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AUTHOR · COACH · TEACHER

Writing from the heart

Bernard Kates explores the courage it takes to live and lead with full presence - in four books that invite you inward.

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Living from the Heart

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Leading from the Heart

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Living Heart and Soul

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Coaching from the Heart

Four Books. One Invitation.

Each title is a doorway - into deeper living, wiser leading and more soulful coaching.

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Living from the Heart

A guide to inhabiting your life with full presence and authentic courage.

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Leading from the Heart

Leadership rooted in compassion, integrity and genuine human connection.

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Living Heart and Soul

Integrating the spiritual and the practical in everyday, soulful living.

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Coaching from the Heart

A coaching philosophy that transforms both Client and Coach through deep presence.

LATEST WRITING

From the Blog

Reflections on living, leading and the courage it takes to show up fully.

LONG-FORM THINKING

Essays

Deeper explorations of the ideas that animate the books - for those who want to go further.

The Moment of Noticing

This essay reflects on the subtle, ordinary moment when someone becomes aware they’ve been living on autopilot amid life’s constant “noise,” and sees that simply noticing this is the beginning of a deeper, ongoing practice of presence and self-listening.

From the Heart

This essay reflects on the author’s shift from performance- and control-based leadership toward leading and living with grounded presence—“from the heart”—where clear thinking integrates with emotion, values, and responsibility.

Steadying Without Withdrawal

This essay argues that instead of numbing, hardening, or withdrawing to avoid overwhelm, we can cultivate a steady “posture” of discernment, pacing, and quiet integration that lets us stay present to reality without being consumed by it.

Against the Current

This essay reflects on how fear-based, certainty-driven (often authoritarian) ways of organising society erode truth, critical thinking, and compassion—and argues that resisting this “inversion” depends on sustaining responsibility, curiosity, community, and everyday decency.

ABOUT BERNARD

A life spent listening to the heart

Bernard Kates is a writer, coach and teacher whose work sits at the intersection of inner wisdom and practical life. His four books invite readers to move beyond performance and into presence.

"The heart knows things the mind takes years to catch up with."

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