What is awakening coaching?

"...awareness when you taste reality outside the limiting confines of the mind. This is when you know yourself to be limitless, much bigger than, yet containing, the body. Awakening allows us to move beyond limited beliefs and assumptions about reality and our life based on past experiences and memories, and to fully experience what is actually unfolding in this moment."

Awakening coaching seeks to release and realise all the 'brilliances' that are already present in the client. The unique combination of the client's qualities, when brought together, forms that person's 'genius', or higher good.

Realising this higher good is the ultimate fulfilment of one's life here on planet Earth. It is everything that the client was always meant to be. When this is grasped, the client is on the road to being the best possible version of themselves.

An evolution of coaching

Thus, awakening coaching can be seen to be a natural extension and evolution of 'regular' coaching.

This movement and knowledge isn't confined solely to spiritual communities or religious traditions, either. Writers such as Stephen Pinker and Ken Wilber, coming from various secular and spiritual-philosophical traditions, have identified that humankind is developing and evolving, moving from one stage of development and understanding to another.

Techniques used in awakening coaching

Many of the techniques used in awakening coaching are similar to those used in other forms of coaching.

However, in addition, tools such as meditation, mindfulness, visioning and daily practices are used.

An example of these tools is one known as 'radical release' which, rather than resolving past hurts and patterns of behaviour, seeks instead to diminish the 'frequency' and thus overcome the resistance felt by the client to an external impulse or event.

It is based upon the notion that distress is caused not by the event itself, but by the ego's attempts to resist the event. Resistance is the root of much distress and many avoidance strategies.

Dissolving, rather than resolving, problems can therefore be both a faster and a more effective technique.

Beginning with the awakened self

The conscious shift made by the evolution towards awakening coaching is therefore built upon the most profound starting point – the awakened self and the client's deepest longing.

Everything begins from this place.