I really appreciate what we’ve been learning in the Advanced Hours and have intentionally been making more room for the intrinsic in the world around me. I am personally seeing that Intrinsic Coaching® is not really about ‘using’ or ‘doing’ the methodology. It’s more than that. It’s about activating my own best thinking, increasing my own understanding, my own awareness of the intrinsic and making that space available for people to find their best thinking because of it.
I’m recognizing that the systemic and extrinsic are definitely there (and should be there), but that the intrinsic is weak and is allowed little room (if any) in conversations. I am realizing that the more my awareness of the intrinsic increases, the more I’m choosing to work with I>E>S in my own thinking and then allowing it to come through to the person I’m talking with. This has changed my thinking around what an Intrinsic Coaching® conversation is. I am realizing that with Intrinsic Coaching® it’s never just a start and then a stop because the conversation is ending. It’s more of a continuous process of being with the person that I’m talking with allowing the increased attention to the intrinsic, and supporting the continuing unfolding that will go on past the conversation. It’s a beautiful add-in to any conversation whether that be in a coaching session or in a general conversation. I’ve enjoyed my heightened awareness and my broadening of looking at intrinsic as a way of thinking, a way of being, for myself. As a result, I’m allowing the intrinsic to come in as much as possible whether it be in a personal situation, group facilitation, or a conversation with my child.
Again, I’m enjoying this widening awareness, focusing more on I>E>S and working with that in totality. The Intrinsic Coaching® methodology gives me an additional way of thinking and I’m appreciating how this is really expanding in me and becoming more a part of my own life. This is a privilege for me. Every conversation, every moment deepens my knowing, my awareness, my ability as an Intrinsic Coach® than what it was a moment before. I’m seeing things that I haven’t seen before and really appreciating the growth process around me and within me.
Tertia Putter, Wellness Africa
