At its heart the Trans Form Coaching model implies the development and enhancement of skills of awareness. The question is how do you position yourself so that you can observe from this new perspective? How do you learn to centre yourself in the depths of being? It is not as difficult as it sounds but it does require practice!
Thinking about what coaching actually is, one could say it is the active raising of conscious awareness. Indeed a successful outcome to any coaching session is guaranteed if through skilful listening the coach raises their own awareness and through skilful questioning succeeds in helping the client to raise theirs. This forms the basis of all traditional training.
By practicing awareness exercises it is possible to learn to reposition yourself and start to gain a new perspective and of course it doesn’t actually matter from where you start as skills increase from any starting point. The practice of meditation where you enter into the silence of ‘being’ is one way to increase the awareness of formlessness…you could start to build this awareness each day simply by taking five minutes out, closing your eyes and focusing on your breathing. The key is to just be, to allow yourself to let go of all thoughts including those about whether you are achieving anything.
Experience of the interaction between form and formlessness can be noticed regularly. It’s the ‘ah’ moment when you see a sunset or the shining eyes of a child; it’s a recognition of something deeper than the event itself. It is the ‘light bulb’ moment in coaching. The practice of ‘mindfulness’, which is being present to the moment while you attend to your everyday life, is one way to increase this kind of awareness….a very simple exercise is to simply stop at points throughout the day and pay attention to your breathing by specifically counting three ‘in’ and ‘out’ breaths and smiling.
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