Coaching and Learning to Coach on the Thirdspace Professional Coaching Course, Episode 393
What would it be to learn to help other people turn deeply towards their own lives? We’ve been asking this question in many ways over the past more than seven years, and this week we turn towards a great love of ours, the Thirdspace Professional Coaching Course, which is designed around this very question.
This year’s course begins in June and applications are coming in. In this rich conversation we talk together about what it is to be an attentive, compassionate and wise support for the development of others, and what it might be like to learn with us over the course of a year.
⏵ You can find out more about the programme on the Thirdspace website here.
Episode Overview
00:00 Introduction to the Thirdspace Professional Coaching Course
03:03 The Heart of Integral Development Coaching
05:59 Navigating Life's Interruptions with Creativity and Compassion
08:47 The Role of Community in Learning to Coach
12:03 Coaching is Learning to Turn Towards Life
14:58 The Importance of Belonging and Contribution
17:51 Embracing Creativity and Courage in Difficult Times
21:06 The Journey of Self-Discovery
23:55 Practical Skills for Life and Coaching
27:00 Conclusion and Invitation to Join
30:38 Taking Up Our "Right Size" in the World
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Coaching and Learning to Coach
Every so often in life we pause and make note of the person we have become and the one we are becoming. Sometimes this reflection is prompted by professional circumstances, like a promotion, performance review, job change, or firing. Just as often it emerges from the “rest of life” – as through an illness, death, or the beginning or ending of a relationship. Whatever the origin, these experiences can feel like an opportunity or a burden, a chance to develop or a painful lesson…and often both. How we make sense of these experiences often determines what actions we take, and this, of course, influences our competence and fulfilment in life. Wouldn’t it be wonderful, in these moments, to have someone by our side to ask skilful questions, listen deeply, be fully present with who we are and what we say, point out our blind spots, and custom-design practices to help us move forward? And wouldn’t it be marvellous, too, to be this person for others?
The Professional Coaching Course (PCC) exists in large part due to the primacy of these questions for ourselves and the people we serve.
Integral Development Coaching is what happens when two people develop a professional relationship that is grounded in mutual trust and respect, directed toward a set of clear outcomes, guided by presence, and informed by broad models about what it means to be a human being. It is a methodology. It is an integration project. It is a moment when you feel deeply connected to yourself and others, with a deep acceptance of everything, and you take practical steps to move forward in life. It is both simpler and more complex than it sounds.
James Flaherty and Amiel Handelsmann
From ‘Integrating Rigour, Compassion, and Creative Design - an Introduction to Integral Development Coaching and the PCC’
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