This week’s TED Talk clip is from an independent TEDx event:
Successful Leaders Build and Sustain Long-term Relationships | Steve Cockram | TEDxABQSalon
Clip length: 7 mins 04 secs
Prefer to watch on TED.com? In that case you’ll need to click here.
“The Wright brothers flew right through the smoke screen of impossibility.”
(Charles Kettering)
“Three things in human life are important: the first is to be kind; the second is to be kind; and the third is to be kind.”
(Henry James)
Welcome to this weeks recap of blog posts for coaches from around the web. Each Monday on this blogs Facebook page I usually issue the following question and invitation:
“Have you written/seen a blog post in the past week that you’d think is of interest to coaches and that you’d like to share?”
Posts shared on our Facebook page this week:
These are a few posts that also attracted my attention either personally or because of readers requests to read more on a particular subject…
Want your post included next week? If you have a post that you think will be of interest to coaches do take part in tomorrow’s Monday invite and leave the details on our Facebook page. Whilst it’s lovely for posts to be sent to me via twitter, the nature of a tweet means that it can easily be overlooked when this post is being compiled at a later time. Please leave links in one place, ie the thread on our Facebook page so they can be easily shared.
“Go often to the house of a friend; for weeds soon choke up the unused path.”
(Swedish proverb)
These daily quotes are shared to be a catalyst for thought – sometimes you’ll agree and other times you’ll disagree. You may even find that you’ll have entirely different opinions and insights with the exact same quote on different occasions – feel free to share you thoughts on today’s quote below.
“We know what we are, but know not what we may be.”
(William Shakespeare)
In today’s guest post spiritual formation coach Toni Knights shares a little about Hope coaching from the perspective of a Christian coach.
There are various coaching niches and one niche gaining popularity is Hope Coaching. The principles utilised in this niche were previously mainly associated with Christian coaches. However, most clients today are going through difficult times and with the prevailing sense of hopelessness in current world affairs, it appears that we all need hope. A look at any newspapers today reveals the wave of hopelessness spreading through society.
So, what is hope coaching? It is not overly-optimistic pep-talk, but an honest empathetic provision of Biblical hope for others facing crises of belief. First, we need to understand there is a difference between false hope and Biblical hope. The former hopes in money, prestige and power etc.; while the latter hopes in God (for Christians) or the Universe (as per Spiritual seekers). As in all coaching scenarios, the coach listens to the story and looks at the client’s current situation; in addition to this, the Hope coach helps clients to move forward with a sense of expectancy.
What can hope do for us? Hope:
The five key principles of hope coaching which can be used across the niches are:
Whether you coach business clients or abused women, we could all benefit from hope. Hope coaching is for everyone.
Toni Knights is a Christian Life Coach who runs the coaching practice “Life In Process.” She also facilitates workshops that focus upon self improvement.
You can read her weekly blog at http://justthinking-knightstoni.blogspot.com.
You can also find Toni on Facebook at www.facebook.com/knightstoni
“How glorious a greeting the sun gives the mountains!”
(John Muir)