Mindfulness Practice: Benefits For The Professional Coach
Beyond specific training in Coaching to be able to work as a professional coach with guarantees, there are tools and practices that it is advisable to form part of the repertoire of resources known to the coach because they allow greater effectiveness and efficiency in the coaching processes.
In some previous articles here we have talked, for example, about how Neurolinguistic Programming helps the coach communicate with his clients, or how good emotional management allows the coaching professional to have good self-regulation and help the coachees with theirs.
On this occasion we want to address how the practice of Mindfulness is also an ally of the coach in the exercise of his profession.
Mindfulness, or full attention, is a practice based on working on conscious and full attention in the present moment. That is, we seek to be able to observe thoughts, emotions, sensations and the environment without judging them and without trying to change them
The difficulty that this practice entails today lies in the fact that we are immersed in a society where the stimuli are continuous and the rush has taken over our daily lives, so if we are able to stop and observe, it is quite a challenge, but It entails achieving, in the short and medium term, advantages of enormous value for our lives.
Some of the advantages that the practice of Mindfulness provides are greater mental clarity, improving attention span, achieving better acceptance and reducing stress and anxiety levels.
Mindfulness, beyond meditating
Mindfulness is usually associated with the most rigorous meditation in which we talk about leaving the mind blank and this error is what leads many to not approach the practice of Mindfulness because they consider it impossible for them.
But Meditation is not Mindfulness, but one of the techniques that Mindfulness uses And it is not, by any means, achieving that state of leaving your mind blank that brings you closer to ‘Nirvana’, but there are different ways to practice it such as focusing your attention on your breathing, being aware of how you eat or even, how to take a simple walk.
The key to the practice of Mindfulness is that, little by little, we get our attention to focus better, we manage to be able to get out of autopilot and we manage not to get trapped in thoughts that often take away our energy and condition our daily lives.
Benefits of Mindfulness for the professional coach
Taking into account the advantages that we have described above, knowing and practicing Mindfulness by coaches brings them benefits such as:
1. Improve active listening
By working on attention, the coach is able to put more focus on what the client tells, being able to naturally eliminate the judgments that may spontaneously arise in their mind and focusing exclusively on the conversation and information. that contribute.
2. Improve the results of the coaching process
Greater attention translates into a greater possibility of detecting issues that with a lower concentration may go unnoticed and that can be important in the course of the coaching process.
3. Get a better connection with your customer
A client who notices that their coach is more present, more attentive, and more relaxed is more likely to feel more comfortable when working on the process.
4. Know how to manage your own stress
Working with objectives, beliefs, values, etc., can lead to stressful situations for the coach himself, which can be managed more efficiently with the practice of Mindfulness to be more relaxed during the sessions.
5. Know tools that your client can apply in their personal work
Finally, if the coach specializes in the practice of Mindfulness, he or she can use its resources with your clients so that they can also improve their current attention that will help them focus better on their objectives.
In short, the practice of Mindfulness is beneficial for all types of people in a society where there is increasingly more disconnection from the present, more demands and more haste. But, in addition, for a professional coach it is a doubly advantageous resource by helping him personally, but also in the exercise of his professional work.
Learn Mindfulness when studying Coaching
In D’Arte Human Business School aware of how the practice of Mindfulness is a resource of enormous value for professional coaches, in our Master in Professional Coaching we attend to the practice of Mindfulness in several modules so that our students put it into practice and, in addition, acquire tools that allow them to be used in their coaching processes to offer better services to their clients and obtain better results.
