Both practical and challenging, I find that the Breakthrough process workshop helps people to really begin to grapple with what it means to think beyond their usual mental boundaries. It illustrates a proccess that helps overcoming some of the limits that normally frame the perspective of what can be possibly achieved and realized.
I also find that Alain conducts his business at a very high level of professionalism and competency. Alain is an experienced and savvy businessman and coach who has the uncanny ability to identify core issues quickly and then develop and implement an action plan to address them. His lively personality and sense of humor make his clients comfortable and quickly able to trust his expertise. I have absolutely no reservations in recommending Alain Cardon and MetaSysteme. Marisa Faccio, Italy.
Having heard a presentation by Alain Cardon from Metasysteme at the ICF European Coaching Conference 2008 in Geneva I decided to take part in one of the Metasysteme workshops delivered in English. As a result of this determination I found myself in Bucharest, Romania in September 2008 participating in Alain’s two day long Breakthrough Process Workshop. Together with an Italian colleague we shared an intensive learning experience with a vibrant, warm, and well informed Romanian coaching community. The coaches in this emerging economy radiated both dedication for the coaching profession and ambition to develop towards excellence.
The Breakthrough Process Workshop represented uncompromised system thinking, rigor of process and a consistent coaching approach towards learning. Alain’s passion for coaching combined with his warm, shy heart, made the workshop a unique and insightful learning experience on exploring the possibilities of our unleashed potential and then systematically doing something concrete to reach it.” Lilian Öhman, Executive Coach, Finland.
"I have been member of the Metacoach supervision group in Brussels for almost half a year now, and I must say it is one of my most intensive learning experiences in a long time. Not only can I reflect on my coaching style and receive professional feedback from experienced colleagues, I also have the opportunity to enrich my coaching practice with ideas, interventions, techniques, attitudes from very different approaches. The team dynamics are also carefully supervised, so I now have an additional model on how to coach teams easily and effortlessly." Kirsten Dierolf, PCC, Frankfurt, Germany
Workshop "breakthrough approach": I've practised the "breakthrough"-approach several times with different types of clients. Each time it was refreshing to have both: a solid basis by working with figures and a clearly economical perspective as well as visionary thinking. During the workshops we tested this specific approach with our own business figures and it was good to have this personal experience in mind.
Workshop "diagnostics": Alain shows his varity of working with industrial and PME-clients by offering a diagnostic questionairy, that opened my eyes. I learned how to collect hints on different "cultures", both on team or organisational level. This diagnostic background speeds up understanding what's going on in a group of managers and executives and enables coaches to interact more precicely.
English Supervision in Paris: Besides Alain's remarkeable energy and presence in each session what impresses me most is how he succeeds to "marry opposites": He gives a living example how to be in one time relaxed and dynamic, work for results and leave all the space to the client to find her/his own way, be focused and flexible. Rather than techniques and methods what Alain teaches most is the attitude of coaching for teams and individuals. Christina Quirin, Consulting & Training, Hamburg (Germany)