Coaching, writes Joseph O’Connor, "links the world of dreaming with the world of reality".
Coaching is about finding the space, the freedom to dream. Expanding your map of the world. But it’s also about taking action. It’s only by acting that you move, that things change, that you grow, and learn.
This has been bubbling away for me at a personal level ever since I jotted down my unwritten chapters or ‘gotta get goals’. If these are your dreams, the inner question goes, what is the next step to making them a reality? Some are still hazy, dreamy, and I’m happy to leave them floating for just now. Others are more specific. If I want to be able to speak and read Gaelic there’s only one way of doing it: learn the language. So as a start I’ve booked myself into Sabhal Mor Ostaig (the Gaelic college on Skye) for two weeks intensive Gaelic in the summer.
And then there’s the place. Somewhere wild, wet, overlooking the water. How will I find it if I don’t start looking? Even if it takes me a decade the only way to discover this – and other new shores – is to push the boat out, to venture out into new places, to start exploring, to see what you might find…
So I’m off tomorrow for a five day trip round the north west of Scotland: two days in Ullapool, taking in the book festival (hits a storytelling goal too!), then two days in Stein, a tiny fishing village on Skye, followed by an evening with the palm trees in balmy Plockton. Appropriately enough for my dream of a wild, wet and windy landscape it’s started to rain again after weeks and weeks of sunshine. (Apologies to other holiday makers if I’ve jinxed you…but don’t worry – the north west coast will look gorgeous, wild, stunning, amazing whatever the weather.)
Not sure if I’ll manage (or be looking for) an internet connection when I’m away, so if you don’t hear from me for a while you’ll know I’m busy pursuing my goals: watching the boats pulling out of the harbour, listening to a poet in a pub by the shore, battling with the wind on a wild cliff top walk…
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