The Spark Within Workshop
Transforming Resistance Into Insight

A Workshop for Coaches on Working More Skillfully with Resistance and Emotional Charge

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Welcome! I’m excited to be opening the doors to a workshop I’ve been quietly brewing — and I’d love for you to join me.

In this 4-hour session, we’ll explore how emotional tension and resistance — those charged moments in coaching — often signal an underlying polarity tension: a dynamic between two equally important, interdependent values (like Control & Surrender or Exploration & Commitment).

These tensions aren’t problems to fix — they’re invitations to integration, insight, and greater wholeness.

🌀 What This Workshop Offers

Whether the tension arises in your own stance as a coach or in your client’s experience, this workshop will help you to become more skillful at recognizing it as part of a deeper polarity dynamic.

You’ll work with your own inner tensions and also explore ways to support clients as they navigate theirs.

This isn’t a theory download. You’ll be reflecting, mapping, moving, dialoguing — engaging the material through your whole self: head, heart, and gut.

You’ll walk away with:

  • A grounding in polarity thinking as it applies to coaching conversations
  • A deeper awareness and appreciation of your own coaching strengths and their limits
  • A felt-sense of how polarity dynamics create emotional charge and developmental opportunity
  • A personal polarity map, developed from a real tension in your life or work
  • New language and frameworks to help surface hidden tensions and shift stuckness into greater clarity

🔍 Who This Is For

This is especially for Integral Coaches (or coaches with a strong developmental orientation) who want to bring more awareness, embodiment, and nuance to how they meet emotional charge — in themselves and in others.

Whether polarity thinking is familiar or brand new to you, you’ll come away with a clearer lens and practical reflection tools that you can start integrating right away.

💡 What This Is Not

This is not a protocol-based training or a comprehensive exploration of complex polarity theory. You won’t leave with a toolkit of “plug-and-play” client techniques.

What you will leave with is something subtler but powerful: a lived, embodied understanding of how polarity tensions show up in real conversations — and how to begin working with them in a more integrated way.

📋 Details at a Glance

  • 🗓 Date: Wednesday, December 3rd or 10th, 2025 (To be determined)
  • 🕒 Time: 4 hours, from 2:00 to 6:00 PM BST (9:00 AM to 1:00 PM EDT, 3:00 PM to 7:00 PM CEST)
  • 💸 Cost: $395 CAD
  • 👥 Spots: 6–12 only (kept small on purpose for intimacy and depth)
  • 📍Location: Online on Zoom

Testimonials

“The Polarity Workshop was an inspiring and deeply insightful experience. Miguel wove a coherent and engaging story — knowledgeable, practical, and yet beautifully simple. It made the learning feel clear, connected, and very relevant to real-world work.

I especially appreciated how we first explored polarities intuitively— through hands-on, personal, real-time examples—before diving into the conceptual explanations. That approach helped the ideas land in a meaningful way —It helped me experience what polarities are about, not just understand them in theory.

One of my biggest takeaways was realizing that polarities are not problems. These cyclical dynamics show up for every individual, team and system. Often, what we label as "problem" might actually be a polarity imbalance. Because we’re so accustomed to being problem-solvers, we tend to approach polarities the same way - simply out of habit and skill. Seeing this distinction was truly eye-opening.

The explanation and lead-in to the role-play exercise were excellent and really brought the concepts to life. I loved the balance between breakout discussions and guided activities — it kept the energy engaging and the learning practical.

Overall, the workshop was both inspiring and immediately applicable. It offered tools, insights, and a way of seeing complexity that I can carry forward in all areas of my work."

Swantje Duncker

Integral Master Coach™

“The opportunity to gain deeper insights into how resistance shows up for me in my life was what drew me to this workshop, and it exceeded my expectations. The workshop presents new ways of seeing and approaching what emerges within, and is presented at a pace that packs in a great deal of information while also allowing time to process and explore within ourselves.”

Jan O’Donnell

Integral Master Coach™

“This workshop can help you understand your resistance more and what's behind it. It offers a framework and experience to help you gain new perspectives and to appreciate what really matters to you when resistance arises.”

Lito Egbreghts

Integral Master Coach™

“Miguel’s workshop was a rich and eye-opening experience for me. As an Integral Master Coach™, I’ve been in plenty of conversations where emotional tension shows up — in myself and in my clients — but Miguel helped me see those moments in a whole new way. Instead of trying to “fix” them, I’m learning to see them as signs of something important trying to come through.

The session was full of new awareness, reflection, and real dialogue — not just ideas in my head, but experiences I could feel in my body. Creating my own polarity map from a real tension I’m living with right now gave me clarity I didn’t expect. I left with a better understanding of my own strengths, a fresh perspective on my blind spots, and some simple ways to work with tension instead of against it.*

Miguel has a grounded, generous presence. He holds the space with warmth and curiosity, which energizes and encourages authentic discussion.*

I’d recommend this workshop to any coach who wants to work more comfortably and skillfully with charged moments that can open the door to real transformation.”

Derek Johnston

Integral Master Coach™

If this speaks to you, I’d be so delighted to have you join.

Feel free to reach out with questions, or trust your gut and sign up if it feels like the right next move.

With heart,
Miguel