What a beautiful profession coaching is! I truly enjoy looking deeply with someone into what is happening beneath the surface. Sometimes it’s necessary to unravel what is holding a coachee back from being fully themselves. And then, based on those insights, to let go of what’s outdated and mobilize courage and resilience to take powerful steps forward. 

At other moments, it’s about looking more deeply into the potential hidden within an event or situation—perhaps a message or an invitation for the coachee to recognize something within themselves, transform it, and set it free. And from this new foundation, to move through life with more lightness and freedom. 

And without exception, the starting point is simply allowing the situation the coachee is in—or the feeling it evokes—to be there. To accept that what is, is. That there is nothing you can change about that part anymore. Our first impulse is often to avoid it, pretend it doesn’t exist, or to resist it—to try and make it go away in one way or another. Just take a moment and ask yourself: how do you deal with situations you wish hadn’t happened, or that caught you off guard? 

The way forward always begins with acceptance. This word is often misunderstood: it does not mean you suddenly have to “like” or approve of the situation you’re in. No, it means acknowledging that the situation has happened as a reality, a fact. That you stop resisting it. The next step is to become willing to step into it with intention and awareness, driven by a desire to discover what there is to learn for you. 

That is the moment when the most beautiful conversations unfold, when the proverbial penny drops, when deep insights arise, and inner shifts take place. There’s that spark in the coachee’s eyes, energy opens up, and they can hardly wait to step back into the situation—now from a greater and strengthened sense of being. 

That moment—the moment of inner shift, of moving from stuck to free, from blocked to energized and in motion again—that is what makes coaching such a beautiful profession! 

• Take a moment to reflect on how you normally respond to events or situations you would rather not have experienced. Do you ignore them, avoid them, resist them, or are you able to flow with them? 

• What does your usual response bring you? 

• What happens when you become curious about the underlying message or the larger process that may be unfolding? 

• And then ask yourself: Who am I being invited to become in this? 

• And what is one first step you can take? 

I wish you a joyful reflection and exploration!