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A peek into non-dual coaching
Client: Can you give me ways to be calm and focused when I’m at work? Coach: Why do you want to be calm and focused? Client: Because I want to do well for myself and my company. I want to succeed. Coach: Could that possibly be getting in your way? Client: Sure, but that’s the
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A peek into mindset coaching
Client: Can you give me ways to be calm and focused when I’m at work? Coach: Tell me about a time when you were completely relaxed and comfortable just where you were. Client: It was at my best friend’s house when we were talking about our kids. Coach: What exactly was comfortable about it? Client:
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A peek into performance coaching
Client: Can you give me ways to be calm and focused at work? Coach: When do you experience the greatest calm and focus in general? Client: Hm, when I’m rock climbing I guess. Coach: What is it about rock climbing that does that for you? Client: I don’t know, it’s just me and the wall,
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What is the conversation you want to have with your work?
Work is a constant conversation. It is the back-and-forth between what I think is me and what I think is not me; it is the edge between what the world needs of me and what I need of the world. Like the person to whom I am committed in a relationship, it is constantly changing
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The courage to witness
I recently heard a story, told by Roshi Joan Halifax, about the Dalai Lama’s visit to Ishinomaki after the terrible 2011 tsunami. It wasn’t so much what he did or said that struck me, but what someone who observed him reflected. Pico Iyer was with the Dalai Lama at Ishinomaki and described how hundreds of
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I’m Listening
Just sharing a poem that always grounds me and brings me closer to myself. I’m listening yet I don’t knowIf what I hear is silenceOr god I’m listening but I can’t tellIf I hear the plain of emptiness echoingOr a keen consciousness thatAt the bounds of the universeDeciphers and watches me I only know I
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Beauty has the allure to draw the other world
How is your work beautiful? What does it take to reconnect with its essence? As I prepare to facilitate or coach, sometimes I find myself rediscovering wonder, inspiration, and maybe even beauty as a way for these containers to keep their fragrant essence. Especially for the things I do more than once. The more I
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From holding space to being held by it
At the start of a coaching conversation, it can be useful to think of holding space for a client. The identity shifts away from you to being present to another. Holding space can be a helpful heuristic allowing the coach to let go, and be open to new possibilities. The client, who may have come