Coaching the Global Village ™ ©: A THOUGHT paper on powerful possibilities
Proposal: To utilize the power of the coach approach as exemplified today with the evolution of the profession of Life Coaching for personal and professional growth, I am proposing that a Coaching the Global Village program/project be developed to create positive social change for the underserved, undervalued, underfed, undereducated, and underappreciated in many of the villages and towns of the world, especially in places like Africa, South America and Mexico amongst others.
My big vision is for a coaching initiative I am calling "Coaching the Global Village" in partnership with Rotary International, use the coach approach to combat hunger, poverty, and education in the poorer regions of the world.
Rotary of which I was a member for 15 years is already in almost all countries...So i hope to propose a joint effort with them and then get coaches to volunteer their skills in third world countries. Just as the medical profession has DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS, we surely have many highly skilled coaches who would volunteer their skills to provide coaching to village leaders and men and women who want to improve their lives economically, socially, spiritually and live more purposefully and in a way of thriving rather than surviving. Yes, there are many services they need, but coaching as a conversation of empowerment, will evoke their own wisdom, and guidance to make a collaborative and creative effort to change their living situation. If more food is needed, what are the pathways? If better education is needed, what can be done creatively? All of this can be accomplished in conjunction with existing governmental and international programs, and it can be magnified in ways outside of governmental bureaucracy just as Rotary International has done with eradicating polio throughout the world. Or the model of micro banking that has been shown to be effective in small villages in third world countries.
And through these efforts, this initiative would win the Nobel peace prize!!!!!
Patrick Williams, EdD
Master Certified Coach and Psychologist
Author, Speaker, Trainer, Coach and
Ambassador of Life Coaching
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