The Sound of Someone Changing

I’m fairly addicted to CBC radio one’s Sunday afternoon Tapestry program. I’m also addicted to the Toronto Public Library. These two addictions feed each other: Mary Hynes (who is pretty co-active and coach-like herself, in my opinion) interviews someone on Tapestry, the someone references his/her book, and I request the book from the library, and a few weeks later I have it in my hands.

Which is how, this week, I ended up with Everyday Holiness.

The book opens with a paragraph that means a lot to me:

Every one of us is assigned to master something in our lives. You have already been given your assignment and you have already encountered it, though you may not be aware that what faces you is a curriculum, nor that this is the central task of your life. My purpose in this book is to help you wake up to your personal curriculum and to guide your steps toward mastering it.

It’s probably unnecessary for me to point out that I think coaching does this, but I’ll say so anyway. Both for the client AND the coach, co-active coaching keeps waking you up to what your personal curriculum is.

As someone coaching under the banner Ready for Change, my favourite quote in the book so far is:

‘The greatest sound in the cosmos,’ notes Rabbi Salanter, ‘is that of someone changing himself and growing from it.’ (p.37)

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