Competency No. 5
Around 4% of the 55,000 + coaches certified with the International Coaching Federation hold the revered status of Master Certified Coach. Why so few? I'm about to find out. Competency No. 5, the podcast, explores how we maintain presence when we coach, lead, and live our lives. We interview coaches and others whose very livelihood depends upon staying calm and present with those they serve. We also chronicle my attempts (as a self-retired professor and global business reporter from New Zealand) to become an MCC coach. This effort requires beaucoup coaching hours, mentoring, and adhering strictly to the ICF's seven core competencies, especially the deceptively tricky Competency No. 5, maintaining presence.
Competency No. 5
How Do Active Minds Learn to Meditate? Helio Fujita Knows
If your mind wanders too much for you to effectively meditate, then this week’s interview might delight you. My guest is Helio Fujita, an HR executive based in Switzerland. And (among other things) he’s a student at a prestigious UC Berkeley school training the bright and gifted how to teach meditation, the Mindfulness Meditation Teacher Certification program.
I loved this exchange and how kindly and patiently Helio asks about my disastrous attempts to meditate. He also offers us new ways to view the situation, to continue on with meditation, and he reminds us: even noticing things counts.
If you’d like to reach out to Helio Fujita, do so by LinkedIn. You can find me on LinkedIn too. And if you’ve stayed loyal to this podcast so far, you’ll know this episode chronicles a second interview with Helio. We spoke earlier this year on his sabbatical and Buddhist pilgrimage, which he found quite life changing indeed—and even inspired this new training to teach others to meditate. You can find that episode here.
