Sunday, 27 March 2022

#CallingOurselvesCoaches - #IamACoach, #BeingACoach, #DoingCoaching

Underpinning this 7 day or 7 step process is one core idea - that training, and then 'practice' (transfer to practice), of coaching skills, as coaches, being coaches - 'doing' coaching - occurs not only during 'formal' one to one, and group coaching; but ideally - A) is integrated into our way of 'being', 'seeing' and 'living'; and B) we continue to develop personally and professionally - literally each and every day - each day brings us to progressively higher levels of understanding, insight into practice, and deepening our skills. We do this by an individual and collective commitment to 1) call ourselves coaches - I 'am' a coach; 2) being a coach; 3) do coaching; 4) reflect and record; 5) share and build collective experience, locally, then in wider circles and networks of practice and interest, communities of practice and interest CoP and CoI; 6) cumulatively capture, record and build both individual and personal coaching logs and portfolios (quantitative and qualitative), and 7) our collective portfolio of work and metrics of value-added and impact - progressively making this visible and sharing this. Essentially this is similar to what we do in clinical practice. See. Do. Teach. Share. Engage in Training, and Train others. Engage in Scholarship. Locally and then Internationally. Progressively and deepening our skills and expertise. Adding value and having impact. Poh-Sun Goh, 25 March 2022, 0309am, Singapore Time

#FindingYourVoice #AddingValue

"As you progress in your personal and professional training and development - focus on 'deep' work, fundamental insights, foundational ideas - like - 'learning science' (how best to learn and teach) - e.g. applied to life-long learning (both for yourself, and others); network theory, and practice - e.g. applied to developing your own personal and professional networks, to augment your value(add) and impact (and as part of this, to 'market-test' and refine your unique, personal contribution and 'voice', what you bring to the conversation, to the collective work, and to the table; technology (not chasing what is 'hot' necessarily, but always focused on 'what' the technology can do, the 'jobs to be done', and focus on sustainable, widely accessible, low-cost or no-cost and free to use, off the shelf tech tools and platforms - again to scale and magnify impact - the impact of crowds augmented by accessible and available tech - for all); 'coaching' - know yourself, know others ... a thousand battles, a thousand victories [ inspired and modified from - “If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles. If you know yourself but not the enemy, for every victory gained you will also suffer a defeat. If you know neither the enemy nor yourself, you will succumb in every battle.” ― Sun Tzu, The Art of War]; understand the power of 'media', both broadcast and now social media (magnifying your professional and personal impact) . Poh-Sun Goh, 27 March 2022, 0906am, Singapore Time - https://linktr.ee/PohSunGoh and https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1531-2053 (including summary of professional biography and publication list).

Monday, 21 March 2022

#Blending-#Grit+#Strategy #LifeJourney

"People Tend To Overestimate What Can Be Done In One Year And To Underestimate What Can Be Done In Five Or Ten Years." - Bill Gates? Arthur C. Clarke? J. C. R. Licklider? Roy Amara? Alfred Mayo? George H. Heilmeier? Manfred Kochen? Raymond Kurzweil? Anonymous? - https://quoteinvestigator.com/2019/01/03/estimate/


"One simple way to look at 'a life journey' - 1) choose a destination, wisely, with deep insight into 'why', meaning, purpose; and then 2) keep taking small steps toward this destination. Every day. and 3) celebrate each step along the way, and embrace each moment." Poh-Sun Goh, 22 March 2022, 0756am, Singapore Time


https://davidrobson.me/the-strategic-mindset-the-batman-effect-and-more/ 


https://www.bbc.com/worklife/article/20200722-the-mindset-you-need-to-succeed-at-every-goal


https://davidrobson.me/thinking-like-a-norwegian-and-the-power-of-mindsets/


https://davidrobson.me/blog/


https://davidrobson.me/the-expectation-effect/


Change Your Closet, Change Your Life | Gillian Dunn | TEDxWhiteRock (YouTube)


https://ideas.ted.com/is-there-an-item-that-youve-been-saving-for-a-special-day-use-it-now/


#Spiral(s) #SpiralModel

“We shall not cease from exploration

And the end of all our exploring

Will be to arrive where we started

And know the place for the first time.

Through the unknown, remembered gate

When the last of earth left to discover

Is that which was the beginning;

At the source of the longest river

The voice of the hidden waterfall

And the children in the apple-tree

Not known, because not looked for

But heard, half-heard, in the stillness

Between two waves of the sea.

—T.S. Eliot, from “Little Gidding,” Four Quartets (Gardners Books; Main edition, April 30, 2001) Originally published 1943.”


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Above Wikipedia and Wikimedia Commons image is from the user Chris 73 and is freely available at //commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:NautilusCutawayLogarithmicSpiral.jpg under the creative commons cc-by-sa 3.0 license.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chambered_nautilus#/media/File:NautilusCutawayLogarithmicSpiral.jpg

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The Chambered Nautilus

BY OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES SR.

This is the ship of pearl, which, poets feign,

Sails the unshadowed main,—

The venturous bark that flings

On the sweet summer wind its purpled wings

In gulfs enchanted, where the Siren sings,

And coral reefs lie bare,

Where the cold sea-maids rise to sun their streaming hair.


Its webs of living gauze no more unfurl;

Wrecked is the ship of pearl!

And every chambered cell,

Where its dim dreaming life was wont to dwell,

As the frail tenant shaped his growing shell,

Before thee lies revealed,—

Its irised ceiling rent, its sunless crypt unsealed!


Year after year beheld the silent toil

That spread his lustrous coil;

Still, as the spiral grew,

He left the past year’s dwelling for the new,

Stole with soft step its shining archway through,

Built up its idle door,

Stretched in his last-found home, and knew the old no more.


Thanks for the heavenly message brought by thee,

Child of the wandering sea,

Cast from her lap, forlorn!

From thy dead lips a clearer note is born

Than ever Triton blew from wreathèd horn!

While on mine ear it rings,

Through the deep caves of thought I hear a voice that sings:—


Build thee more stately mansions, O my soul,

As the swift seasons roll!

Leave thy low-vaulted past!

Let each new temple, nobler than the last,

Shut thee from heaven with a dome more vast,

Till thou at length art free,

Leaving thine outgrown shell by life’s unresting sea!

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/44379/the-chambered-nautilus


https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20220318-the-ancient-enigma-that-still-resonates-today


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spiral


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spiral_model


https://medium.com/@chandu_22532/spiral-model-spiral-model-in-software-engineering-64e0ddee5269


Friday, 11 March 2022

#5 #Elements #Earth #Water #Wind #Fire #Void #BookOfFiveRings #5Rings #FivePillars

#5 

#Elements #Earth #Water #Wind #Fire #Void

#BookOfFiveRings #5Rings #FivePillars 

by Poh-Sun Goh, 12 March 2022, 0822am, Singapore Time


5

Elements


Earth - beneath our feet, foundation, anchor, center

Water - 'feel' water, sensation, physical movement

Wind - 'hear' wind, sound, compare and contrast with Water movement and flow

Fire - 'see' Fire, Light, energy

Void - formless, what is not seen, heard or physically felt, envelops and encompasses Earth, Water, Wind and Fire


Application in Ontological Reflection, and Coaching


Book of Five Rings


Visualise 5 intersecting rings - location, size, interaction


Visualise 5 pillars - varying locations e.g. four corners and centre core pillar; two central cores - Earth and the Void, and three peripheral (action, active) ones - Water, Wind and Fire



Monday, 7 March 2022

#VoiceCoaching #PsychologyOfTheVoice #FindingYourVoice

https://captivatetheroom.podbean.com/e/7-layers-to-your-heart/


https://theartofspeakingup.com/38-the-psychology-of-the-voice-how-to-express-authentic-power-through-the-sound-of-your-voice-with-tracy-goodwin/


How to Speak with Authority, Sound Confident with Your Voice, Improve Your Voice, Public Speaking (YouTube)


0:51 / 11:02 How Tone of Voice Can be Affecting Your Work and Personal Relationships (YouTube)


0:26 / 8:10 Connecting emotionally with your audience


https://www.youtube.com/c/TracyGoodwin


https://captivatetheroom.com


https://rodneyflowers.com/the-psychology-of-the-voice-how-you-can-use-your-voice-to-change-your-mindset-with-tracy-goodwin/


https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/a-change-to-the-sound-of-the-voice-can-change-your-very-self-identity/


https://www.theguardian.com/science/2018/jul/12/the-real-reason-the-sound-of-your-own-voice-makes-you-cringe


https://www.psychologytoday.com/sg/blog/communication-success/201607/what-your-voice-reveals-about-you


Johar, Swati. (2016). Psychology of Voice. 10.1007/978-3-319-28047-9_2. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/314580952_Psychology_of_Voice


Johar S. (2016) Psychology of Voice. In: Emotion, Affect and Personality in Speech. SpringerBriefs in Electrical and Computer Engineering. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-28047-9_2


https://pohsungoh.blogspot.com/2022/03/vocalenergy.html

Friday, 4 March 2022

#Time, #Attention, #Energy - #Life, #Value, #Purpose, #Meaning

Time, Attention and Energy - one Life, its Value, Purpose and Meaning

by Poh-Sun Goh, 5 March 2022, 0618am first draft and refined 0758am, Singapore Time, updated 6 March 2022, 0850am, Singapore Time, and 7 March 2022, 0515am, Singapore Time


Our Life(Lives) can be defined by how we spend our Time, what we pay Attention to, expend and allocate Energy on. Inner and Outer. Self and Relationships. Strong and Weak (Network) Ties and Connections.


The rhythms of Time. Night and Day. Seasons. Cycles. Near and Far. 


The focus of our Attention. What catches our attention. What matters. Understanding Why. First, Second and Third order thinking. Wide and Near perspective.


Energy expenditure. How much, or not at all. More or Less. Movement or Stillness. Fast or Slow. Rest and Renewal. Growth and Development. Outcomes. 


Informed and inspired by 'The Book of 5 Rings', 'Ichi-go Ichi-e', 'Ikigai', 'Ying/Yang', Maslow's pyramid, 80/20, Growth and Mastery 'S' curves, Anthropology and History, Psychology and Sociology, Design Thinking and Spirituality. Hard and Soft. Fast and Slow. Earth, Water, Wind, Fire and the Void. This Moment. Joy and Enjoyment. Adaptability and Resilience. Motivation, Growth and Performance Science. Mindfulness and Personal Insight. Mission and Purpose. Value, Impact and Meaning. Professional Identity and Roles. Expertise and Mastery. Credibility and Credentials. Skills and Expertise. Interests and Industries. e.g. Healthcare, Education, Teaching, Training, Faculty Development, Consultant, Guide, Mentor, Coach