Have you ever been coached?
What is coaching…and what it isn’t?The International Coaching Federation defines coaching as partnering with clients in a thought-provoking and creative process that inspires them to maximize their personal and professional potential. It is a future-focused conversation to assist clients to go from where they are right now in life to what they want to create. Coaching is based on the basic premise that every individual is whole, resourceful, and creative.
Coaching is not consulting, training, speaking, advising, mentoring, or counseling. Coaching is not therapy.
I remember the first time I experienced pure coaching based on the standards and competencies of the International Coaching Federation. It was conducted by my instructor master coach Carol Vickers. It was an eye-opening adventure. It felt like she was holding up a mirror for me to see the unfamiliar places, the blind spots, the dark places that you would not normally look to find clarity. Coaching is a tool for evoking insight or otherwise described as inner-sight or sight from within.
The truth of who we are hides deep within the deep chambers of our souls. Using powerful questions or appreciative inquiry, coaching can help bring it to the surface, to the forefront of our awareness. Coaching creates a space of safety and trust. It frees our minds to transcend our current patterns and limiting beliefs and we get a glimpse of our inner genius. It allows us to dig deep past the filters into one’s raw intuition. Coaching exists to serve the coachee’s higher purpose.
What is missing in your life right now?
What is the emotion you find most difficult to translate?