While I welcome new coaches (humanity needs more people who serve with presence), Jerry Colonna shares a wonderful reflection that coaching is about something more than making money – it’s a calling, a vocation, a way of being.
There are many people who call themselves coaches who never explore their own presence, nor seek to deepen their inquiry into their own patterns.
And you can tell – they rush to share techniques or frameworks or answers, when the power of coaching comes in sitting in the unknowing with a person to consider a “well-asked, open and honest question” without judgment.
I sometimes fall into that rush when I don’t take the time to center and ground myself, when I let my own disarray appear in trying to “prove” myself through showing how much I know.
True presence arises from having the confidence to know one’s own value without answers, to trust the miracle of life and awareness that is embodied in each of us. And that is the aspiration of a lifetime, one that I will never fully embody, but can inch closer to each day that I practice.
Thank you, Jerry, for being a role model and a mentor to all of us coaches who learn from your wisdom as an elder through the podcast, through your posts, through your books, and through your presence that permeates all you share.