Am I good enough? Illuminate the dark // Flow Discovery

Just be with the client

Wow, I’m still full of energy after the 3-day co-active coaching module with more than 20 fellow coaches. It’s like an energy wave moving and moving. I’ve experienced experiential learning at its best thanks to a team of fully dedicated, supportive, challenging, inspiring, centred, joyful and curious leaders and assistants. We have played multiple roles: coach, client, observer, reflector, listener, experience sharer, player.

The three days have been focused on the now: yes, simply to be here and now with my client as a coach. To sense what the client can’t be with, i.e. emotions which the coachee avoids, to name it, go deeper and explore the places the client doesn’t like to be. And we went even more profound.

A process in service of clients stuck in an emotional state. To release their energy and keep on moving. We are longing for an amplified life.

Am I good enough?

So for me, what I can’t be with is feeling not good enough. I’m so grateful that my peers coached me in many different constellations during the three days.

They made me aware of what has already been in me by articulating what is going on, being with me, and taking charge of my agenda.

Coach illuminates the dark

Danny has shared a good analogy: the coach holds a torchlight and explores what’s inside them with the clients’ permission. Last night when I woke up, I had the picture of a coach as an ambassador of light.

Hence, co-active process coaching has a profound impact in ways a client and the coach cannot foresee. Co-active coaching is about trusting intuition, holding the space, and dancing in the moment. This intuitive moment is also what I’ve experienced with my client on Saturday evening. And what made me feel proud was her feedback: “I thought it was great!”

And yes, I’m good enough, and this post is good enough 😉