09-3000 minThe Newfield Ignite PodcastEpisode 2: Charles Eisenstein In this podcast Charles Eisenstein, author and speaker, reminds us that our worlds are created through stories, that every aspect of society is running on story. He highlights that our world is undergoing a radical shift in its dominant stories, a narrative change of great significance—and potential. What is our story about money? About self? About society? How mindful and aware are we of the stories that fuel our reality? What is the pain of the dissolution of old stories, the breaking down of our knowledge and our certainty? Charles then relays his own journey regarding au...
2016-09-3000 minThe Newfield Ignite PodcastCoaching: A Gateway into a New Way of SeeingIn our very first Newfield Ignite podcast Julio Olalla, founder of the Newfield Network and one of the founding fathers of coaching, invites us to reflect on the importance of seeing beyond ourselves—of truly paying attention to a view that encompasses all of humanity and the planet. Julio encourages us to move into a realm of care in the largest and most expansive way. He reveals how this expansive care requires us to question both our own blindness and our collective assumptions. This is a powerful invitation to fully step up as coaches and to examine where are we...
2016-09-2900 minThe Newfield Ignite PodcastWelcome to Newfield Ignite!Welcome to Newfield Ignite! Please listen to Episode 0 and begin our collective journey of transformation in order to make this world a more beautiful place!
2016-09-2900 min