It helps us live a larger than life lifestyle yet stay connected to our authentic self. It ensures that we continue to challenge ourselves in blooming every competency lost somewhere deep within us. It keeps the discovery spirit awake in us.
Peace practiced during coaching and off coaching can yield great benefits to the client.
In this model the alphabets in the word PEACE represents following:
P –Purpose for path
E –exploration for exciting choices
A –Action for agenda
C –Commitment for course
E –Evaluation for effectiveness
As per the ICF code of ethics and conduct the coach plays a very critical role of a facilitator or a catalyst whose presence and extraordinary ability to connect the client to the inner realms of subconscious and super conscious brings about an aha moment and thereby ownership of the progress…
Thus it’s imperative the coaching model also helps the client to periodically assess the satisfaction of the journey. The perspective towards success, peace, accomplishment in our lives is very dynamic, thus coach plays a quintessential role in facilitating the transformational journey.
The model has 5 essential phases or steps that can be used in a cyclical order to ensure constant leverage of ones best resources internal and external.
Phase 1 P –Purpose for path
In this phase the client decides the area of issue or opportunity and the purpose around same. This predominately helps the clients to scan through all the clutter and identify the deepest needs or opportunities that they would like actualize. This is a very critical phase as the rest of the process would be dependent on the fundamental i.e. the purpose for the path.
The purpose behind every facet of life and how it adds to the larger picture of our journey needs to be identified for best results. The journey to any destination becomes a joy and is seamlessly traversed when the purpose is clear.
Phase 2 E-Exploring for exciting choices
Our deepest passions are towards our exciting pursuits. Thus exploring all possible choices to accomplish the purpose is significant. Exploration during a coaching session is almost meditative in nature. This discussion uses the powerful tools of listening and questioning to support the client connect with the conscious and super conscious of the self and leverage on all internal and external resources possible.
Exploration keeping the purpose in mind reveals various assets and road blocks that can be addressed to move into the next stage. Strengthening the empowering beliefs, accentuating the positives, discovering the KSA (Knowledge, Skills and attributes )at this stage can really give an impetus to the pursuit.
Phase 3 A-Actions for Agenda
Very often we are held up in our journey of creating our ideal life; as we don’t action our agenda. This phase supports the client in creating an action plan –maybe long or short term to realise their dreams. Agenda is the road map for the purpose to be realised, and action is to set timelines for execution.
More specific the action plan and the timelines better is the final implementation and the results reaped in conclusion. The Blueprint is created at this stage which is aligned to the overall lofty dream in the background.
Phase 4 C-Commitments for Course
Once the agenda or the action plan is ready, the rigor and commitment towards it, is very critical. One needs to have will power to ensure that the roadmap is taken forward as per the milestones and timelines set. To ensure commitment and ownership towards the course or action map coach can anchor the feeling of accomplishment through visualization or analogy.
The coach also plays a significant role in supporting the commitment towards the course taken up by the client. Even the best of blueprints needs the commitment for seeing the dream take wings. Commitment on the course of timelines, calendar, action items can also be done as review of the roadmap.
Phase 5 E-Evaluations for Effectiveness
Life has lanes, by-lines and dynamic elements where the terrain and the environment can unfold various mysteries while journeying towards one’s purpose. One needs to be open to a course correction if need be. Thus one needs to constantly evaluate the progress of the agenda, with the left brain (logical/rational) and right brain (creative, emotional, sensitivity) to be more aware of the reasons of success or opportunities.
During a coaching session this stage can be used as either opening or closure. For opening a coaching discussion one needs a quick evaluation of story so far, to ensure the discussion is driven towards the logical success or revisiting of the plan for better results.
Thus we see that PEACE as a coaching model can facilitate a coaching discussion and also help calibration or introspection of ones journey at periodic intervals. It’s a model that can empower an individual to gain awareness of purpose behind every action and constantly realign as per one’s own values or philosophy of life. True happiness is through authenticity, and authenticity is living as per our own values in life…rather than getting bogged down by world of chaos.
Practice of this model on regular basis can enable a person to realise self-transcendence and unleash the inner talents.
The PEACE model is also cyclical to ensure that there is no road block in the journey of realization of one’s true potential, and thereby constantly refuelling one’s passion.