Laurent Vuibert

One piece of my preparation for the European Coaching Festival of the Association for Coaching, where I hold a session called Coaching as a Political Act.

Today, why come as a European or not, as a coach or not, and why bring a friend. Coaching is a stance before it is a profession, and there is more polarization and competition in our industry than we think.

European Coaching Festival, "Celebrating Humanity in Coaching", Association for Coaching. Tuesday 17 November 2026, 9:30am to 6pm, Belfast Exposed Gallery, Cathedral Quarter, Belfast, and online across Europe.

https://aceuropeancoachingfestival.com/

One piece of my preparation for the European Coaching Festival of the Association for Coaching, where I hold a session called Coaching as a Political Act.

Today, six verbs from the festival's own page: reconnect, experience, consider, examine, connect, and leave.

European Coaching Festival, "Celebrating Humanity in Coaching", Association for Coaching. Tuesday 17 November 2026, 9:30am to 6pm, Belfast Exposed Gallery, Cathedral Quarter, Belfast, and online across Europe.

https://aceuropeancoachingfestival.com/

Hi, I'm Laurent Vuibert, and this is a reading of the book, You Are It, for your listening and your experience. It is free. There are thirteen parts, and they follow the order of the book.

You Are It! is available on Amazon: https://amzn.eu/d/0e4HbUUF. The whole reading is on my podcast, Laurent Vuibert, and the text is on my Substack: laurentvuibert.substack.com. I'm looking forward to hearing and reading your comments and discoveries at [email protected]

This piece is about introducing You Are It and what this is really about. In a nutshell, these introductions are content as well. They are an invitation to start to reflect on what we get ourselves into.

In this part: Grounding, The Journey Ahead, A Call to Step Beyond.

You Are It! is available on Amazon: https://amzn.eu/d/0e4HbUUF. The whole reading is on my podcast, Laurent Vuibert, and the text is on my Substack: laurentvuibert.substack.com. I'm looking forward to hearing and reading your comments and discoveries at [email protected]

First, I highly recommend you read this section of another kind, the acknowledgement and recognition. We begin by appreciating and recognising the influences and inspirations which have sort of fertilised the ecosystem of thoughts and discoveries of the author. They are ecosystemic by nature, host to and co-creator of this journey.

You Are It! is available on Amazon: https://amzn.eu/d/0e4HbUUF. The whole reading is on my podcast, Laurent Vuibert, and the text is on my Substack: laurentvuibert.substack.com. I'm looking forward to hearing and reading your comments and discoveries at [email protected]

The why and how. This here is a bit of reflection or sharing about why I took the time, much more than I thought I would, to put together some ideas and some recordings and drawings, done with very human time and human conversations, to share with you.

In this part: Why This Essay; Why Me, Why Now; How to Read This Essay; How I Deal with Stories and Live Sessions.

You Are It! is available on Amazon: https://amzn.eu/d/0e4HbUUF. The whole reading is on my podcast, Laurent Vuibert, and the text is on my Substack: laurentvuibert.substack.com. I'm looking forward to hearing and reading your comments and discoveries at [email protected]

We begin by setting the context. Here I share that the maps we inherit no longer match the territory we face. That leaders are not broken systems requiring repair, but expressions of larger patterns seeking recognition. This section prepares the philosophical ground. It names the quiet revolution already underway in how we understand development, leadership, and change. If you have felt that something fundamental is shifting in how we live and work together, this section will give you language for that sensing.

You Are It! is available on Amazon: https://amzn.eu/d/0e4HbUUF. The whole reading is on my podcast, Laurent Vuibert, and the text is on my Substack: laurentvuibert.substack.com. I'm looking forward to hearing and reading your comments and discoveries at [email protected]

Before entering the dimensions themselves, we pause. Yes, we pause. I introduce the three clusters that organise the model: Foundation, Range, and Field. I speak of gravity and time, not as abstract concepts but as living forces that shape every moment of our existence. This is the compass reading before the walk. Here you will also encounter the relational principle that underlies all the work: transformation happens between us, not inside isolated individuals. If you carry only one idea from this essay, let it be this one.

You Are It! is available on Amazon: https://amzn.eu/d/0e4HbUUF. The whole reading is on my podcast, Laurent Vuibert, and the text is on my Substack: laurentvuibert.substack.com. I'm looking forward to hearing and reading your comments and discoveries at [email protected]

This is the first dimension. We descend into the ground beneath our feet: the accumulated layers of lived experience, family inheritance, cultural imprint, ancestral memory. Biography is not the past. It is the living foundation of every choice we make today. In this section, you will recognise how patterns laid down decades or generations ago continue to organise your responses, your relationships, your sense of what is possible. The invitation is not to escape this ground but to inhabit it more consciously.

You Are It! is available on Amazon: https://amzn.eu/d/0e4HbUUF. The whole reading is on my podcast, Laurent Vuibert, and the text is on my Substack: laurentvuibert.substack.com. I'm looking forward to hearing and reading your comments and discoveries at [email protected]

We rise from earth into air. This dimension explores vertical development: the altitudes of meaning-making from which we perceive and act. Under pressure, awareness contracts. Supported and resourced, it expands. Higher is not better, but range matters. Here you will find a way to understand why the same person can show wisdom in one context and collapse into old patterns in another. The atmosphere we breathe shapes everything we can see.

You Are It! is available on Amazon: https://amzn.eu/d/0e4HbUUF. The whole reading is on my podcast, Laurent Vuibert, and the text is on my Substack: laurentvuibert.substack.com. I'm looking forward to hearing and reading your comments and discoveries at [email protected]