Whilst in Prague recently I was talking to the managing partner for one
of the european regions at one of my main clients. She was interested
in being coached by me and I had agreed to send her a document that we
had been discussing on the five drivers from Transactional Analysis (Be
Strong, Be Perfect, Try Hard, Hurry Up and Please). Yesterday evening I
sent this through to her. At the same time, I sent a document on how
to consult the I-Ching to another client whom I had been working with
the day before. In general, whilst I use astrology and the I-Ching
regularly with my clients I am very careful about how open I am in terms
of my approach. I recognise that such things as Astrology and I-Ching
are taboo in society and in business. Whilst I receive little
opposition to them, indeed most people are very receptive, I am careful
to wait and see if the conditions are right to be open in using them
with my coachees. Some I use them openly with, others are completely
unaware that I use them. I also like to give the I-Ching space to
decide who it wants to work with. It was with something of a slight gut
wrenching shock that I received an email from this managing partner to
say that she had opened up the document that I sent but it seemed to be
the wrong one. I was bemused, I could not remember attaching anything
in my email late last night, so I assumed it must have been that my logo
had come across as an attachment. When I checked, I realised that on
automatic pilot and without the awareness of my conscious mind, I had
sent her the guide to using the I Ching as well as sending it to my
other client. I hurriedly sent her the right attachment and hoped that
the guide to the I-Ching had made little sense and she had not thought
much of it. I was therefore intrigued to find a second email from her
telling me that she had consulted the I-Ching when a teenager about her
decision to apply to University and that her sister had been involved
with eastern religions for some forty years and it had had a very
formative impact on her teenage years. I realised that everything was
being arranged beautifully with the complete lack of awareness of my
conscious mind. Indeed, it was interesting that I had been particularly
careful not to disclose my use of the I-Ching with coaching clients in
this managing partner's region so that my cover would not be blown.
This experience was particularly apposite for me, as my work seemed to
have been hitting a point where a number of things were falling away.
Instead of becoming fearful and panicking, I had been practicing waiting
to see where Life was going to direct me next and holding back from
fear and the temptation to push. As usual, it came from a place I was
not expecting and where I had been avoiding disclosing my approach.
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