80: Lacan and Coaching with Leslie Goldenberg

Leslie is a student at the Lacanian School of Psychoanalysis of
San Francisco and shares an interest with Simon about how Lacan’s
work can be very useful in our coaching practice.  Leslie
shares how Lacan’s psychoanalytic approaches show up in her work
saying the most important thing is that “it changes the way I
listen”.

She shares how this listening picks up on words and other speech
acts that are often missed, such as repetitions, and sounds such
as um and ah, and how these tell us something about our
unconscious relationship to ourselves and others.

Simon and Leslie share experiences of psychoanalysis and how it
is used in coaching. Leslie talks of how the body holds so much
of our unconscious experience, and how she might ask a client
about any body symptoms they are experiencing as a way to engage
with the unconscious. 

This fascinating discussion meanders through many experiences and
thoughts,  ranging from how Quakers and Buddhist practices
are connected with psychoanalysis, and the overlaps between
Leslie’s ceramic artwork and the unconscious.  We hope you
enjoy this podcast and it enriches your day!   

Bio
Leslie Goldenberg is a Coach and an award-winning ceramic
artist.  Over the past several years, her work has
increasingly come to address the unconscious at work in
organizational life. Leslie earned her M.A. from UCLA and is
currently a student at the Lacanian School of Psychoanalysis of
San Francisco. 

She holds a PCC credential from the International Coaching
Federation, has a Master Coach certification from the Hudson
Institute of Coaching, and was trained in our own Eco-Leadership
Institute Coaching approaches.