The coach/client breakdown and why we are still burnt out..

There is an old saying by Samuel Taylor Coleridge that goes like this:

"Water, water everywhere, / Nor any drop to drink." Lines from “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner,” The speaker, a sailor on a becalmed ship, surrounded by salt water that he cannot drink.

I wonder if I am the only person out there wondering why we are surrounded by coaches, mentors and transformation guru's, health experts and change facilitators, promising sustainable change in our burnt-out, stressed lives, yet humans are in a more heightened state of stress and burnout than ever before. The teachings, coaching, mentoring is just more of the same, sliced and diced, re-framed, reiterated and re-packaged in a shiny new box.

I see that it's a systemic problem that we still haven't solved. Things aren't actually changing on a global scale and since the WHO deemed burnout an official 'diagnosable' problem in the business world, almost two years ago, whilst the desire to move forward is there, the result are not. 

So why not?

Surely it's time for a shift, a true shift that has a profound and sustainable impact. And its one that means its time to DO something differently than we already have. To TEACH differently than we already have. To THINK differently than we already have.

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