Coaching: Listening As A Service 

Sustained Commitment
to reclaim our humanity and human evolution

When software eats the whole world,
Let Coaching restore the full spectrum of human competencies

  1. General Knowledge Competency: How capable are people of applying/converting relevant knowledge into strategies?

Interpersonally Competency: How aware people build

Self-Knowledge Competency: How well do people understand their value and beliefs, even subconscious unknown drives, pertaining to their actions and goals?

Somatic Competency: How well do people appreciate the untapped intelligence of his or her body? as a critical means to understand different situations?

Emotional Competency: How well do people appreciate and differentiate levels of emotional experience in terms of their unique connections to evoke human empathy?

Moral Competency:

Benefit of coaching: restore human innate agency

What is human agency?

Intentionality: The capacity to make proactive choices and commitments to take action. 

Forethought: The ability to plan for the future, set goals, and consider the consequences of actions. 

Self-Reactiveness: The capacity to regulate one's own behaviors and responses in response to situations. 

Self-Reflectiveness: The ability to evaluate one's thoughts, feelings, and actions, and learn from them. 

Approach

  • A Open Mind is the capacity to suspend old habits of judgement, to see everything with fresh eyes and new perspectives.

  • A Open Heart Is the Capacity to empathize and to look at a situation through the eyes of someone else.

  • A Open Will is the capacity to let go of the old habit / behavior patterns and be able to create new reality with the power of intention, emotions and thoughts.

FAQs

What is Coaching?

Coaching is the convergence of development of psychology, human learning and development and modern neuroscience.
The underlying philosophy of coaching is that we as humans have immeasurable amount of energy, ability and wisdom that is waiting to be unlocked and set motion. And we can create the life we envision faster by partnering with a coach who enables us harness those resources to facilitate change and realize our potential.
The International Coaching Federation (ICF) defines coaching as:
‘Partnering with clients in a thought-provoking and creative process that inspires them to maximize their personal and professional potential.’

What is the difference in terms of Consulting, Mentoring and Coaching?

Consultants are specialists who assess, diagnose problems and propose solutions, insights, recommendations.
Mentors have expertise in a particular area and they share their real life experience as a guide to mentees.
Coaches uses the Coaching Process to empower the client to uncover their own solutions.
The key difference is about Power Dynamics. There is certain power or status difference in consulting and mentoring, in which consultants and mentors own the source of wisdom; Yet in coaching, the absence of power difference and equality is the cornerstone.
The true power of coaching emerge in the power indifference, which fuels the true creativity and inner drive and motivation to implement the change.

What is the difference between Coaching and Therapy?

Therapy often focuses on the impact of past to present. Coaching focuses on the present and future. As a coach, we build on client’s strength, values and conscious goals, and unconscious dream and hidden talents, to work with them to co-create and manifest their purpose.

Why is Coaching important NOW?

  • As the age of human - machine coexistence approaches faster and faster, it calls for significant change and shift in our current mindset;
    Yet we all have our Modern-Day Paradox: Knows what needs to change, yet find it very hard to change behavior and habits, which required for new version of self; Plus, our never Ending quest of existential meaning and life purpose.

  • Coaching is an exquisite art of listening, it cultivates people’s capacity to listen without assumptions. This is the absolute necessity for any entrepreneurship journey from designing product with empathy, finding product-market fit, articulating value prop, crafting positioning and messaging, to founder-led sales and building enduring trust with investors, team members, customers and community.

  • When the most AI advancement invokes this new wave of cognitive revolution, and reaps the low hanging fruits in human conscious mind, coaching is a vehicle to tap into human’s unconscious mind. This process aims to uncover human’s deeply buried human emotions and limited beliefs which impedes our personal awareness expansion.

Do I need Coaching?

Coaching is a privileged benefit Corporate offers to their senior leaders to further develop and expand them. Now in this new age of AI, everyone is pretty much demanded to be their own boss. How do you manage yourself in the age of dramatic change and even revolution?
Coaching is ideal for someone who is ready for the “next step”, which needs clarity, confidence to move forward.

Why it Matters to Find a Certified or Credentialed Coach?

The leading secular credentialing authority in the coaching profession is the International Coach Federation (ICF). They have set standards for training in what is referred to as core competencies and ethics. I went through a training program that required many hours of training, practice, and mentoring. My coaching calls were reviewed and I was mentored on how to improve. Once I completed that process and received my certification, I had to take a three-hour test and have over 100 hours of coaching clients before I could be credentialed as an ICF coach. This is a major time and financial investment as well.

Where do I find more about Turing Trap?

https://digitaleconomy.stanford.edu/news/the-turing-trap-the-promise-peril-of-human-like-artificial-intelligence/