Finesse: Color It In

Musing...
There’s form and there’s finesse, or there’s outline and there’s filling in. Form, structure, outline are a starting point. Once you’ve achieved some mastery of a skill, craft, art, practice, or routine, it comes into living color by your own richness.

“And all the colors I am inside have not been invented yet.” - Shel Silverstein

Charise’s Turn:

Coloring books for adults are a new trend. The last time I was prompted to color, other than with my daughters, was for an anatomy for dancers class, with the anatomy coloring book. Learning about muscles and bones became a participatory act – the time and care it took to fill in each segment made an imprint on memory that staring at a chart can not provide.

On a recent visit with my co-author of A Portable Identity, I eyed a coloring book on her coffee table. One page consisted of an image that corresponds to the logo of my website – bare feet stepping. Debra offered this to me, and I plan to locate all the colored pencils in my home to color it. I imagine that in the course of coloring, I will learn more about what my logo means and why I picked it. Of course, the feet stepping has to do with movement and also travel, hence “coaching moves”. Color play will allow for attentiveness to detail, greater individuality, more imagination...we'll see what happens as my feet bloom! 

Get Fired Up: 

It's common to get into a rut with routine and structure. You know this is happening when you lose the nuances of inspiration, acting more by rote or habit. Access your vibrancy, focus on finesse and find subtlety - color it in! 

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Finesse: Teasing Out Essence

Musing…       

Our fine-essence is held in the seed of our being…we simply need to draw it forth, to finesse the largess of our potential.

Ira Progoff, author of At a Journal Workshop, uses the metaphor of an acorn:

“. . . what is involved is a sense of the largeness of a human person. The unconscious is not so much the part of the psyche that has been repressed, the unconscious is not so much our past experience, as it is that part of the human being that has not yet been experienced, just as an acorn contains in its unconscious the dream of the oak tree and that dream expresses the coming into being of the oak tree. That means that working with a person, we have to have a method of drawing forth what is in the seed, the still unlived potentials of the person (ed.).”

Kate’s Turn:

Finesse is a term I’ve learned in the card game of Bridge. Simply put, it is a strategy used to tease out the location of the power cards. This applies in coaching as well – we want the refinement of ones essence to be manifested; we use “power questions” to tease out the unlived potentials, to draw forth what lies in the seed of their being. This is my current power question: “What is the most compelling, beautiful work I’m capable of creating at this point in my life?”

“What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters, compared to what lies within us.”

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Get Fired Up:   

What is your dream that expresses the coming-into-being of your seed destiny? What is your power question?

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