Coaching
the Global Village©™:
A THOUGHT paper on powerful possibilities
August 1, 2005
Proposal:
To utilize the power
of the coach approach as exemplified
today with the evolution of the
profession of Personal and Business
Life Coaching (aka leadership
coaching, personal coaching, wellness
coaching) for personal and professional
growth, I am proposing that a Coaching
the Global Village project be developed
to create positive social change
for the underserved, undervalued,
underfed, undereducated, and under appreciated
in many of the villages and towns
of the world, especially in places
like Africa, South America and
Mexico, Costa Rica, Belize, Haiti
or others.
My larger
vision:
A coaching initiative I am
calling "Coaching
the Global Village,"
in partnership with Rotary International,
Peace Corps, or some already
established global organization;
where we can use the coach
approach to combat hunger, poverty,
and education in the poorer regions
of the world. (Coaching is a
special dialogic process that
is different from consulting
or training, It is meant to empower
those being coached to co-create
new ways, unsought before, to
make desired changes). Ideas
such as micro banking and sustainable
products have been very useful
in many villages of the third
world culture, and I believe
that the “coach
approach” can
be added to existing programs to
empower the natives and teach a
method that will live on after
the coach trainers are gone.
Rotary, of which I was a member
for 15 years, is already in almost
all countries. . .so I hope
to propose a joint effort with
them, and then attract coaches
who will volunteer their skills
in third world countries. Just
as the medical profession has DOCTORS
WITHOUT BORDERS, we surely
have many highly skilled coaches
who would volunteer their skills
to provide coaching to village
leaders (both formal and informal
leaders) along with men and
women who want to improve their
lives economically, socially, spiritually;
and live more purposefully and
in a way of thriving rather than
merely surviving.
Many services
are needed in these poor villages,
and coaching as a conversation
of empowerment will evoke their
own wisdom and guidance to make
a collaborative and creative effort
to change their living situations.
If more food is needed, what are
the pathways? If better education
is needed, what can be done creatively?
What is some other village of the
world doing that might work here?
All of this can be accomplished
in conjunction with existing governmental
and international non-governmental
organization programs, and it can
be magnified in ways outside of
governmental bureaucracy — just
as Rotary International has been
successful eradicating polio throughout
the world — or just as the
model of micro banking that has
been shown to be effective in small
villages in third world countries.
Once this concept is piloted within
an existing organization, then
it could be replicated throughout
the world by trained and qualified
coaches, who then in turn,
train the local society to utilize
the coach approach for community
enhancement in all areas.
A "Wheel
of Life" process fits
well in tribal cultures around
the world. Circles are the way
to best communication and the
wheel of life concept can be
used by individuals, families,
communities, and businesses.
And through these efforts, somebody
who helps get this initiative
visible on a huge global stage
would win the Nobel peace prize!!!!!
And I could be there to cheer
for them.
Patrick Williams, EdD Master
Certified Coach and Psychologist
Author, Speaker, Trainer, Coach
and Ambassador of Life Coaching
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