Daily Archives: April 8, 2008

Education Systems And Individuality

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Having tutored a few kids lately, it is painfully obvious we are not giving our children everything they need in order to fulfill them.

Can you imagine our future, our tomorrow? These children going to school today will provide for us tomorrow. Yet, they are not given everything they need in order to fulfill themselves and grow into integrated society citizens by choosing the professions they are best suited for. Instead, they are being forced into industry segments in order to answer corporation’s needs. It should be the other way around.

I think there are a few problems, mostly priorities not set straight. In a perfect catch 22 vicious cycle, we want a lot of engineers and technicians for tomorrow in order to produce more. However, by pushing too many kids in these directions, and sometimes many of them who would excel in other professions, we are forcing them into a path that is not theirs. They will not be happy and certainly will not a positive part of our society doing things where their hearts are not into it.

By spending more on military then on education we are sabotaging our own future to defend ourselves if need be. We need highly trained students who choose these industry segments to produce first, then we can better build defense mechanism, or at least a better balanced training to producing ratio.

As always, I feel it comes down to spending more on schools, less children per classes, better teacher training and mostly, let children chose what they are here on to do. In the meantime, what I see are 11 year olds who have no idea what a verb is and cannot even conjugate to be or to have in the present, simple past or simple future. That is a scary future… How about a coach in school for kids?

Coaching Professional Training Supporting Spiritual Development

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One of my favorite points about coaching and being professionally trained is that it is a profession that allows you to continue your own growing up.

Contrary to working anyold regular job, coaching lets you grow. Not only it lets you but it is an important part of a good coach. How can you coach someone if you haven’t done your own growing up? You grow with your clients. You develop as they develop. It is truly a symbiotic experience where their motivation and yours propel both far.

Two areas I want to work more with are women in their 50′s to mid-70′s, and spiritual or “wholistic” coaching. Women in that age bracket, and still to this day younger women have been taught to forget about themselves and provide for their immediate environment. It’s sad because they rarely get their own needs met. This can only give two results, a frustrated woman with a frustrated environment or a resigned one. Both are not good alternatives. There are people who want to know what you want. Who want to know the real you, not just the provider. I know there is a way to still provide our immediate environment and still have our needs met.

The spiritual aspect of coaching is very interesting, especially these days where we lack direction, we lack role models. TV is more about peeping tomming reality shows, denigrating people and their feelings (crying on TV and flashy zoom-ins) with a complete lack of role model. Whether we turn to politicians or authority figures, we find them detached from what people are going through in every day life. We find them caught up in scandals when they hail high ethics. There is little leadership in this people outside getting their pockets filled.

Here is to an interesting year of learning and applying. I am glad more than ever to pursue my studies and it shows in my practice.