Development
Coaching is often delivered from the emotional field of care for the sake of our coachee. It is focused on supporting our coachee to mature and develop both personally and professionally. Through this development, coachees learn to build a conscious foundation to take care of their needs, develop both capacity and capability, explore their curiosities, interact within their world and with the bigger world.
In recent years, the work of Jennifer Berger Garvey, Robert Keegan, and Lisa Laskow Lahey (for example) regarding the need to integrate adult development models and awareness into the coaching process has shifted our capacity to meet our clients where they are and help to create the breakdowns they need in order to breakthrough to a higher level of personal (and therefore, professional) development.
Coaching, as we know, is a consistent practice of having conversations that up-levels the way a person thinks, brings intention to how a person manages emotions and responds to situations that could be triggering, expands consciousness, supports our coachee to change behaviors, and opens up the capacity of the client to take small risks that build self-confidence.
We do this by doing what they cannot do for their selves: listen without judgment, identify inconsistencies, paradoxes and blind spots, suggest a learning practice, and ask the questions that allow them to discover what has been invisible to them.
Each time the client brings a topic to the coaching session, it is a sign that they want to learn something different or grow their self. Each time a client comes away from the coaching with a new insight, perception, and/or practice, it is an indication that they are developing their self.
As we support our coachees to develop their selves, we help them to expand their consciousness. Through coaching we help to shift the energy and vibration of our communities and the world by allowing our clients to feel good about themselves and act in ways that authentically connect to ‘the greater good’.
Transformation
During the coaching process, an individual usually transforms their self. The transformation can entail how she or he values and perceives their self, how she or he approaches specific situations, or what she or he now holds as the foundational sets of beliefs and values from which they form relationships and take action . When perspectives are transformed, behavior transformation follows. When behavior transforms, so do the outcomes the person experiences and that are offered into their communities, work environments, and the world.
Each of us have sets of beliefs, judgments and things that we ‘know’. These beliefs and knowledge influence the way we see the world, interact with it, form relationships, hold our self, and make choices. Not all of our truths, beliefs, and judgments work in our favor. When a coachee seeks a coach and is looking to make a change, it is likely that at least one set of beliefs, judgments, and/or knowledge is no longer serving her or him, and is in fact, keeping her or him stuck in a pattern that is causing discomfort or a breakdown. The coachee is looking to transform into a more satisfying and healthier pattern that will bring greater satisfaction and success.
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