EMOTIONS, COACHING, AND MEANING
If the emotional place you take action from impacts what you produce, then the skill of generating powerful emotional contexts that support what you want to achieve becomes a critical coaching skill. One of the things that coaches do is connect people to what matters to them—with what gives them meaning.
Interestingly, meaning itself resides in an emotional space. Meaning is inconceivable without emotion; it is not an intellectual construction, but rather an emotional response to what matters to us. We can convey huge amounts of information and knowledge, but these cannot generate the sense of meaning that arises spontaneously in us parents, for example, when our child runs up and gives us a big hug. In that ...
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