Chapter nine

Seeds of learning

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Look back with me over the journey of writing this book, and indeed a career of coaching, and take with you a few seeds of learning that have fostered my growth and practice.

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• Essential learning •

Permit fallibility

Maybe the greatest gift we discover together with the masterful coach is an acceptance of our fallibility.

When we are fallible, we free our clients to explore their own fallibility

We free our humanity to find expression through our work. When we are free to be imperfect we can more fully relax into being our most natural self. Strangely, in acknowledging our limitations, we can often glimpse that which is unlimited. As we accept our limitations, paradoxically our confidence to coach increases, ...

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