COACHING INSPIRATION

Because the structure of inspiration is not something everybody intuitively knows, I began spending time a couple years ago at each ACMC with the Assist Team to prepare them for their two-minutes of a Moment of Inspiration which we do at the Graduation. If you’d like to experience that, come and join the team! But the question before us right now is, “How do I coach inspiration when I’m not giving a speech, but facilitating a conversation with my client?”

Part of the answer, using last week’s Morpheus’ post, is to use the mechanisms of inspiration. Use vision, story, challenge, creative tension, memorable language, and surprises. These naturally come up in the coaching conversation anyway, do they not? Do you not ask about what the person wants? And once you get the first level objective, do you not ask for the meta-wants and do so until the person articulates his vision for the kind of life he wants to live? As the person goes there, you can then use acknowledgments, validations, empathy statements to amplify that visionary sense of life. Do that in the coaching conversation and you will facilitate inspiration.