Coaching Being

Personal Freedom in Coaching Being

Abstract:
“Establishing Trust and Intimacy with the Client” and “Establish and Maintain relationship of Trust” are listed on the first line of the 11 Competence of ICF and the 9 Masteries of IAC respectively. Barbra Sunquist has categorized Thomas Leonard’s #4, #7, #9, #10, #13 and #15 of the 15 Proficiencies to align with the 1st Mastery of IAC.

Back to 2002, I had an impression that whoever wants to become a coach, most of them must attend the “Personal Foundation” and the “Personal Freedom” courses offered by CoachU and Coachville respectively. I took the “Personal Freedom” course which is considered as the short form of “Personal Foundation”. The course beneficiary a lot to my personal development that may be so called as “Coaching Being” I refer herewith.

So far in Hong Kong, I only found Angela Spaxman and Jaime Simpson offered the “Personal Foundation” program back in year 2002-2005. I offered twice the “Personal Freedom” Teleclass in Hong Kong and in addition two workshops in Guangzhou and Shenzhen in 2004-2006. I suspect there may be some new coaches are taking the said courses directly with CoachU and Coachville. Yet, most of the intensive coaching programs in the market are focused on coaching skill, coaching structure and coaching business than personal development. As a result, I see some of the coaches are more like a trainer than a coach for their absence of the Coaching Being or Coaching Presence.

I, therefore, have a thought to package the “Personal Freedom” course focally for coaches in building their Coaching Beings.

The 10 Pillars of Personal Freedom in Coaching Being:

1. Extend your boundaries in Coaching in order to maximize your capacity.
2. Share your requirements in Coaching so others and your environment will be able to respond appropriately.
3. Raise your standards in Coaching to bring out your best.
4. Finish what is unfinished in Coaching so that the past is completed and nothing is hanging on.
5. Get your personal needs met in Coaching so that you are free to be fully with other people and ideas.
6. Orient around your values in Coaching to create a sustainable base for goal-setting.
7. Build reserves in all areas in Coaching in order to expand your capacities and minimize limits.
8. Minimize tolerations in Coaching in order to absence drains.
9. Handle your money in Coaching completely. Period.
10. Define success on your terms in Coaching so that your benchmarks and accomplishments make sense to you and are easy to recognize.