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I chose the profession of coaching because I want to help others and am passionate about making a difference. I believe I bring experience, insights, and training to my work. I and my fellow coaches want to be the best for our clients and to do great work. Organizations and professionals who have worked with coaches can attest to the impact coaching has had on them.
At the start of this year one of my goals was to complete an Executive Coaching qualification mainly to rubber stamp my many years experience, and as a backup for tenders and other business requirements, not really appreciating just what a difference it would make.
Every so often, it’s normal to come to a halt – a paralyzing moment of not knowing what to do - every so often during a coaching session, don’t you think?
When people are thinking about being mentored or coached, they are really nervous about what could happen if they and their mentor or coach don’t get on. This, I think, is entirely natural.
I’d like to describe what coaching and mentoring (CAM) are and why I think that they are something that everyone should have access to. My conviction lies in my personal experience of being coached and mentored, and of being a coach and mentor.
For a while now I have considered myself to be an integrative practitioner - someone who draws on both coaching and therapeutic methodologies in the service of my clients. But what do I actually mean by that?
It is useful to start a discussion referring to coaching and counselling with some kind of working definitions.
Service - helping others. There, I’ve said it. After much reflection and rummaging in my memory I’d sum up my approach to coaching with that one word. Jeremy Bentham wrote, “Create all the happiness you are able to create. Remove all the misery you are able to remove.” And coaching is a powerful way of doing that.
The good coach invited me to think more broadly and explicitly about how I coach and where that approach comes from. That's what this blog is about. It's a bit longer, but I have some debts to acknowledge and that takes a bit of space and explanation.
