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I was struck to ask this question after attending my meditation class today, which runs two different types of meditation. The person who led the meditation was talking to a new ‚Äúmeditator” about the two types, mindfulness of breathing and loving kindness, and said most people tend to have a preference for one type or the other.
How does that resonate with you when it comes to your coaching competencies?
My favourite, I think, is linked into this sense of mindfulness as a coach – being able to create a sense of coaching presence. For me, that’s created by a deep grounding before, during and after my time with a client – by allowing myself to be fully in the moment with the client – dancing in that moment – in a sense of lightness. I can do this when I get out of my own way as a coach, something I am starting to get better at through supervision‚Ķ recognizing how I get in my own way!
Being present for me is about letting go of what I think should happen, what my experience tells me could happen, and letting the space open and evolve as we work together on the client’s goal for the session.
So – what’s your favourite competency as a coach, and why? What does it add to your coaching?
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Claire, a marvelous “difference detecting” question to pose to the coaching community at large! As a coach and teacher of meditation, I find the neuro-cognitive preference speaks to the somatic and cognitive orientation one has to the world. Those of us who prefer the “attention and awareness training” or mindfulness sort, draw on already well honed cognitive skills. And as a somatic trainer, there are those of us who enjoy connecting our whole neuro program, if you will, by means of breathing and moving meditation. My preference: mindful movement and breathing meditation! I’m at my best when my embodied brain is balanced and tuned up by blood flow and energized neural networking!
I’d be curious to learn of base line studies that look at cognitive and affective types in relation to meditation choice.
May the Breath Be With You!
Doc G.
The George Greenstein Institute, creating a sustainable future by coaching bodies, brains and minds!
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(you can find blogs on meditation under “Spacious Minds.”)
P.S. I wrote my doctoral dissertation on “attention and awareness” training practices used by 20th century American dancers. The range was determined by people’s choreographic intent. Ah the complexities involved of training neuroplasticity!