Presence-Based Coaching

Introduction

We work on ourselves in order to help others, and also we help others in order to work on ourselves.

 

Pema Chödrön

 

 

 

MANY YEARS AGO, I FACED A SIGNIFICANT PROFESSIONAL challenge. I was about to fly overseas to teach a ten-day seminar to a group of Latin American professors at a prestigious business school. It was early in my career, and I was terrified. I was positive that the participants in the seminar would be smarter than me, more knowledgeable about the subject matter, skeptical, resistant, and questioning of my competence.

I spoke with my mentor the day before I left. He saw capacities in me that I was not yet able to see in myself. He calmly reminded me of indisputable evidence about my competence, ability to design, and ...