CHAPTER 1
The Being of Coaching: Mindful Service
Service is the rent we pay to be living. It is the very purpose of life and not something you do in your spare time.
 
Marian Wright Edelman
 
If one is estranged from oneself, then one is estranged from others too. If one is out of touch with oneself, then one cannot touch others.
 
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
 
 
SERVICE IS IMPLICIT IN OUR DEFINITION OF COACHING: whether you do it as a professional coach with an executive client, a manager with an employee, a teacher with a student, or a health care worker with a patient, coaching means placing yourself in service to another. In turn, placing oneself in service requires a broad quality called mindfulness.
This chapter begins with an exploration ...

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