Leading Positive Change Journal - Leninka

This coaching assignement leaded me to a positive change in many ways. 

As a Coach, I think this session exceeded my expectations, in a way that Patrick and I found new discoveries about feeling gratitude. In the listening part, I found it was easier for me. I could look at him and I made eye contact. I think because we had a trust environment.

In the mirroring part, I was not trying to give him some advice. I told him why he felt more grateful now than before. He told me, the grateful post leaded him to positive change. For him, being grateful was an effort, but his reflective entry changed his attitude a lot. In the summarizing part, I emphasized the words of being positive and also being grateful so I can lead the coaching session to this subject. For the questioning part, I think was very important to lead the session with the right questions such as:  How his behaviour changed this week and what insights he learned about himself. After that, it was easier for him to tell me that feeling positive is the main key for being grateful. When we are positive, we can see the world in another way even when we have difficulties. Sometimes he had negative thoughts and he couldn’t go deeper about feeling gratitude. So, for him being positive all the time was for him because he is not used to. However, he tried a lot to change his attitude this week.  The Catalyzing part was easier because we had together a lot of discoveries, so we found opportunities together too. We talked about how important is staying positive even when we have difficulties. Indeed, when you see the positive side of everything, we can being grateful and find solutions to a specific problem.

As a coachee, I think was easier for me to discuss about gratitude than before. I based my gratitude in being more confident with myself. Before I was not feeling gratitude, because I saw the negative part of being here and not the opportunities. The session with Patrick made me realize that I was not seeing the advantages of living here. Patrick listened to me and asked me the correct questions in order to look deeper of my problem. I think I was not enjoying the process of being in Quebec, and I was just studying to accomplish a goal.  When I wrote the post, I started to think that I have a lot to be grateful. In the session, I told him about how being in a community helped me pass the obstacles here. Also, have the support of my parents was so important to come here. Now, I think I feel grateful with myself now. Indeed, I took the opportunity to study here and maybe in the future work too. I don’t regret my decision now. Indeed, I think feeling gratitude was the first step to have a better attitude. Therefore, I think the session was very useful to me in order to have a positive change in my life.