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Bhaktivedanta Coaching Newsletter

 

What is Life Coaching?

 

Coaching is a partnership that helps devotees achieve solid results in their

spiritual lives. Through the process of coaching, devotees learn more about

themselves and their goals, improve their service and enhance the quality of

their spiritual life.

 

What Happens in a Coaching Session?

 

The coaching process is designed to make the devotees more focused and aware

of their spiritual and material choices, and through this helps them to

achieve their Krsna conscious goals more quickly. The process concentrates

on where devotees are today, what they want to achieve and what they are

willing to do to achieve it. The coaching process depends on the devotee who

is coached taking responsibility for taking action, and making their own

decisions, not on the coach providing solutions.

 

In each coaching session, the devotee chooses the focus of conversation,

while the coach listens and contributes observations and questions, with the

aim of clarifying the devotee’s positions and options, in order to move them

forward into taking action.

 

It is the coach’s responsibility to help the devotee discover and clarify

what they want to achieve, encourage the devotee to discover more about

themselves and their potential, work with the devotee to achieve Krsna

conscious solutions and hold the devotee accountable for taking action.

 

The coaching relationship is built on trust and respect. It is

non-judgmental, impartial and totally confidential. The coach and devotee

will often draw up a coaching agreement, which helps clarify expectations

and mutual responsibilities.

 

How is Coaching Delivered?

 

The most important thing in a coaching session is that both the devotee and

the coach have committed their full time and attention to the session. The

session itself can be delivered face-to-face, by email or by telephone. The

telephone is so far the most popular medium for coaching as distance is not

an obstacle and communication is clear.

 

Why Coaching?

 

We use the term coaching to differentiate between other types of help,

training or intervention. Coaching is not:

 

• Teaching - is a transfer of knowledge

• Consulting - is a transfer of professional knowledge, expertise or

experience

• Therapy - is dealing with problems from the past to improve the future

 

Coaching may also help a devotee with their professional choices and career,

as this may be part of the devotee’s life.

 

Executive or business coaching is more likely to primarily focus on work,

but will also address life issues as a part of this process.

 

Whether you choose life coaching or executive coaching depends on your own

personal circumstances or choices. In either case, you will receive the

benefits of focused time and attention, the opportunity to think clearly

about what you want to achieve and where you want to go, with no

interruptions from other things happening in your life.

 

Influences

 

There are many influences on the field of coaching - from the familiar

ground of sports coaching to philosophical and psychological models. Other

influences include education, consulting, mentoring, training, counselling,

leadership and organisational development and personal development.

 

The field of coaching is constantly developing. The Bhaktivedanta Coaching

is carefully observing this development and using the available knowledge

and tools in serving Krsna's devotees.

 

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