I spent my weekend learning about 'how to become a coach' and found it really challenging.
It was from several activities we were asked to try that made me learn more about myself, my approaches, and my habits ka.
Two were activities I tried before. Yet, even I knew it, it was tough to be very focused on my own task assigned.
The first one was that we were asked to form a circle and once my name is called, I couldn't step out to replace the caller's place until I called out someone's name. It sounded simple but boy oh boy! it needed a lot of focused self to remind me of my own assigned role then only.
The second was to look into our pair and guess if the person was thinking about a sad or happy story, without saying a word. This was quite ok for me as I didn't look at the body language only but would also feel along!
The third was toughest to act as a coach, trying to ask questions to come up with a goal of our coachee, her real situation, options, and what to do next. I tended to have some answers in my mind when I was stopped from doing so because it would be for the coachee to think for herself and choose the best to act and launch the actions herself.
After the two days, I reflected my learning. I learned that empathy could be my strength. It was also obvious that I've assumed a role as a mentor for so long that I get stuck with the approaches I've been using.....so used to managing people when I may have not been so thorough what I could have done about my own issues on my plate.
It taught me about 'context' and 'autonomy' that led me to think of 'EdPEx'. In fact, these two words weren't stressed much at all in the training.
I think coaching techniques to pose right questions for individuals to think for themselves could be very helpful for EdPEx since universities need to think and act further on their own with some guiding questions for them to be more aware of some aspects and some issues they think could be their challenges. In any case, for coaching and EdPEx, we must let them think, express, and decide on their own. This is definitely true for coaching. What about EdPEx ka?
It could be too soon to conclude that becoming a coach isn't for me. Deep down inside, I'm telling myself so lae ka. Should I try learning further? I'll keep exploring it ka.
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