Fall is here
I just got my marks for my Research Paper! and in spite of comments that I heard, it was very thoughtfully commented and marked. Thank you Dr. Vaughan!
I am on my last leg of preparing everything for my assessment and in order to try to graduate in December. I have the feeling that I am rushing a bit through some of the classes, and dedicating less time to the modules that I would like.
I have also done my first draft on my Power Tool, but I am working a bit without knowing what is expected from me in the way of length, structure, etc. I think that the most challenging thing left for me is the Coaching Model, with which I am stuck for quite a while.
In a previous post I mentioned “the listening place” which is become so important in my ICA coaching. From there, an intuition seems to build as to what should be done, asked, suggested. And I choose to believe that it is the client who is telling me this, throught the undercurrent of communication that exists between people.
Well, with regards to coming up with new ideas, there is a similar place. I would not call it a “listening” place, except that it would be listening for my own intution, my own storehouse of creativity. It’s just allowing it to come up, without forcing it, by just being open to hearing that voice. This is how the idea for the Research Paper came to me, and how the idea of the Power Tool surfaced. I am waiting for the Model, and I hope it comes in time!
I was listening again to the criteria for self-assessment of journalling, and I did not remember that there was an aspect of linking to other blogs, etc. that was so important. I have not done any of that, and will have a poor mark, but I take it as a learning step. I am beginning to be much fonder of blogging than I was.
All this brings me to the main thing that I am developing in ICA: finding that place from which I am in contact with a special kind of knowledge (dare I say wisdom?) that tells me what is appropropriate, that chooses what knowledge I should now use, what I should say, or what I should not say. The place of quiet, of being in the wave of being… how difficult to explain.
