A Massive Heart Beating Outwards
On Friendship | Between the Lines - A Coaching Column
Hello, dear readers, hello Yasmin.
This is my second edition of Between the Lines, a Coaching Column, exclusive for my paying subscribers (the first one was free, which you can read here). I felt called to respond with a video instead of a written response to give space for emotions.
But first, an insight from a coaching conversation for everyone.
INSIGHTS FROM A COACHING CONVERSATION
You don’t always need to move to a solution, to fix the problem, to identify an action.
Recently, a person brought a difficult experience to our conversation and I asked: How do you want to spend our time together? What are you hoping to get out of this today?
“In a world where I’m often asked to fix my problems and where moving into action is my default, I think today, I just want to be with it; explore it; neuroqueer by staying in the present instead of jumping to the future,” was their courageous answer.
And so we did; we co-created beautiful metaphors, laughed together, played with different ideas, painted a picture with words and images in our minds.
No fixing; only presence.
I can’t help but think what a beautiful goal this might be for a coaching relationship: To learn and practice to be more present and accepting with what is instead of rushing to fix things.
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BETWEEN THE LINES: A MASSIVE HEART BEATING OUTWARDS
Yasmin came to me with a question about friendship: What do you do when you want a deeper, closer relationship with a friend, but you don’t know if that feeling is mutual?
“I’m longing to overflow.”
