The Coach's Journey - build a coaching business with integrity

#103: Bob Singha – Coaching Is Not Learning; It Is Remembering


Listen Later

Every village and every community throughout human history has relied upon people who can facilitate conversations, allowing sacred truths to be passed along generations. In a modern world gripped by a process of massive transformation, this vital, ancient work now falls to coaches.

That is the view of Bob Singha, a master coach who has spent 28 years helping people connect the day-to-day reality of their lives with the eternal teachings of their ancestral heritage. In conversation with Alex Swallow, Bob reflects on his evolution as a coach and as an elder, which he sees as a process of remembering rather than one of learning.

Across decades of work with young people around the world, facing lives blighted by trauma and violence, Bob has found that communities everywhere face similar problems, and that the solutions to them lie in the deep wisdom of our ancestral memories.

Using stories as medicine and as conveyors of wisdom, Bob helps people to remember something about themselves.

In this conversation, Bob and Alex acknowledge the call being sounded for coaches who don’t feel at home in the standard business models that commodify and separate us. They also illustrate the remarkable role coaches can play in connecting communities with the intelligence that gave birth to them.

In this episode, Bob and Alex also talk about:

- How studying something as if you’re going to teach it leads to accelerated learning

- Our connection with the sages, the rishis, the sadhus and fakirs who throughout history have integrated spiritual wisdom and worldly responsibilities

- The power of the question: what are the whispers of your ancestors saying in this moment?

- The relationship between the way we play games and the way we live our lives

- A hilarious story that revealed to Bob at a young age the importance of language, and how we can use it to speak to both the temporary and the eternal.

THINGS WE TALKED ABOUT THAT YOU MIGHT BE INTERESTED IN:

- Timothy Gallwey https://theinnergame.com/

- John Whitmore https://www.performanceconsultants.com/about-us/sir-john-whitmore/

- Tony Robbins https://www.tonyrobbins.com/

- Stephen Covey on interdependence https://challengingcoaching.co.uk/stephen-covey-interdependence-the-deeper-facts/

- Spark Inside https://www.sparkinside.org/

- The Coaching Inn https://thecoachinginn.podbean.com/

- It Takes A Village https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=llpz6bADkZU

- Gladeana McMahon http://gladeanamcmahon.com/

- Anthony Eldridge Rogers https://uk.linkedin.com/in/anthonyeldridgerogers

...more
View all episodesView all episodes
Download on the App Store

The Coach's Journey - build a coaching business with integrityBy Robbie Swale

  • 4.9
  • 4.9
  • 4.9
  • 4.9
  • 4.9

4.9

8 ratings


More shows like The Coach's Journey - build a coaching business with integrity

View all
Test Match Special by BBC Radio 5 Live

Test Match Special

222 Listeners

Where Should We Begin? with Esther Perel by Esther Perel Global Media

Where Should We Begin? with Esther Perel

14,825 Listeners

The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett by DOAC

The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett

7,001 Listeners

Feel Better, Live More with Dr Rangan Chatterjee by Dr Rangan Chatterjee: GP & Author

Feel Better, Live More with Dr Rangan Chatterjee

4,047 Listeners

The Wellness Scoop by The Wellness Scoop

The Wellness Scoop

1,327 Listeners

The Daily Stoic by Daily Stoic | Backyard Ventures

The Daily Stoic

4,755 Listeners

The Coaching Inn by 3D Coaching

The Coaching Inn

3 Listeners

The High Performance Podcast by High Performance

The High Performance Podcast

629 Listeners

A Bit of Optimism by Simon Sinek

A Bit of Optimism

2,183 Listeners

Coaching Real Leaders by Harvard Business Review / Muriel Wilkins

Coaching Real Leaders

652 Listeners

Huberman Lab by Scicomm Media

Huberman Lab

28,304 Listeners

The Rest Is Politics by Goalhanger

The Rest Is Politics

3,271 Listeners

The News Agents by Global

The News Agents

981 Listeners

The Rest Is Politics: Leading by Goalhanger

The Rest Is Politics: Leading

987 Listeners

BigDeal by Codie Sanchez

BigDeal

731 Listeners