Presence-Based Coaching

CHAPTER 9

Coach for Self-Observation and Realization

To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else.

 

Emily Dickinson

 

In the world to come, I shall not be asked, “Why were you not Moses?” I shall be asked, “Why were you not Zusya?”

 

Rabbi Zusya

 

 

 

WE BEGIN OUR DISCUSSION OF RELATIONAL COACHING MOVES with self-observation, since self-awareness is the basis for everything that follows. There are specific coaching moves that encourage self-observation, and we can design practices for it.

I’ve lumped realization with self-observation into one chapter, even though it’s a distinct component. Realization is simply something that happens in us. It arises from self-observation; we don’t have realization moves.

What follows is a range ...