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.