Please allow me to introduce you to the work of Brene Brown, a vulnerability researcher and professor at University of Houston Graduate College of Social Work, and leading expert on vulnerability, shame, authenticity and belonging. Brene’s work is based on thousands of interviews with men and women about their important relationships and experiences of connection. What stood out in her research findings was the importance of believing we are worthy of love and belonging, and the importance of owning and engaging our own vulnerability. She talks about the
Read more →One of my coaching colleagues has a very clever business card that says in big bold print: “I HAVE QUESTIONS, YOU HAVE ANSWERS.” But, most of us would ask, aren’t people who come for coaching the ones who are asking the questions? And aren’t coaches supposed to be the answer people? Yes and No. Yes, most people do come to coaching with questions about their lives. But coaches do not have the answers. Instead, coaches use provacative open-ended QUESTIONS that invite
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