Daisy

I trained as a Performance Coach (in an organisation) last year. I was extremely fortunate - my employer paid for the (1 year) course (they're getting their money's worth now!). The assignments were tough and I did most of the work on my own time. However, knowing what I know now, if I had to I would pay for it myself. I find coaching exciting and extremely rewarding. I am looking forward to a new career. I would encourage anyone interested in training to coach to go for it. Get some therapy if you feel you need it (I did), get some coaching so you understand how it works, and go for it. The training itself is great for personal development.

Just healthy, mentally and physically, for many years to come, so that I can carry on enjoying my life and pursuing my spiritual interests and relationships.

Hi Leo, thank you for giving us the opportunity to ask you about this subject. I have been practising in the field of communication therapy for several years (with children and young people) and I'm a mentor in my field, within my organisation. I recently trained and qualified as a 'Performance Coach' (1 year course with the Institute of Leadership and Management) and I LOVE coaching. It's so exciting. I am very interested in pursuing life coaching as an additional career option - I wondered if it would be necessary to 'retrain' as a life coach or if it would be acceptable / advisable to use this training, and performance coaching experience, and apply it to life coaching? Cheers

I wonder if anyone can help me understand a strange experience I had while meditating in a queue of traffic. I am new to all of this, so please forgive my naivety. I really appreciate having the opportunity to be able to ask a question like this on a forum like this. I have been meditating daily for 8 months only (at home, first thing in the morning). It's a cliche, but it has changed my life, my attitude to 'myself' and also towards others. All good so far. I also like to use Leo's "Mindfulness (see / hear / feel) Mediation" technique when I'm outdoors, sometimes sitting at a traffic light. Usually I'm noticing nature: grass, trees, sky. This one time I was sitting in a long traffic queue that wasn't going anywhere so I thought I'd take the opportunity to meditate for a few minutes and I had the strangest experience. The only way I can describe it is to say that I was above the town where I live. I don't mean I was thinking about it, imagining what it would be like to be up in the sky above the town where I live, but I WAS up in the sky above the traffic, above the whole town, like really high up. It didn't alarm me either, I was just curious about it. It was pretty cool but didn't last very long and I certainly didn't understand it. Nothing like that has ever happened to me before. ( I didn't doze off either. I was totally awake. I don't drink or do drugs and never have). It was exciting. I'm intrigued. Usually my meditation is a mixture of thinking, noticing I'm thinking, being present for a while, occasional insights and more thinking. So I wondered if anyone else has weird experiences of this nature while meditating. Cheers.