What Type of Coaching?

[loonwitch]

There are so many different forms of coaching available today.  Everything from Career Coaching to Lifestyle Coaching, Empowerment Coaching and Spiritual Coaching.

What are the most important things that you look for in a coach?

[sambanks]

I think this is a great question. Honestly, its gotta be someone who listens without judgment and someone who is rich in experience in the specific area of coaching and not just as a Coach but in the area that they are coaching about. It is easy to take a course and become a 'Coach' but having practical experience is essential to me.
I consider myself to be trained and highly experienced in the areas of Spiritual development, I have walked this for the last 11 years on my own path and as a teacher. Also I consider myself to be highly effective as a Coach in parenting and relationships, as a result of my spiritual living I have applied spiritual principles to my relationships (after all they have to be practical!)and have been married for 24 years, am raising two children (one who is a teenager, that says it all lol)and there are no manuals for this! Additionally I have built several successful businesses, again because of my practical and Spiritual know how.
So you see I think to advise others one has to have walked the path and gained the wisdom from doing so in order to effectively coach.

[mikaya]

The older I get, and the more I become aware of the vastness of being, the more i realise that within this unbeleivable vastness, what I know amounts to nothing. I know nothing! But the truth is I do seem to be able to help people, and so saying I know nothing is not very useful . . .

I coach people in the art of being fully alive, or the art of being human. That means, allowing Universal energy, or life force, to move through your body. It can be quite an alarming sensation when we are not used to it, and it can certainly prevent us from behaving in the contained, adult fashion that we expect in this society. So a lot of people are not really up to it. We have learned to attempt to restrain that energy moving through us -- and many of us experience various illnesses as a result. And yet, it still is neither easy nor always appropriate to allow it.

I write and talk about sex because that is the one classic area where almost all of us know that sensation of energy moving through the body. And right there, you see the potential problems! There is a reason why we don't normally have sex in public.

Another way of saying this (which I said in another post also) is that i help people to fall back into a place where their perspective on reality is not boundaried or limited by the perceptions imposed upon us by society, family and so on. A place where we can begin to perceive the incredible potential available to us.

How do you choose a coach? The same way you live your life: follow your heart and listen to that gut sensation that tells you this person can help -- or not. If it doesn't feel right, don't do it. And of course, then there is that place where your old training (which you are trying to move on from) might kick in and tell you this is too scarey. But in the end you are the only one who can decide whether you are willing to take the risk or not.

I'll check this thread more regularly so please ask more questions! Mikaya