We, humans, are made to survive. Emotions are meant to protect us. How can you coach with the ability to understand and express emotions? Touching on the same lines Sabrina Park spoke on Coaching for Emotional Ability at Coaching Matters. Read here to know what you missed.
From Sabrina’s Session on Coaching Matters
You aren’t coaching for your own agenda.
The first indicator of a coach mindset is when, you acknowledge that clients are responsible for their own choices.
It is when you realize that you support their definition of success and partner with them to achieve that end.
A coach has to make a promise that coaching is not equal to pushing your decisions or agenda. Â
Here are some details from Sabrina Park’s session on Coaching Matters on 22 December 2021.
The Definition of Emotion as Coach
When you think about emotion, why do we have an emotion even though we do not know the definition of that?
Many people think that being emotional is not good.
And I want to say we should understand the emotion as a coach. So I don’t take emotion as a good or bad thing because emotions are the energy to keep us in motion. People are very sensitive.
Human beings get our information through six senses. As you know, with eyes we see, with ears we hear, with nose we smell, with tongue we taste, our body and skin we feel. Our brain thinks when we see when we get the information. We get the information through these sixth senses. So, we human beings are very sensitive.
So think about that. If you were in a forest alone, and there is a sound.
How do you react to that? We would be very sensitive to the sound. We would wonder what happened.
We use the six senses to get information because to survive the purpose of which human being is also one of the purposes is to survive. So, we are very sensitive, that is the characteristic of a human being. You know winter is very cold, summer is very hot, it is characteristic of the seasons. Same goes for human beings. Â
Last many, many 1000 years people needed to survive. So, they are very sensitive. We all are the result of sensitive ancestors. So, we are the survivors. We are very sensitive.
Our clients are very sensitive. So, emotion is one of the ways to protect ourselves. So, we will feel sad. That means, our body and our brain also want to protect us. We need to interpret our emotions very well. It is very important as a coach to understand the people. So, coaches ease the facial expression and the way of the dress, it also impacts the coachee so they can open more minds to us at the coaching session.
