Change is essential in life. Growth is change, so is decline. There's no avoiding change.
We all want change, but we want others to do the changing or at least change first! It reminds me of Sallah from Raiders of the Lost Ark: "Asps, very dangerous - you go first." Without knowing it, we can expend a great deal of energy avoiding change.
Goals and problems can be approached from many different directions. Some approaches seek to change things "out there" and some to seek to change things "in here," that is, inside the client.
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Hi Kevin, powerful article on how change happens and how we can coach for lasting shifts. This would be a powerful lesson to make a part of the course itself or as a part of a more advanced follow-on course. Dan
Wow, so true. This article has helped me revisit how I approach the issues....once again, to focus on inner transformation rather than outward fixes. Not that outward fixes can't help sometimes, but they are fairly useless unless we get to the real source of the issue. Thanks for the thoughts.
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