Final Coaching Call (as coachee)

Presencing remains the mystical floating island of Dialogue. In Sensing, we throw our grapple hooks up into the sky together, hoping to hook into field four and feel our feet leave the ground, or something like that. My coach and I discussed the differences between Sensing and Presencing and how the latter is so much more difficult to achieve, especially in a corporate environment. There is a corporate application to Dialogue that I was very reluctant to engage with throughout the course. I’m glad that my coach embraced that face of Dialogue so that it could perturb my more spiritual colloquy with the material.

Meditation and mindfulness came up. I shared with my coach that I have been inspired to deconstruct the general term “mindfulness” to account for the differences between various kinds of meditative experiences. Some seem inward while others make the term “inward” or “self” incoherent. The inquiry eventually led us back to the transition between fields three and four. Brought into the conversation was someone I would consider a Dialogue artist, Charles Eisenstein. He has a philosophical and social relationship with Presencing through his Story of Interbeing. It seems that integrating the aspects of sensing and presencing into the range of our understanding, from philosophical to practical, is a practice that makes fields three and four more likely to fill one’s perception across their experience.  

We were both thrilled to have been lucky enough to be in this class.

Final Coaching Call (as coach)

Our last coaching call, my coachee and I agreed that we have found this course transformative. Alone, and understanding of what true Dialogue is can change the way one interacts with others. But that understanding coupled with the tools of the four fields and a new practice of meditation…the real-life benefits of are already so circumambient to our lives, ethereally coalescing, to articulate at the moment. Neither one of us expected the course to be so important.

We talked a lot about our final papers, mine more practical and my coachee’s more theoretical, and the connections between them. Time and the perception of time were explored. The coaching call where we reached generative dialogue was a fun memory. My coachee and I both saw Dialogue as something to incorporate into our personal lives as soon as we started to “understand” it, and we talked about that as well. Empathic listening, we discussed, is incredibly powerful with social and personal applications as powerful and far reaching as those of fully realized Dialogue itself. Empathic listening could possibly be its own CCT course.

Overall, we could not overstate how fun and healthy for our minds this class has been. We were both very glad to have taken it and been assigned together as a coaching team. We’ll be keeping in touch.