'INTENTION' is the KEY

As soon as I started my coaching certification journey, my mentor asked me to enroll for the Theory.U courses that MITx was offering online. I took up the advice seriously and today I feel that it was an extremely valuable suggestion made by my mentor. The takeaways from these courses are priceless.

The courses exposed me to lots of theories, concepts, tools and frameworks. I learnt to access what is difficult and lying in unknown spaces with the basic framework of Co-Initiating, Co-sensing, Presencing, Co-creating and Co-evolving.

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The framework accompanied with various tools and exercises like empathy walks, sensing journeys, stakeholder interviews, learning journeys, 3D models of finding effective solutions from the emerging future using design thinking methods in the tradition of Tim Brown and Dave Kelly, 4D models of Social Theatre Presencing to allow holistic solutions to come forth on their own even in the most hopeless of situations and environments, were some of what I took away from the courses. 

But what impacted me most was the clarity I got about one underlying concept and that was – “The success of an intervention depends on the interior condition of the intervenor.”

The more I contemplated and researched on this specific idea, I started opening up to the fact that our thoughts, emotions, conversations, actions, movements, are all but symptoms. Below these are more defining invisible structures, like values, belief systems, moral codes and ethical alignments of individuals and the collective. Even deeper is the soil in which these structures are rooted, and that soil is the quality of our attention and the power of our intention. 

The power of “intention” I found is the key. In our work as executive coaches and mentors helping clients develop deeper and stronger intentions is the opposite of corporate indoctrination. Helping clients become more aware of their own sources of curiosity, compassion and courage, hugely shifts the inner field of the client. Similarly, as a coach and mentor it became clear to me that I needed to hugely transform my own inner soil by inculcating a deeper and a stronger “intention” for my clients. Developing a mindset that deeply ingrained the ability to be curious (open-mind), compassionate (open-heart) and courageous (open-will) with my clients became most essential. 

I am now able to apply this framework in all my sessions during coaching and systemic coaching processes. I always check-in with myself about my own interior condition just before taking on any of my sessions. I get clear about the quality and the power of my intention before engaging with my client and set right my context and my intention to optimize my being able to serve the client for their highest good.

I successfully applied this mindset recently with a group of 17 executives with an organization both for their personal sessions and their team-building workshop. 

Note : A couple of executives from the above mentioned group (Nishant Dhiman | Rhishikesh Kulkarni) made some comments about the process that can be seen in the recommendations section of my Linkedin account https://www.dhirubhai.net/in/dreyvandayse/