Rollin Goering
Forum Replies Created
-
I’m smiling as I reflect on my learning experience. I’m taking so much away as a student, coach/guide and a client. This has been a miraculous module that has delivered a wonderful, and full, experience that traveled across the available emotions of the human experience. The depth of the discussions amongst, and with, the cohort reflect the commitment and heart of each individual. The rich discussions have shed light on unique angles of the ICF concepts and prompts while providing a fun, engaging opportunity to uncover potential learning possibilities. The facilitation, mentorship and the community of peers that make up cohort 19 have built a safe container on top of foundation one.
A gem or two that I’m taking away, as a student, were discovered while enjoying the time spent at the Starhouse and surrounding area. Personally, Sunshine canyon and the local wildlife have given proof to the magic of nature connection. I drove home from the Starhouse each evening during the intensive feeling restored, energized and focused. To the North of the Starhouse, my “sit spot” has been a place of honor, spirituality and great lessons. The place itself is equipped with a broken mirror to remind any visitor that it is wise to “know thy self”. The mirror taught me to remove myself (ego) and be “unseen” in the coaching experience to increase effectiveness for the client. In short time I’ve noticed a positive difference in the responses I’m getting from those I interact with. This new style of coaching, for me, has translated into a softer, gentle and highly curious approach with family and in professional relationships (not to mention my first practice clients).
As a client, I’m taking away the experience of having been contributed to at a high level by each coach I interacted with. I went into each coaching session understanding that I was entering a broken process (for now) and that I was a “practice” client. With that being said, I was amazed at the level of presence, freedom and genuine connection fostered by each coach/guide. I’ve returned home from the intensive and have completed multiple “tough” conversations with ease, have scheduled a daily practice for continual connection with nature and continue to bring humility to my learning…all inspired by the coaching I received. Wow…I’m grateful.
Finally, as a coach, I’m taking away a better understanding of my strengths and weaknesses. I’m learning that I’m comfortable and feel strong while in the process of coaching. I enjoy setting solid expectations to clients and delivering the guidelines, establishing roles and discussing ethics. Moving from an issue conversation to the threshold and from the threshold to integration and SMART goals. This process and flow seem to come naturally for me. The areas that I’m excited about and I’m realizing are not my strengths…are creating disclosure/s, intake form/s and logos etc. What I’m noticing that I’m learning from my weaknesses is that I have an opportunity to create teams and teamwork in all situations while I grow and develop my craft and coaching business.
Overall, I could not be more content with my experience in foundation one. I appreciate the balance of spiritual and scientific approaches to teaching our cohort coaching and guiding. I’ve come a long way to get to this moment and I realize that the journey has just begun. -
@Mandy – I really enjoyed your reflection and the quotes you selected from peoples writings. I got inspired newly by cohort 19’s responses.
@David – I went back and read your post. Very well written and connected. All of your quotes and references to great coaching/guiding, I feel, show up in your guiding style already!
@Gina…Thank you for responding to my question. I admire your vulnerability.
@Leslie…Thank you for your response. I appreciate your willingness to share your coaching experience (and brilliant mind) with the cohort. I appreciate you addressing the power of language. I’m happy that you are enjoying this work so far…and I enjoy watching you put together and polish a healing style of coaching that ALL people’s can understand and benefit from. Cheers!
-
Ha!
@Leslie…I liked your post and the responses it got as well. Your coaching experience shows up powerfully in your post. I appreciate your willingness to be coached and do the work before ever coaching someone else. That seems simple and I get how profound the power/vulnerability is. I took away from your post…your understanding of well being and how nature connection and nature connected coaching heals communities, countries and the world. Your references are solid in your post…I like how you tied the different readings together. What were you surprised by (if anything) by completing this assignment?
Cheers!
R
-
Gina,
Thank you for your post. I enjoyed the yin and yang you offered with your perspective (i.e. push me forward or stop me in my tracks, familiar and unknown etc). Your connection to nature is clear and evident in your coaching. I enjoy your style of invitation and creating awareness using all of your experience and knowledge to contribute to others. I loved your description of bringing intention to your coaching while disappearing yourself into the background of the experience. All around good read. Did you learn anything new about yourself by participating in this post response?
Respectfully,
R
-
I am nature. What it means to me, to be connected to nature, is a deep knowing of myself. I’m always connected to nature, by intention or by default. With intention, I can generate an experience of being connected to the environmental patterns wherever I may be on this planet. During the foundations intensive, at the Starhouse, during one of the meditations…the universe was reaching out to touch me, my skin, my clothes and my soul. At my sit spot it seemed like the wind blew through me, the birds and animals didn’t see me and my presence was nurturing to the plants (instead of being a disturbance). A mutual healing occurs for me when I acknowledge the natural world. By default, it is like nature is separate from me and a place I need to go to…to experience. How can I disconnect from something that is me? Where am I when I’m not connected to nature? When connection is present there is a responsibility I feel to be a caretaker for the wild places. There is generosity, compassion and love present. When connection is missing between “nature” and I…presence lacks and I become the storm (not the calm at the eye of the storm). When nature connection is alive…the spirit that moves in and through all things has a canvas to do the work of the greatest artist.
This relationship with nature/self contributes to and assists my coaching in many ways. First, I surrender to this relationship. Freedom and ease are expressed through my conversations when I’m connected to nature and relinquish control. My coaching plan resembles the 90/10 approach to coaching…happily. When I trust nature and the infinite possibilities available for those who choose to seek the miracles of powerful listening…the client seems to experience profound results that would not be available to them if the coaching session was about “me”. My connection to nature reminds me that I’m playing a game that is bigger than “me”. When coaching and being connected to nature…silence is powerful, flexibility in the process is available and both the coach and client benefit. From afar, one wouldn’t be able to tell who the coach is and who the client is. The coach and client become nature.
-
Woo Hoo! Glad to be added to the group…catching up on reading the posts.
Rollin
-
Thank you for a great council fire everyone! I appreciate the powerful listening and the sincere care for each other and the planet. I’ll be at the next one in April.
Rollin Cohort 19
-
Hey Team,
Good day. I’m checking in. I thought we had a video call today at 2pm. I didn’t see any call links or emails on it. Did the call move?
Rollin
-
Also…
Where can I find a calendar with all of the dates for 2019 for our cohort?
R
-
Checking back in…
I’m loving the communication. We are getting close. In a way…our course has already started.
Cheers friends!
Rollin
-
Adriana, Joshua and MJ…hello!
My name is Rollin (Raw-lin) Goering (Geh-ring). I live in the sweet heart city…Loveland, CO. What an exciting time in all of our lives. I’m looking forward to this experience and spending time with all of you.
Cheers!
R
-
Today, I know my vision is happening in the “now”…and not “some day” in the future. I feel a deep KNOWING that every day of my life, so far, has trained me for right now. Every birth and death, every experience, every failure and success has played its part in the musical known as my life. I know that my vision of “mindfully creating community” is greater than the sum of it’s parts.
How do I know this? I was told the story of “The Great Red Road”. It is a story about the road that connects the brain and the heart. I’m fulfilling my vision when I make choices “from” that place. When I listen “from” that place. When I love and take actions “from” that place. Even when I’m making choices from my mind only (thinking) or from my heart only (emotional)…which is not ideal…I’m aware of it. That awareness is a miracle and something that was never present in the past. All part of the vision.
What is calling me forward? I do not know exactly. Forward to what or where…I’m also unsure. What is actually calling me…is the past. The reoccurring nightmare of re-living every mistake, misspoken word, bad decision etc. is right there like a shark just below the surface. To complete the past and discover/develop mastery in living a created life is what I’m up to. I do FEEL the pull of a strong vision and/or path and I’m here to discover what that is…with clarity. As I type this…I got it. I’m requesting of myself…that I go on a vision quest (whatever that looks like and wherever that may happen). Thank you for this discussion! -
A sacred question…what is nature connection to me? To begin to put words to a topic that can not be explained, I separated nature and connection to explore both individually. To me, nature is all things and no thing at once. I really don’t see a separation of city, forest, rivers, mountains, ocean, sun, moon, solar system etc. It is clear for me how these separate physical forms are not separate at all. In fact, it occurs to me like divine art…when I realize for brief moments how beautiful life really is.
One of the definitions of NATURE in the dictionary is: a creative and controlling force of the universe. This is my favorite of the potential definitions for nature, because it does not limit nature to this planet. I interact with nature as a “force” greater than SELF. In this context I see connection as an “act of” or state of being…a mode of communication or transportation. When I experience connectedness…there is nothing or no thing in between. In the articles for this module…it is referred to as ONE or oneness. When this exploration of nature and connection is combined, for me…there is a deep understanding that…I am…nature. A oneness with nature just “shows up” as an experience. A communication with nature arrives as a self generated act…to “leave myself” in service of something greater.
The real challenges of maintaining connection to nature are present often. For example, I stray away from the present moment (now) and sometimes see the world through filters that I created in story form starting from a young age (i.e. Am I trusted?, I’m not good enough, I’m alone). I begin to interact with these past based conversations as if they are real. And…at times…they do occur as real to me (even though they are an illusion). Once I give merit to these illusions…I feel separate and the oneness experience…I am nature…is not present. I have accepted this battle of the mind and heart as a mountain with no top. I do have a “team” of people that I speak with each morning (the accent of the day) in pursuit of mastering a created life. The intention is to acknowledge, discover, set aside etc…the illusion and make way for the miracle and power of (now). The created act of being one with nature. For me, it is not the addition of money, knowledge or anything else but more the removal of (the illusions) that gives birth to the oneness with nature. The next challenge I would like to take on…from today…is growing my community of like minded individuals that are willing to hold me to account for what I’m committed to (being connected to nature).
-
I loved this course! I’m writing early…being that I have a routine and daily practice of sensory scans and meditation in place for some time now. In my experience, when practicing sensory scans daily, I’m more in my body and less in my head throughout the day. I’m living life from my instincts and less through force (or have to). My interactions with my family, friends and colleagues are more connected, calm and based in an envelope of love. Most importantly for me, I notice my experience when I DON’T practice the scans daily in the morning. Life occurs via default and past based conversations vs the mastery of living a created life in the present being pulled into the future toward my goals, dreams and visions.
I respect the daily practice of parts work. Through this evening’s discussion I’ve potentially discovered a new part or two. I also may have a part or two to remove from my mandala. The distinction of “We came to this planet with these parts” have me looking newly at the parts I’ve identified. The more I become familiar with my parts…the less of a daily practice it is for me. I’m mostly using my mandala before specific events, uncomfortable situations etc… The gap in my practice right now is telling one on myself. Taking this practice on this week (daily)…I can see…will have me present to which part is speaking at any given time. Being present to this will strengthen my muscle of awareness around being responsible for my own happiness and “who” is talking when I’m speaking. I’m also going to be listening powerfully to “who” is potentially talking to me when having conversations with other people I know. Fun!
I’m looking forward mostly to tuning into other people’s council this week. I’m excited about what that practice will make present for my relationships with new people. More to come…