Do We Coach Our Clients to Increase Awareness of Their Personal Interface with the Environment
Coaching, as a profession is very “green.” Most coaching involves assisting clients to de-clutter their lives - everything that impacts their personal ecology, both the visible and invisible. Our coaching conversations can even expand into how our clients and their companies are reducing their waste, and identify inefficient use of resources that can definitely impact profits and progress.
As an industry, since most coaching is done by telephone, think of how many “office visits” we are saving and car miles that are reduced - thereby saving lots of electricity and gasoline while reducing pollution.
Although I recognize face-to-face contact is important in coaching and marketing your business, but even that reduces the environmental impact because much of marketing can be done electronically; and networking in most instances is done locally.
Coach training at the Institute for Life Coach Training, www.lifecoachtraining.com,
(both basic and advanced) is done over the phone, allowing people to switch from commuting to work each day to an exciting profession where they can live green each and every day!
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Comment by Christine Heinrichs on 17 May 2008:
Great point. Coaching is not only green in itself and its practices, but supports green living through awareness of one’s personal environment. This aspect deserves more attention. It’s on my list of future subjects to write about!