Written by: Silvana Avram, Executive Contributor
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+ The 5 Cs we must reinforce individually and collectively: Confidence, Courage, Creativity, Compassion, Collaboration
I am biased, I am a Life Coach.
I was brought to Coaching by my keen interest in human nature and by my desire to transform lives for the better, my life included. Like many of you, I am passionate about empowering people to take control of their life and really be who they are meant to be. Being a teacher and a mentor, I could see first-hand how important it is to feel supported, encouraged, and guided early on. Without a doubt, the aspect I most enjoyed about teaching was helping my students feel confident, inspiring them to trust their abilities, to aim higher. Coaching came as a natural next step. It offered me the opportunity to take my passion to a new level. A Mentor sets an example and offers support. A Coach empowers you to discover your own answers and forge your own path. It is an incredibly powerful experience.
Coaching started in sports – tennis, more specifically – to help athletes improve their performance by better controlling their emotional responses and strengthening the power of their mind. It has since progressed and expanded exponentially, and I am very happy to see that it is now widely used in almost all areas of life, successfully.
Around the globe, coaching in all its forms and variations is helping people to develop their skills, think strategically, perform more efficiently, have more balanced and more fulfilling relationships, take their career or business to a new level, and improve their lives.
I want to believe that soon, seeing a coach regularly will become as accessible and as normal as going to the dentist or to the ophthalmologist. These examples were not picked randomly. We go to the dentist to alleviate a nagging toothache, and we go to the ophthalmologist to improve our vision. Coaching has similar functions, symbolically. Coaching helps us identify and address bad habits or limiting beliefs that lead to blockages and pain. It allows us to broaden our perspective and see our goals clearly.
I am convinced that Coaching, or “The Art of Empowering Conversations” as I like to call it, has the potential to transform us, individually, and collectively.
On a personal level, each one of us can benefit from honest feedback, unconditional support, inspiration, courage, vision, commitment, and a sense of empowerment. When you have a coach on your side the sky is the limit. It is that powerful.
As a community, the happier each one of us is, the happier we will all be. Learning to work as a team, and finally recognizing the power of solidarity, is, undoubtedly, the most important step we must take together, as humanity. We have lost too much time and too much energy being selfish and divided. We must change strategy.
If you believe, like me, that we are all in this together, then supporting and encouraging each other should come naturally.
We can do this. During the past decades, we have made huge advances in understanding human nature, and we have all the tools we need to build a fairer, more harmonious, and more compassionate society.
What we need right now is awareness, positive energy, and the determination to write a better story, for ourselves and for humanity.
To help us achieve our goal, I believe that Coaching for Fulfilment is the ideal strategy. Because it helps each one of us become more aware, more confident, and more responsible. And, as importantly, it teaches us to work together, for the higher good of our community.
“Coaching for Fulfilment is the most powerful tool we have, to transform our life, individually, and to work collectively to create a better future for humanity!” ‒ Silvana Avram
Think about how much happier our world would be if each one of us felt appreciated, supported, and fulfilled, able to share our gifts and bring our valuable contribution to the world!
We must introduce Coaching for Fulfilment in schools, workplaces, and communities, in short, make it universally accessible and give it a central place in our society.
The way I see it, Coaching for Fulfilment empowers individuals to find their passion, share their gift with the world, give meaning and purpose to their life, create a lasting legacy by bringing their unique contribution to society, and feel fulfilled and happy.
It draws on all the wisdom we have accumulated so far throughout the relatively short history of humanity: spirituality, philosophy, science, psychology, neurolinguistic advances, and technology.
I see this form of Coaching as the cornerstone for all the other types of coaching. Ultimately, we all want to be happy. It is great to be successful, but it is truly wonderful to feel fulfilled, to find that sense of inner peace, lasting satisfaction, and serenity.
Coaching for Fulfilment focuses on empowering us to be authentic, to honor our uniqueness, our gifts, and our dreams, to trust who we are, to enjoy being ourselves, and to be the best we can be.
We don’t need to change ourselves to fit into society. On the contrary. By embracing who we are, living authentically, and honoring our gifts, we get to transform reality.
Although each path is unique, surprising, and constantly expanding, in my experience, there are 5 major themes that must first be explored on the individual journey of Coaching for Fulfilment.
The 5 Cs of Coaching for Fulfilment
1. Confidence
One of the most precious gifts we instantly receive from Coaching for Fulfilment is the gift of confidence.
Confidence in who we are, confidence in our talents, confidence in our ability to create the life we deserve and desire, confidence in our capacity to make a valuable contribution to society.
When we are confident, we find solutions to all challenges.
When we are confident, we feel safe and strong.
When we are confident, we are generous and altruistic – because we trust ourselves and we trust humanity.
2. Courage
Coaching for Fulfilment gives us the courage to follow our dreams. The courage to be who we want to be. With courage, we overcome our doubts and hesitations and gain clarity of purpose. We become fully committed to our path. We feel motivated and inspired and we can face any obstacles on our journey.
It takes courage to defeat our fears and be the best we can be.
When we have courage, we can face adversity.
When we have courage, we share our gifts with the world.
When we have courage, we support each other so we can build, together, a better society.
3. Creativity
Coaching for Fulfilment encourages us to listen to our intuition, trust our uniqueness, and express ourselves freely. We all share the richness of life, and the ability to reinvent ourselves and try new ways of being.
Coaching empowers us to take responsibility and to become the co-creators of our lives.
When we honor our creativity, we transform every challenge into an opportunity.
When we honor our creativity, we welcome each day with wonder and gratitude – we know that there is no limit to who we can be.
When we honor our creativity, we create the life we desire, and we inspire each other. We live joyfully.
4. Compassion
Coaching for Fulfilment helps us better understand who we are. Through coaching, we learn to reconnect with our inner child, listen to our heart and accept our vulnerabilities.
Coaching helps us to be kind and patient with ourselves. To be forgiving and encouraging. Ultimately, we learn to love ourselves unconditionally.
When we develop compassion, we treat ourselves more lovingly.
When we develop compassion, we respect our struggles and our hesitations, we give ourselves more credit, and we honor our humanity.
When we develop compassion, we learn to see the best in ourselves and others. We replace division with unity.
5. Collaboration and collective consciousness
We all need support and encouragement to cope with the ups and downs of life, especially in our fast-changing world. For me, Coaching is the noblest example of the immense power of collaboration. We support each other. We empower each other.
We bring out the best in each other.
As a Coach, I always thank those I work with because I am aware of how much I learn from them. Coaching is an exchange. It’s a team effort, and victories are always shared. I see every progress that each one of us makes, feeling happier, stronger, more confident, or more inspired, as a victory for humanity.
Every encounter is an enriching exchange. Coaching has taught me that we can only succeed together. I’d like to think that through my passionate work as a Coach I help shift our old paradigm of division and competition, and replace it with the deep sense of oneness and compassion I feel.
Through my rich ‒ and wonderfully enriching ‒ experience as a Coach, I have certainly deepened my conviction that collaboration is an essential part of our personal and shared fulfillment. We have a common destiny as humanity
When we collaborate, there is nothing we cannot achieve together.
When we collaborate, we feel stronger, enriched, powerful, and invincible.
When we collaborate, we honor each other’s gifts and contributions, and, together, we change our world for the better.
Confidence, Courage, Creativity, Compassion for ourselves and others, and Collaboration that leads to an enhanced collective consciousness are some of the major themes Coaching for Fulfilment can help us explore, so we can write a better story, individually and collectively.
I guess by now you have understood. I see Coaching for Fulfilment as an integral part of creating a new story for humanity and building a fairer and more peaceful society in which everyone feels valued and appreciated.
We all want to contribute and to know that our contribution matters. Coaching can help us have the confidence to unleash our individual potential, the courage to pursue our dreams, the creativity to design the life we deserve and desire, the compassion to see beauty in ourselves and others, and the collaborative approach that will lead us to create a better world. Coaching is a team effort. It highlights the power of solidarity, the importance of supporting each other, and of working together towards a common goal.
Even after years of practice I still feel exultant every time I witness the life-changing effect that an authentic coaching conversation can have.
Always surprising, always inspiring, Coaching for Fulfilment really is the gift that keeps on giving. Because when we live joyfully, we share our joy with others. The more fulfilled we feel as individuals, the better our world will be.
You can see how passionate I am about this! It is my sincere hope that Coaching for Fulfilment will continue to play a pivotal role in the years to come in helping millions of individuals find happiness and fulfillment and enabling all of us, together, to build a happier, more harmonious society.
Perhaps one day the term Coaching itself will become obsolete because we will have all learned to be coaches, to bring out the best in each other, and to work collaboratively.
For now, let us continue our journey of fulfillment, with confidence, courage, creativity, and compassion, so we can honor our common destiny, write a more uplifting story, and create a worthy legacy for humanity.
Silvana Avram
Silvana Avram, Executive Contributor Brainz Magazine
Silvana Avram is a successful, Inspirational Life Coach, philosopher, author, teacher, and founder of Life Coaching with Silvana – whose mission is to empower us to embrace our uniqueness, fall in love with life, fulfill our potential and create a beautiful legacy.
Fascinated from a young age by the mystery of life and our place in the universe, Silvana has been on a quest to find her own answers to the big existential questions facing humanity. Now an acclaimed Coach and Author, she draws on her extensive study of Philosophy, Psychology, Meditation, Holistic Healing, and Spirituality to create a uniquely inspirational and empowering style of Coaching – also reflected in her Book “Being You and Loving You” in which she guides us through an unforgettable, transformative journey of self-discovery and self-love.
Convinced that we can overcome the prevalent paradigms of fear and division, Silvana has recently focussed her attention on developing a radically innovative approach, outlined in her upcoming book, “Living in Eternity” – and which has earned her an unexpected nickname: “Miss Eternity”! She argues passionately that, rather than chasing goal after goal and living for tomorrow, we should, instead, live every day, every moment, with the joy, awe, and serenity we experience when we see our lives from the perspective of Eternity. When we choose to live in Eternity, everything falls into place, everything we do takes on a different meaning, and we become aware that, as humanity, we are, in fact, constantly creating our common legacy.
Silvana’s ambition: is to inspire us to write a better story for ourselves – and for humanity – in Eternity!
