Why Coaching? Why Now?
Without a doubt, it is both.
Written by Martha Pasternack, MMC
Master Fearless Living Life Coach, Master Mentor CoachI don’t need to remind anyone who is remotely engaged with today’s current world events that we live in a turbulent time in our history. For many of us these are times of crisis, loss, grief, fear and stress beyond imagination. For others, it is just more of the same: hunger, poverty, illness, lack. And still others, pride, hope, creativity, possibility.
How can a person make sense of the rapid changes affecting us all; negative and positive? Where do we go for help and support?
Why Coaching?
I have recently been told that somewhere around 300,000 people search “life coaching” every month. I imagine that this number changes with the challenges people face.
The challenges we face today are unprecedented in recent history.
Life coaching is a collaborative relationship in which the client develops a personal or professional intention with the support of the coach. Together they determine steps to support that intention with goals and action steps focused on that intention. This strategy has proven powerfully effective in facilitating positive change and transition in a person’s life. The style of coaching we offer at Circle of Life Coaching is:
Simple: We gather and distill all the information that comes to us down to what we love, value and what brings us joy
Intentional: We transform that information into knowledge by committing to meaningful and purposeful life choices and experiences
Focused: We create beauty when we focus on finding the places where emotional fear may be blocking our ability to act on our dreams for physical, emotional, intellectual, spiritual and environmental wellbeing.
Generous: We release or give away the beauty we create with what we learn, what we experience and choose as our values and share ourselves in relationship to others and our world.
With a Circle of Life coach we gain insight, gather tools and learn skills to continue our journey around the Circle of Life with beauty, dignity and grace.
Why now?
Because we are not only teetering on economic depression, (setback, readjustment, repurposing, call it whatever you like), we now seem to have social, environmental, spiritual, and health, challenges the earth’s people have never faced.
We are “peaking out” on resources, patience, reasons to fight, purity, kindness, good grammar, neat handwriting and graciousness. Too many of our children are wayward; too many of our elders are sad and defensive. There is too much abuse, too much neglect, too much fear and not enough calm. Too many of our marriages are unsound; too many of our rhythms interrupted; too many of our seasons and cycles are rushed. Too many of our neighbors are unknown to us; too much of our food is grown too far away. Too many cultural and spiritual practices are obscure or extinct. There are too many droughts, too much rain, not enough jobs and too many drop outs. We live with too many extremes and feel disconnected too often.
This is our life right now. It is our crisis, if you choose to see it that way. It is also our opportunity if you choose to see it that way. This is our opportunity to center ourselves on the circle of life; to be peaceful, kind, creative, resourceful and willing to be in relationship with our earth and our universe rather than at odds.
To risk making too broad a generalization, it seems to me that everywhere I turn someone else is being called to change the way they thought life should be. We are all being called to ask for help, dust off our dreams, help someone else, and see with new eyes. We are asked to be bold, brave and beautiful. We are asked to recommit to love, kindness, honesty and peace. It is time to heal the beauty between us.
Why coaching? Why now?
Because now is the time. It really is that simple.
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