pro·fane - prəˈfān, verb: grossly irreverent toward what is held to be sacred. Coaching often tries to present itself in one of two ways by many of the major practitioners of the craft … Socratic - very mild, gentle and nurturing, as the ultimate helping intervention that never interferes with the personal process of the individual being coached by adding anything or offering anything to them that they haven’t presented first themselves. Serious - very precise, impactful and professional, as a way to awaken and access higher levels of performance and especially interpersonal performance for executives, entrepreneurs, professionals and anyone seeking to lead others in any way. Okay, let’s agree … those are two ways to consider coaching, and perfectly valid ones at that. Let’s also agree that it wouldn’t be too hard to find training or mentoring as a coach following one of those two paths either. Now let’s set both of those ways of presenting coaching aside completely Continue Reading
This Ain’t No Zen!
If it ain't Zen, WTF is the MythoSelf Process then??? Essentially the MythoSelf Process is the “the ability to freely play and take action” it’s about “being childlike and creative in the way you experience, approach and show up in the world” … but, it ain’t Zen, or any other frackin’ thing either … we’ll come back to all this, but first we need to lay some groundwork. Sometimes folks who come to experience the MythoSelf Process or to learn “how to do it” meaning that they want to become proficient in running the process with others as well as for themselves, assume that the MythoSelf Process is “like” Zen or something. Here’s the first rule of the MythoSelf Process (NO! The first rule of MythoSelf is NOT: “You do not talk about MythoSelf.”): The first rule of MythoSelf is: “THIS IS NOT THAT.” Let’s start there things are themselves, i.e: what they are, no more, no less and not “LIKE” something other than themselves, regardless of what we’re referring Continue Reading
Who You Gonna Call? (When Things Go All Pear Shaped)
pear shaped A British expression used to indicate that something has gone horribly wrong with a person's plans, most commonly in the phrase "It's all gone pear shaped." A term meaning "to go to hell in handbasket" or "when the shit hits the fan." Reportedly of British or Cockney origin, from the Royal Air Force's description of circular flight paths gone awry, or "pear-shaped." From: Urban Dictionary, http://tiny.cc/2rx2ty I had an interesting experience over the last 24 hours. I began breaking one of my own rules to live by: ”When you ask an expert for their opinion be prepared to take it, or don’t ask.” This doesn’t mean blindly follow anyone … ever!!! But, if you’ve vetted the expert, and trust your process for determining they’re an expert, or even that they might be an expert, accept what they are saying has weight. Now, I’m a big fan of Master Al Ridenhour’s advice he gives me all the time as I’ve been studying Guided Chaos with him, ”It’s okay to use Continue Reading
Life Is Movement
The Magic of Movement Do you recognize the magic in movement ... or like most people do you take it for granted that humans move? Think about that comment for a moment. We typically don't even notice we have the capacity for or access to movement, despite being in movement virtually in a constant way, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 357 days a year, year after year ... even when we sleep (except for very brief periods of REM sleep paralysis, and even then breathing and eye movement is happening). The exception to this ignorance of familiarity seems to be when we are in pain or unable to move in the ways we want. There's a second factor as well that falls within the scope of the magic of movement ... i.e.: how our physical bodily movement is reflected in and by our thoughts, and how in mirror form our thoughts are reflected in and by our movement. There are many sources that document this at a very precise level, for example the work of Dr. Paul Ekman on micro expressions Continue Reading
