Why Coaching? Why Now?
Posted on April 18, 2018 by Martha Pasternack, One of Thousands of Life Coaches on Noomii.
The challenges facing us today are unprecedented in recent history. So, why coaching and why now?
Because now is the time. It is that simple.
Why coaching?
I 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 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 does one go for help and support?
I have recently been told that somewhere around 70,000 people search “life coaching” every day. I imagine that this number changes with the challenges people face; and by the way, these challenges alter everyday life as well. The challenges facing us today are unprecedented in recent history. So, why coaching and why now?
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. One approach I use as a life coach is to travel around the “circle of life” with my client. These are the qualities, steps, and stages of this journey:
• Simple: We gather and distill relevant information down to what you love, value, and what brings you joy.
• Intentional: You transform that information into knowledge by committing to meaningful and purposeful life choices and experiences.
• Focused: You create beauty when you focus on finding the places where emotional fear may be blocking your ability to act on your dreams. This embraces your physical, emotional, intellectual, spiritual and environmental well being.
• Generous: you release or give way to the beauty you create with what you learn, what you experience and choose as your values. You are then free to share yourself in relationship to others and your world.
With a life coach, you gain insight, gather tools and learn skills to continue your 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 dropouts. We live with too many extremes and feel disconnected too often.
Such 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 choice is our opportunity to center ourselves on the circle of life; to be peaceful, kind, creative, resourceful and willing to be in a relationship with our earth and our universe rather than at odds.
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 make a choice: ask your self, “Will I choose to see crisis or opportunity?” Either way, you choose, the stream of life flows towards healing making healing always possible. It is time to heal; ourselves, our families, our communities. It is time to heal the beauty between us.
Why Coaching and why now? Because now is the time. It is that simple.
What is one way you can reconnect with your dream right now?
