Whether you are a coach, or a natural helper, let’s start with this question:
Have you ever felt the true power that resides in you?
The real you. Including the fears, the hesitations, the blocks, the old beliefs you carry. Including the strength you have, the love you feel in every cell of your body, the truth you carry in your heart, and the willingness that serves you in your mind?
We are so quick to embrace some parts of our experience as ‘good’ and ‘beautiful’ and ‘helpful’, and label others things like ‘negative’, ‘wrong’ or ‘shameful’.
But maybe you have felt what it is like when all of you is welcomed. When you are welcoming of all of your own experience. The good, the bad and the ugly.
Then you know that magic happens when we allow it all into our awareness, without pushing anything away, or denying parts of us. Then, we feel not just seen and respected. We start to feel whole again.
A wholeness that includes everything. That tells us that we are not broken in the first place. This in itself is a magical experience, one that feeds our connection with our soul.
And this is where Soul-based Coaching starts.
Not because of anything we do, but because of the way we Hold Space.
And from here, we invite our clients to dive into their inner world in a way that often surprises them and feels right very quickly.
This is the world of their inner metaphors, the ‘operating system’ for their body/soul/mind system.
It is where they quite easily find their current truth and what they would like to have happen. And they experience how they can build the operating system they want, in an almost magical way.
This is the process Soul-based Coaches are skilled in: to guide clients so that they can make it happen. While we do not interfere with their operating system in any way..
This might seem strange: are coaches not meant to know how to make things happen?
But when you dive into this level, you will understand in your bones how not getting in the way makes for the most powerful changes. In fact, how it is the only way for the metaphor ‘operating system’ to actually evolve.
The changes that result are often made in an instant, and are deeply embedded in the body/mind/soul system of our clients.
The process presupposes and supports our clients’ wholeness. And it is the foundation for making meaningful and connected change happen.
Just because we are not broken, it doesn’t mean that we are living the Life we Came Here for. Or are enjoying all parts of our lives.
Would you like to know how to get to the heart of the matter for all the people you want to support? And a way to support them that does not get in the way of their own knowing, their personal superpowers and their way of easily making changes?
To find out more, here is a short overview: What is Soul-based Coaching?
The feeling that everything about me is OK, really EVERYTHING, is the warmest and most beautiful feeling I know. I don’t feel it all the time, far from it! But I know how healing it is. And you, Annemiek, are a pro in letting this feeling rise in other people. It was a priviledge to be tought by you. When I notice it in a client – first the surprise when this OK-feeling comes up, then the pure happiness about it – then I know, I am doing something soooo valuable for this person just by doing nothing, except holding a loving space.
I love how you are putting everything you have learned into practice Sigrun. And you are so right. Being completely and fully accepted in exactly what and how we are in that moment – that in itself is so incredibly healing. What a gift we share with our clients.