The 5 Senses of Self
A Coaching Framework for Personal and Team Development
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The Questions which Define Your Journey
Life will influence you, life will inform you, but life does not need to form you or to frame you. Your experiences may delight you, or they may cause you to despair, but they do not need to define you. It is within your gift and responsibility to define your own life by the questions you ask and by the decisions you make in response to the experiences life gives to you.
The answers you look for in life are only as good as the questions you ask. You need courage to ask great questions if your life is to be a great quest. If you are content with your current condition you won’t ask questions which compel you to change.
In the realm of the soul, your appetite determines the size of your plate and the food it contains. ‘Please, sir, can I have some more?’ is not the question of a pauper; it is the question of a king in the making. They are the words of a man or woman asking more of life and eventually getting it.
Cinderella’s Issues
Behind every problem which resists us there is a question of identity, meaning and fulfilment. This is illustrated graphically in the fairy tale of Cinderella, which can be seen as a metaphor of self definition and aspiration in a struggle with external difficulties and inner conflict pictured in the form of Cinderella’s step mother and her two step sisters (self doubt and despair).
Cinderella knew that she was made for more, but her step mother and sisters each resisted her aspiration for a better life. They tried to beat her down and limit her expectation, but Cinderella allowed her dream to live in the form of the fairy Godmother who said, “You shall go to the ball!” But a dream can only live for a brief spell of time before it fades into half forgotten memories or is transformed into the substance of life. Soon the carriage turned into a pumpkin and the conflicts of life again asserted their dominance over Cinderella’s dream of a better future. There needed to be a strong voice of declaration and affirmation if Cinderella’s dream was to become a reality. This came to Cinderella in the form of the Prince, who said, “You are the person you dream of becoming- the shoe of royalty is yours!”
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“This text provides a very useful addition to the teaching armoury for those involved in leadership and management training and it is also an excellent work for its application and relevance as a tool for self development. As someone involved in teaching managers, I see this as a breath of fresh air that I would commend to all of them most strongly.”
Professor Peter L. Bradshaw: Professor in Health Care Policy (University of Huddersfield) and External Examiner for the NHS National Management Training Scheme.
“This book challenges and inspires us to make a profound journey of self-discovery and clarifies our understanding of the human condition and gives us the tools to facilitate problem-solving and personal development...The author is eager for his readers to find their true potential fully satisfied, and he provides an impressively detailed and comprehensive analysis of how this can be done. His enthusiasm for his subject is infectious.”
Mr Michael Flowers MBE. FRCS. Retired Consultant in Accident and Emergency Medicine Leeds.
“This book offers inspiration to find personal transformation though the application of right thinking. Through helpful diagrams and many examples, the author shows how we do not need to remain fixed in our present state and articulates means by which these wished-for keys can become reality.”
Mr John Sloan, BM. BS. FRCS. FCEM. Consultant in Emergency Medicine Countess of Chester Hospital.
“This book is a clear and engaging self help and training manual... Psychotherapists who want to extend their clinical toolbox, particularly within the positive psychology framework, will find this a useful addition.”
Barbara Clarkson BSc, MA, PTSTA, Psychotherapist, Trainer and Supervisor.
About the Author
Richard is a highly trained people developer who works as a qualified Personal Performance Coach, Trainer and NLP Practitioner. He is also a qualified secondary school teacher and ordained Church minister and has worked in the field of empowering people for over 20 years. He is passionate about people being empowered towards personal transformation and seeing teams and individuals working to their full potential and becoming engaged in their own life purpose. He currently co-directs ‘The Coaching Dynamic’ with his wife Catherine. (www.thecoachingdynamic.com).
This theme of empowerment has led him to work in positions of team leadership and people management in start up projects in both churches and in the charitable sector including work among the homeless and inner city youth. In these capacities, Richard has experience of working with people from all walks of life from directors to office workers, surgeons to full time parents, lecturers to self-employed business owners to the unemployed.
The insights he has gathered about how to motivate and empower people form the foundation of this book. For more information, please visit www.thecoachingdynamic.com