What does it mean to be a “Deep Coach?”
One of the Deep Coaching course members intimately shared that over the course of the last 2 months, she has begun discovering the “subtleties” of her personality patterns. She mused that while we might read about Enneagram patterns and be able to identify them at a more obvious level, that there’s a much greater depth and realness experienced when we allow ourselves to come into contact with the ‘sneaky’ ways that the patterns creep into the cells of everyday life. They do so often, but especially when ‘no one is watching.’
But she noticed the patterns when they were trying to sneak past her awareness! She was so aware that she could see the workings of certain patterns and she could experience them WHILE they were happening. This gave her the capacity to not let them become too ‘real. She let them be patterns rather than “just who she is,” which helped her release some aspect of her old story about herself. We should note that in this process of being aware, but not getting too involved with a pattern, the very nature of Awareness begins reducing the power of the patterns themselves. This is an extraordinary movement toward awakening.
For her, the recognition of the subtleties of the patterns and the shift in her relationship to the patterns (and thus, to herself) led her to say “Oh, I think this is what Deep Coaching is about.: I think she would have added, “at least at this stage in my understanding”
All of us involved in the Deep Coaching movement using the Enneagram are committed to awakening–to our own journey of real awakening; and to be of service to others who would like support on their journeys. This, afterall, is not a ‘solo’ trip. We need each other to help us see what we can’t see in ourselves and to remind each other of the magnificence of our Essential Nature. In this community of seekers, our shared impetus can more easily move through the inertia that would otherwise sidetrack us when we are on our own(as it has many times).
While I wrote the book, Deep Coaching,: Using the Enneagram as a Catalyst for Profound Change, none of us (including me) can yet realize the full meaning, direction or impact of what it means to be a Deep Coach. I believe that the ‘deep coaching process” will continue unfolding and teaching us with each moment of conscious awareness and presence for which we show up.
If you’d like to join us for this amazing adventure of awakening from a grounded, practical, yet far-reaching perspective, and deepen your learning about the Enneagram has to teach, we’d love to have you. A good place to start is with the next Deep Coaching Teleconference Series starting in September. Check it out at www.lifewisecoaching.com/certification-program/
Blessings, Roxanne
