Inspiring people to connect with their natural capacity for mental wellbeing, resilience, and performance.
One day we will be able to talk about having a personal development coach as openly as we talk about having a personal trainer, or an executive coach.
In sport and business, it’s natural to engage in coaching. Thinking about improving your physical fitness, picking up a new sport, or developing your leadership skills, it makes sense to engage with a personal trainer, sports coach, or an executive coach. Workplace performance improvement conversations are best practice and supported by easily accessible and available resources to help work on areas we want to develop.
But when it comes to everything else in our lives; our personal performance and mental wellbeing, we are no longer in any structured professional performance system that facilitates us to learn or improve. We’re left to our own devices, in an ever-expanding sea of confusing self-help marketing, which we occasionally dip into when we feel we’re struggling. Similar to the merry-go-round of unused gym memberships when people feel the urge to work on their physical fitness.
Unfortunately, there’s still stigma around discussing mental wellbeing, so we tend to keep the way we feel to ourselves. That is, until things get overwhelming, and then everything starts to suffer. Even worse, at this point, we then become exposed to the increasing medicalisation of healthcare, where there is a focus on throughput with the effect of short-term soothing at the expense of long-term health.
Partnering with a personal development coach will bring clarity of mind, enabling better performance, and healthy success, without all the continuous low level stomach-churning fear and stress.
Working on yourself will also work for everyone around you.
The World Health Organisation states that stress is THE health epidemic of the 21st Century, and officially recognises burnout as an occupational phenomenon. Recently there was the world’s first international standards published on workplace mental health (ISO 45003). Employers need to be taking a whole person approach to looking after the welfare of their people. There is a growing necessity to better help people achieve effective self-care and coaching for wellbeing and health should be mainstream.
