Describing coaching and the experience of a coaching conversation is notoriously difficult. So I wrote this poem for new clients. Maybe it speaks to you in some way?
Amid the demands and desires
The plans and the chaos
The haste and the stuckness
The excitement and fears
The wanting to be more and do more
And sometimes less
There is the space you yearn for
A place to be still for a moment
To reconnect
And just be
And then, maybe for a change, find yourself
And, maybe be real
And, maybe, instead of saying the things you’re bored of hearing yourself say
You talk about what you really want to talk about
And maybe what you don’t, but know you need to
And, at last, be heard, and understood
Not told, not fixed
But maybe inspired
A place where you can untangle, unwind
Stretch, smile
Be calm, energised, creative, whole
Where you can see the familiar from new perspectives
Where hard decisions are perhaps not so hard
Where dreams can get the breath of life
Where you walk new paths
And discover with joy
And at long last
Find what you have long sought
I call it coaching.
Welcome.
It’s good to see you.
©Neil Scotton
