When Bill Murray walked into the Art Institute of Chicago and looked at the painting “The Song of the Lark” by Jules Adolphe Breton, he saw a woman standing in a field at sunrise. If she could get up and go to work for one more day, then so could he. Was it a sign to carry on?
Others see a sunset.
And that’s my point – we need art, and its ability to meet people where they are and provide meaning. I’ve come to see coaching in that way, an artistic endeavour, a creative process – not a science. There is science in sport, of course, but not in coaching.