We are Beth Follini, Ursula Glunk and Malgorzata Johansson. We were drawn together by a passion for polarities.
Beth Follini, CPCC is a Coach, Trainer and Consultant at Ticktock Coaching & Training based in London, UK. She, along with Ursula Glunk, is one of the co-founders of Creating from Polarity.
Email: beth@ticktockcoaching.co.uk
Website: http://www.ticktockcoaching.co.uk/
Beth Follini has run her own coaching and consulting business for the past five years. Prior to this, she managed a range of not-for-profit organisations and projects. From 2003 to 2005 she was the CEO of the Women’s Resource Centre – a pan-London organisation working to give women a voice in public policy. From 2000 to 2003, she was Project Director Luton Lives Active Citizens Project – one of five pilot projects given seed funding by the UK government to explore innovative ways of engaging both individuals and businesses in community action/volunteering.
She has been featured in national UK media including The Times and The Observer for her work coaching women who are trying to decide whether to have children or not.
Her passion for polarities comes from a long held commitment to working around diversity and difference – she has engaged on a personal level with holding the tension between opposites. This includes being engaged with conflict resolution work in Israel and Palestine. As a Quaker, she has long been committed to ‘holding the paradox’ of human nature and integrates polarity work along with the co-active model in coaching.
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Ursula Glunk, CPCC is a Senior Lecturer and Coach at Maastricht University, NL. Along with Beth Follini, Ursula is one of the co-founders of Creating from Polarity Email: U.Glunk@maastrichtuniversity.nl
Website: http://www.personeel.unimaas.nl/u.glunk/
Ursula Glunk is Senior Lecturer in Organizational Behaviour at Maastricht University. In addition to being a researcher and lecturer, she is working as a trainer, facilitator and personal coach in Master of Science Programmes, MBA Programmes and for organizations. From 2004 to 2007 she served as programme director of the Master of Science Programme in International Business. From 2005 to 2006 she was programme director of a Management Development Programme for university administrators.
Ursula studied Psychology at Mannheim University (Germany) and holds a PhD in Organization Studies from Tilburg University (The Netherlands). In autumn 2008, she became accredited as Certified Professional Co-active Coach (CPCC) by the Coaches Training Institute. Her fields of expertise are personal development, change management, communication, learning and creativity. Her research focuses on the functioning of teams and perceived integrity. Her passion for polarity work comes from the belief that transcending either/or thinking is at the core of creativity and growth, both at a personal level and in interactions with others.
Malgorzata Johansson is a Sales Development Specialist, Coach and Meditation Trainer based Wiesbaden, Germany Email: m.johansson@johansson-coaching.com Website: http://www.johansson-coaching.com
Malgorzata Johansson, a native of Poland, has been working in an international sales and marketing environment for over nine years. She has been managing various business development projects in large corporations, working in Austria, The Netherlands, UK and Germany.
She gained her Master of Commerce degree from Warsaw School of Economics (Poland) and her MBA from University of Applied Sciences in Berlin (Germany). She is a Co-Active coach trained at The Coaches Training Institute as well as Meditation Trainer certified by UTA Academy in Cologne, Germany.
Besides her work in international sales development, she runs her own coaching practice. In her work as a coach she focuses on the way, how one can synchronize the energy of the body, speech and mind with emotions and intuition, in order to increase the capacity of somatic/ body intelligence. In her work she explores, among others, mindfulness, active meditations and body awareness.
Her passion for polarities comes from the belief, that embracing differences leads to mindful peacefulness, which, in turn, allows us to enjoy fulfilling life. She believes that through integration of our body’s energy with what is being articulated, we bring the unity and clarity into action, thus increasing capacity to live with paradox and tension between opposite poles.
