Before watching the video presentation, answer these questions in groups:
- Does your company offer professional or personal
coaching for its staff?
- Have you ever taken any course with a coach? What
was it about? What was the experience like?
___ In
our logical world, we put a huge amount of emphasis on the physical, and we
seem to ignore the emotional. However, emotional limitations are by far the
most powerful forces that keep you from getting where you want to be. They
cloud our judgment; we feel heavy and unable to see the person we truly are.
___ A
coacher´s job is tap into your creativity and resourcefulness through
confidential, non-judgmental dialogue.
___ Sometimes
this involves surface strategies like goal setting or habit change, but what
about those factors under the surface that seem to repeatedly take us to an
undesired series of outcomes?
___ Coaching
is becoming known as the best method for taking anyone from where they are
today to where they want to be.
___ Here´s
how it all works: Your beliefs drive your thoughts, and your thoughts drive
your emotions. Let´s break this down a bit: for most people, they know they are
physically capable of achieving everything they want out of life.
Complete the blanks as you listen:
Emotion
can be described as a psycho-physiological reaction to a thought. Think about
that for a moment: your emotions are ………………. ……………………….. to your thoughts. Most
people think that their emotions are triggered by what ……………………… …………….. ………
…………..; contexts or circumstances ………………………. ………… their control. If this is
true, you become a victim of everything going on around you! You´re in the back
seat, and your driver´s had one too many!
So,
if your thoughts ……………….. your emotions, what if you could simply observe your
thoughts and decide which ones ……….. ……………………..? What if you and your thoughts …………………….
…………………………..? When you are your thoughts, you are ……… …………………… When you observe your thoughts, you begin to ………………
…………………...
This
separation between self and thought is the single most powerful ………………………. to
anyone for self-development or personal transformation.
Detect and correct the mistakes
in the following sentences as you watch:
So,
where do these ideas come from?
They
come from you unconsidered beliefs.
Simply
put, your beliefs are your personal filter. A series of actions that you´ve
made about yourself and the world, that were heavily established by your upbringing, schooling and
culture.
The
clues to discovering these beliefs are found by connecting your thoughts. Once
you and your coach bring these certainties out in the open, you can keep the
ones that help you, and let go of the ones that don´t.
Continue watching until the
end. Pay attention to the words in bold; discuss their meaning in class:
When
an unhelpful negative belief is
undone, it no longer generates negative thoughts and, therefore, cannot hold you back or cause you pain.
The
triggers to your emotions are also
uncovered by observing your thoughts. Sometimes it´s not necessary to undo the underlying belief. When you
recognize the absurdity of some of your thoughts, you can simply find a
healthier substitute.
Through
the coaching process, your new way of thinking is reinforced, and the old ones
begin to weaken and fade away. Once you have awareness, there´s no going back to
your old patterns. You will begin to see the world in a new and exciting way,
and you may even laugh at how you used to react emotionally to certain
situations that now simply have no negative meaning for you.
You
will no longer carry that heaviness with you wherever you go because, the
coaching conversation helps you to let
go of the weight.
When
you are lighter, you are more in tune
with your intuition, your creativity and your have clarity in your life. The
invisible barrier between you and what you want simply disappears. This is the
power of the coaching conversation.
What
part of your life isn´t what you want it to be? What are you waiting for?
After watching:
- Do you agree with the ideas expressed? Is it as
easy as it seems to be?
- How can you “coach” someone who is feeling
unhappy about a professional or personal situation?
