We’d love to learn your response to a very important question……
‘What is the future of Coaching?’
As we are moving through the series a number of threads keep arising within the dialogues that leave us with a curiosity that we now need to dance with. We believe there are new pathways being sketched in the sand that we can begin to articulate. We would like to do this in dialogue with you.
There’s a huge need for global transformation on many levels. Personally and professionally, ecologically and economically, politically and spiritually.
On all these fronts the world is challenging us to step into the unknown and discover new ways of being and doing that not only allow us to cope with the current crises, but use them as catalysts for profound growth and global transformation.
As individuals and communities we all need to respond to these different types of challenges. This means we need to develop, both individually and collectively so that we can meet the challenges we face from more whole and inclusive perspectives.
This is where coaching has something extremely valuable to offer – specifically the developmental, integral or whole person based approaches that are moving into new stages of maturity. These approaches ask us to reflect on our very nature, to wake up and inquire deeply into who we are and what drives us. They ask us to act in accordance with our values and practice in order that we unfold into our highest potential.
How can these types of coaching approaches reach and impact a wider range of people?
How can we facilitate, as Richard Strozzi-Heckler calls it, ‘the democratization of coaching?’
Another essential step seems to include the emerging field of work around the evolutionary self or unique self. This field of work suggests there is a way of being in the world that transcends and includes both our absolute and relative selves. A way of being in the world that involves us dissolving our ego fixations and operating more and more from the essential qualities that emerge in their place. As we make this transition our orientation changes in the world to one of increasing wisdom, empowerment, care, compassion and need to serve.
If coaching as a way of being and living in the world could permeate society at large it would be a tremendous leverage point in facilitating positive transformation.
A series of important question then becomes…..
- How might coaching schools and coaches create more effective partnerships, collaborations and vehicles to have greater impact in the world?
- What are you capable of? – Are you having the kind of impact that you were inspired to create when you first started your training?
- Thinking more radically, what might you begin if you knew you couldn’t fail?
(And finally…..)
- How do you see Coaches Rising contributing more effectively to facilitate this?
If you’re inspired then share some of your thoughts below.
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