What is GREAT coaching – Fred Shoemaker #174

<p>Today we welcome back on to the podcast a great friend of the Brain Booster, Fred Shoemaker.</p> <p>Since spending time at his Extraordinary Golf School over twenty years ago Fred has continued to be an incredible influence on my coaching and my life in general.</p> <p>We had a truly wonderful conversation, an hour of time just literally disappeared.</p> <p>It was an absorbing conversation which hadn’t been planned in any way shape or form. We just bounced ideas of each other with a starting point of ‘what makes a great coach?’</p> <p>As Fred discusses a great coach is NOT someone who is just spouting a formula. Not someone who is passing on just ‘information’.</p> <p>The latest theory of what is the correct method.</p> <p>Not a person who is assessing if a student is doing it ‘right’ or ‘wrong’.</p> <p>A great coach is someone providing an environment where a student can explore his or her own personal experience.</p> <p>To be able to gain genuine and beneficial feedback on what is ACTUALLY going on as opposed to what you THINK is going on.</p> <p>To increase awareness.</p> <p>We look into the nature of the mind and all the words and articles that have been written about it.</p> <p>Yet ultimately the question comes to a fundamental on ‘Do you have a mind? Or Are you your mind?</p> <p>Difficult concepts to get your head around</p> <p>They are some deep questions</p> <p>Challenging concepts</p> <p>Yet as Fred says to be able to recognise the difference between the ‘noise’ the mind is always creating and genuinely beneficial thought is a tremendous skill to develop and encourage.</p> <p>We talk about the dissatisfaction in the game and what is the root cause of this.</p> <p>Even given we are just coming through the worst crisis since the second world war many people are still finding so many ways to be dissatisfied.</p> <p>We look at the comparison game and why that is so destructive</p> <p>It was truly a wonderful session which you will gain so much from</p> <p>Fred’s website is</p> <p><a href="http://www.extra