Open-to-Everyone Group Coaching #1: Incubation and Delaying Action
You know these containers where premature babies are kept and provided a protective environment care until they’re healthy and safe enough to breath and live on their own?
Or a bird sitting on top of their eggs to keep them warm so that they can bring them into hatching?
Both of them are incubation — where there is a nurturing environment to grow and mature.
But how a long baby or a chick can stay in the incubator or the egg?
It will be unique to each one of them.
Incubation a great process when you think from a natural and medical point of view.
We need those times of incubating where we simmer our intentions, get prepared for the action, equip ourselves with necessary resources, tools and skills and prepare our mindset to take action.
As the baby gets healthy and mature enough to breath and function on their own, they’re taken out from the incubator. They cannot stay in that protective, warm, safe and sound environment until they’re 3 years old or learn to walk.
Just like the birds. Chicks cannot stay in the warmth and coziness of the egg until they learn to fly. They have to crack their egg, meet the world and learn to fly as they’re experiencing life.
Once they crack the egg, once they see the light, it is time for them to leave the incubation phase behind so that they can embrace the light and the life.
Our ideas, plans and intentions are the same. We have to let them simmer in our personal incubators but once the time feels right we need to let the life give it a life to that idea — let our ideas to be blended with action which will give them a ground to exist.
Incubating can come in different ways and forms.
You may tend to ponder and reflect excessively.
You may need moments out of your day to think things and experiences thoroughly.
You may need to sit with your thoughts after being exposed to different ideas and stimulations from others.
Sometimes you may find yourself feeling tired of own thinking which makes you crave a change of narrative and exposure to different perspectives.
You may tend to constantly ‘improve’ yourself by investing into courses, programs, self-growth books, educational content and videos.
You may tend to read and acquire every resource out there that can make you equipped to start doing the actual thing (that was me in every academic paper I had to write in my philosophy studies 😅🙌)
You may love to feed yourself with opposing views and ideas to expand your worldview.
You may enjoy the preparation phase of any prospective action than the action phase itself.
Together we’ll be discovering our personal (maybe even sneaky…) ways of incubating which are needed to nurture and simmer our ideas but may potentially delay our action taking.
Together we’ll be focusing on questions like:
“Can may incubation be a hindrance for my potential?”
“Do I use the preparation phase as a cover for something else? Lack of confidence? Feel good enough?”
“Then what is good enough for me?”
“What could be the potential reasons of me delaying to take action?”
“How can I find the sweet spot between incubation to action?”
“How can I feel safe in taking actions?”
How can I dig deep enough to where feel fulfilled in my life while keeping the forward momentum?
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Here are more details about the structure of the session:
Group coaching space is a safe, all-accepting and confidential space.
We will be meeting to take a deep journey within each one of us.
It is not an advisory or guiding environment. You will be invited to take a deep journey within and find your own answers to the topic we’re working with.
Based on the number of people we’ll be sharing the space with, everyone who wants to be coached can get an opportunity to be coached individually while other participants simply listen and find their own echoes of the conversation within themselves.
The pure action of listening without the burden of thinking of a possible reply takes a long way to find our own answers.
You’ll be invited to be coached but of course if you don’t feel like sharing, you’re more than welcomed to stay as a listener and witnesser of the space which will come with its own gifts.
I guess, that’s it for now.
I’m looking forward to this nurturing space we’ll be creating all together.
Much love,
Ecem
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