Celebrating the International Coaching Week in Bucharest, thanks to Business-Edu, coaches and clients (as well as potential coaches and potential clients) are enjoying a rare opportunity of sharing thoughts and rising questions together.
My Monday evening topic – The Coaching Mix – focused on the talents coaches use to give value to the process and boost results: intuition (presentation attached), innovation, imagination, creativity and the spiritual quotient (SQ). I was impressed not only by the number of people joining the conversation (we were expecting a dozen maybe, and ended up almost 30!), but by the directions in which the topics drove us.
- What is the difference between wisdom and spiritual development? Is the latter just a fad notion? I need to look into this more, but my instinct was that these words cover the same path with some small, yet important difference: the former is the end of the road, implying experience, while the latter is the path itself, opened to people regardless of age and such…Spiritual development is a way of enhancing one’s intuition (this is how the issue was raised in the first place)…
- Why are we taking about spirituality all of a sudden? I guess it has to do with the fact that more and more people are searching the deep core of their actions and feelings, and coaching assisting them have to deal with spiritual needs at a certain point…
- Is coaching leaning towards psychology? Definitely not, considering the time orientation – psychology deals with the past, tries to explain it and decide based on it, while coaching is related to future actions
The evening made my week because I felt my conviction that the coaching talents approached in this Coaching Mix can be developed (as opposed to being innate) passed on to the group. I sincerely believe we are a 10 in all of them and that it’s only a matter of exercise and discipline to let these talents work for us and our clients.
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