Create Courageously
So you and your clients are really rockin’ that saboteur awareness and calling out imposters, gremlins and limiting beliefs like crazy! But what’s next? The multiplicity of our internal resources is vast and as we focus on the whole person of our client, we can call in other parts of them to champion, advocate, declare truth, and express compassion toward themselves as they grow and transform.
One of those internal resources for flourishing is what we call the Inner Witness. You can find a script for guided imagining to meet your Inner Witness in the Coaching Resources section of the Co-Lab, and now there is a recording as well. Use this to work through the imagining yourself or share with your clients as homework in-between sessions.
Choose Aliveness
In this skill refresh, Megan explains a definition of the soul and its function and ways that we can help our clients access that dimension of themselves for increased flow experiences.
Team Coaching using the RHETI Assessment in Fall 2020
Discover Purpose
Do you love the Enneagram yet? We’re big fans. There are so many different ways of understanding and using it in coaching! If you’d like to start using the Enneagram with clients, here are two things that will help:
1. The RHETI - This assessment has the best test-retest reliability when compared to other Enneagram assessment tools, and we love the extensive and insightful report that you and your clients receive. You can set up a business login through Enneagram Institute or email assess@larkssong.com and order your codes directly from us.
2. Enneagram Spring Summit - Mark your calendars for April 18th and May 2nd from 1-4 and 6-9 PM EST! Megan and LSCCs Seth Harshman and Christina Crump will be serving up some real Enneagram goodness. Registration starts on March 7th (and you can use your LSCC Co-Lab discount)!
Joe DeGraaf (Cohort 12) at Coaching & Self….gettin’ it. (Jill seems to be having a very different experience.)
Develop Potential
Check out this incredible article authored by Joe DeGraaf, LSCC (Cohort 12) and published in Choice Magazine on using the Enneagram to “dive deeper into awareness coaching” with your clients.
Megan, Aubrey (C12), and Erica (C2) having SO much fun at group coaching and well-being training with the Westminster Preschool staff in February 2021.
Lead to Serve
Awhile back, I was just starting Lark’s Song - and in all my feels! I did not know how to resolve the tension between wanting to serve people by offering exactly what they said they needed by managing myself into something that might be able to deliver that OR following flow and resonance and just creating what I was inspired to create. So, of course, I brought this to a coaching session, and my coach said something that I still have on a post-it note on my mirror. She said, “Megan. What you have done so far is a pilot that proves that what you create serves!”
She was essentially saying that this is a both/and situation, not an either/or. She was also saying that I couldn’t create without serving or serve without creating. And I think that, perhaps, this was when I first started to recognize that I could not sustain this work without offering reciprocal hospitality for my soul within myself.
We work hard as coaches to create spaces and sessions where our client’s souls are safe to show up. Those shy, wild, unique and interdependent parts of themselves. However, it is equally important that we put effort in to creating soulful habitats for ourselves - that as we are triggered by the transference of clients’ topics and working through our own transformation, we make space and time and ritual for grounding, nourishing and welcoming ourselves home within our own bodies and our own physical environments (offices, homes, etc.).
The more space we give our souls to show up, the more we will see them. The more intentional we are about creating physical safety by crafting invitation through our five senses, the more our soul is beckoned forth. Your soul is the part of you that is inextricably linked to your identity and sense of aliveness. It is distinct yet interconnected to all the other dimensions of your self - body, mind, heart, and spirit. Your soul’s function is to organize the other parts of yourself into aligned wholeness. And just like anything else, making sure the dimensions of your self function properly often takes learning, unlearning, relearning and deliberate practice.
So what might practicing coaching with the soul look like for you this month? I bet whatever the practice creates will serve.
Reflection Questions:
What environment(s) make my soul come alive?
What do my senses notice about those environments? What do they look, sound, smell, feel and taste like?
How could I intentionally introduce those sensory elements into the space where I practice coaching?
Which of those elements might I be able to carry with me wherever I go - possibly in my wardrobe or pockets?
Affirmation: My soul is good and whole. I prioritize creating a hospitable place for it within myself and my world.