Coaching is a Beautiful Thing

The more I delve into my coaching journey, the more I realise how complex it is. The way I see it is if you look at a coach from the outside, its like a duck (yes one that goes quack). You see the duck sat on top of the water floating away, paddling to

hearts content, catching all the breadcrumbs and basking in the midday sun – you get the picture. Only underneath the duck is frantically paddling like fuck trying to avoid drowning and being eaten by all the nasties that are out there.

It may seem like a strange extreme analogy, but sometimes this is how it feels – the more I learn, the more I realise I don’t know. And what I thought I knew – I question.

Is this the way that most coaches feel? I don’t know, I can only speak for myself. Most coaches out there look like the have their shit together. But I do believe that if one ever professed to know everything I would be 99% sure that they would be lying. Yep dam straight – It’s just not possible.

Concepts are changing,

ideas are being remodelled, and there is always a flip to an argument.

And that’s just the theory side to coaching! Which from my experience is only part of the job. After all this profession is dealing with people, not machines.

Unique intelligent people, who often let their emotional brain get the better of them. We have all been there, your rational side tells you why you should eat the food that is going to be most beneficial to you in the long run, but your emotional brain tells you that you just NEED that extra slice of pizza (check out the following blog post if you are a pizza lover) despite being full to the brim – sound familiar?

So when it comes to coaching we need to be empathetic, understanding, good communicators and listeners, mind readers, support workers and friends.

It’s a challenge, but when everything comes together and you find that sweet spot of knowledge that is passed across to a client, is interpreted, understood and most of all is beneficial – It’s a truly beautiful thing.

Everybody needs to know their coach is on their side.

Coach B x