A “PRACTITIONER” PRACTICES HOW ABOUT YOU?

This past week I discovered something that I did not know. I discovered that there are some of our Meta-Coaches who do not practice and who look down on practicing. They go to the Chapter meetings and they want to talk, they want to explore the theories and understandings, but they walk out when the practices start. They also do coaching, but they do not let themselves be coached. And they never, but never video-tape themselves coaching and then benchmark themselves. They think that would mean that they are not experienced! Also, when they hear me or someone else talk about practicing, they think, “That is for others, not for me.” That’s because they have a semantic reaction to the word practice. They think that practice is for those who are newly learning something and they have been in the field for years.