Speaker
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Nick BoltonFounder and CEO of Animas Centre for CoachingNick is the founder and CEO of Animas Centre for Coaching, the global leader in transformational coach training.
A philosophically oriented coach and coaching supervisor, he is fascinated by how we make sense of ourselves in the world and the mental paradigms we operate from that shape our experience and actions.
Nick established Animas in 2008 to provide training in innovative approaches to coaching that built on psychological and philosophical principles. Over time, Nick developed his thinking further around transformative coaching delivering a number of presentations on philosophical perspectives on coaching and human change.
Nick has coached since the early 2000s, firstly working within the public sector through his own education and training business before becoming a personal coach, group coach, business mentor and coaching trainer.
Passionate about best practice and deepening coaching practice, Nick also established the International Centre for Coaching Supervision to provide high-quality supervision training around the world.
Local Time
- Timezone: America/New_York
- Date: Thursday, 13th February 2025
- Time: 1:00 PM - 2:30 PM
Human, All Too Human – Transformative Coaching as a Celebration of Personal Agency in the Face of Fragility
Join Nick Bolton, founder of Animas Centre for Coaching and the International Centre for Coaching Supervision, for an exploration of the human condition and the place of personal agency in transformative coaching.
Inspired by Friedrich Nietzsche’s Human, All Too Human, this talk celebrates the complexity, imperfection, and emotional depth that define the human condition—and the unique ability of coaching to transform these qualities into sources of strength, growth, and freedom.
Rooted in Nietzsche’s call to embrace human freedom and self-overcoming, Nick examines how transformative coaching empowers clients to transcend internal and external constraints.
As AI and standardized methods encroach on human connection, Nick makes a bold case for the irreplaceable value of the human spirit, intuition, and relational depth in coaching.
This talk is the third in a series that includes Nick’s earlier lectures, Neither Gods Nor Their Playthings: Personal Agency and Systemic Forces in Transformative Coaching and Absent But Implicit – Harnessing the Disavowed Forces of Coaching. The latter celebrated the humanness of coaches and the emotions they bring to their practice—qualities too often rejected or disavowed—while the former explored the delicate interplay between systemic forces and individual agency.
With Human, All Too Human, Nick turns his attention on the client’s humanity, inviting coaches to reclaim their role as champions of human freedom.
This session is both a celebration and a call to arms for coaches to help clients embrace the fullness of their humanity and unleash their creative, authentic potential.