
Speaker
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Nick BoltonFounder and CEO of Animas Centre for Coaching
Nick 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: Wednesday, 26th February 2025
- Time: 8:00 AM - 9:30 AM
Human, All Too Human – The Paradox of Change and the Art of Thriving as We Are
Join Nick Bolton, founder of Animas Centre for Coaching and the International Centre for Coaching Supervision, for a thought-provoking exploration of the paradox of change—how we evolve while remaining fundamentally human—and what this means for transformative coaching.
Inspired by the title of Friedrich Nietzsche’s book, “Human, All Too Human”, this talk invites coaches to reconsider the nature of personal growth, not as a process of erasing imperfection, but as an unfolding of who we already are.
It challenges the coaching world’s fixation on “improvement” and instead embraces the idea that thriving is not about fixing ourselves, but about living fully within our complexity, contradictions, and limitations.
Nick examines how transformative coaching creates space for clients to exercise personal agency—not by striving to become someone else, but by engaging more deeply with who they already are.
In an era where AI and standardized models attempt to mechanize human transformation, this session makes a bold case for the irreplaceable power of intuition, presence, and human connection in the coaching process.
This talk is the third in a series that includes Nick’s earlier lectures:
Absent But Implicit – Harnessing the Disavowed Forces of Coaching, which celebrated the humanness of coaches and the emotions they bring to their practice—qualities too often rejected or disavowed.
Neither Gods Nor Their Playthings – Personal Agency and Systemic Forces in Transformative Coaching, which explored the interplay between personal agency and the larger forces that shape our lives.
Now, with Human, All Too Human – The Paradox of Change and the Art of Thriving as We Are, Nick turns the focus to the client’s experience of change, inviting coaches to move beyond the paradigm of “fixing” and instead champion the paradoxical art of thriving as we are.
This session is both a celebration and a call to arms for coaches to embrace the depth and complexity of the human condition—both in themselves and in those they serve.