Every year we make those New Year Resolutions, and you might be wondering why I am mentioning them – after all, most people gave up on them weeks ago.
We are creatures of habit, and we evolved in a dangerous world to be in survival mode. That often meant that we had to learn habits and methods, and keep things the same wherever we could. Five thousand years of civilisation has not made much of a dent in a million years of survival thinking, and we carry on keeping everything the same, and our resolutions to change usually come to nothing.
Last Saturday CSP Coaching - my partner Steve and I - held a Coaching Taster Day, and we hosted a group of ten people who were interested in Life Coaching and in our new Diploma. That’s where making a difference comes in. We spent time on the methods and approaches of coaching, and how theories of learning have influenced coaching, but the main thrust was to answer the hard question: How do you create lasting change? This is our biggest challenge, and unless we can make change last then it’s of little value.
I think that we cannot change unless we can have real belief in the possibility of change. I like to imagine how it was for those people who were first faced with the idea that the world was round, not flat. How hard it must have been to understand and believe in that! How terrifying it must have been to head off on a small ship, wondering if you’d got it wrong, and you’d sail off the edge of the world! In these days of air travel and photographs from space it’s fairly easy to see, but in the 15th century this idea was a real challenge.
I hope that I was able to help the group to believe that lasting change is possible, and 
for it to happen we have to change our beliefs and transform the way we think and feel. I know that some of them were sufficiently convinced that they have committed to our course, and I think that they all had a good time and learnt something in the process. I hope overall, that the day made a difference to their lives and to how they see the world. If you’d like to find out about or attend the next Taster Day, email alan@cspcoaching.com, or call me on 01752 664429, or click here.
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