Coaching reaches Baltic States

Today I had a possibility to attend first organized event in Riga, Latvia for coaches in a Baltic region. Considering that people with different level of knowledge about coaching attended trainings they were made more as introduction to a coaching with some practice, “mediation”. I was positively surprised that attendance was very good even it was a Saturday morning. People were actively participating. Even though some of them were surprised of what coaching is, I didn’t see unsatisfied or judging faces around.
Maybe accepting new things is the good skill what we have? Are we already trained in our lives for changes? Living in such a dynamic climate when spring with sun and flowers comes changes snow full winter and summer comes after a spring, we are just used to live trough transition, changes. Therefore we need to use the ability to be flexible in the period of changing world.
When people in Latvia will obtain feeling that to be coached is good, the coaching business will be growing. In expanding such a western practice need to be aware of northern thinking that people here are willing to do everything in their own way, they do not want to accept “help”, or I am a looser if I need to be coached. But no it just means that you really care about your life and want to involve in it as much as you can.