Have you met professionals who seem to rely disproportionately on their considerable language and reasoning skills to navigate their lives and work?
I have loved working with many lawyers and research scientists over recent years and have noticed the freedom they experience from bringing their creative sides to their coaching journeys.
And occasionally this involves choosing a topic of enquiry and sitting with it together without talking. Recently, I spent over 35 minutes of a coaching session with a legal professional in silence. It wasn’t planned. It was their choice as to whether or not to speak. It was clear from the range of body language we shared that important work was being done.
The power of accompanying someone through painful transitions, career and personal. Some have called it the theology of ‘being there’.
Credit: Banksy (2004) Barcode Leopard