{"id":7667,"date":"2017-09-25T09:05:28","date_gmt":"2017-09-25T09:05:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.coachcert.com\/coachingblog\/?p=7667"},"modified":"2017-09-23T18:56:47","modified_gmt":"2017-09-23T18:56:47","slug":"witnessing-acts-of-kindness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.coachcert.com\/coachingblog\/witnessing-acts-of-kindness\/","title":{"rendered":"Witnessing Acts of Kindness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>During <a href=\"https:\/\/www.coachcert.com\/training.html\">coach training<\/a> we focus on the positive.\u00a0 We also practice being present and aware.\u00a0 These are coaching skills.\u00a0 Being a great coach means making coaching skills a habit so that we apply them easily and naturally during coaching sessions.\u00a0 Apply these coaching skills of focusing on the positive and being present in life.\u00a0 Focus on the good that comes out of disasters or every day challenges and be aware of acts of kindness that follow.<\/p>\n<p>What <a href=\"https:\/\/www.randomactsofkindness.org\">acts of kindness<\/a> have you witnessed recently?<\/p>\n<p>A Story About Acts of Kindness:<\/p>\n<p>Hurricane Irma came through my community.\u00a0 While it was much worse in other areas, many neighbors and friends sustained damage and lost power for up to six days.\u00a0 What was most remarkable is how much people step up and help each other.\u00a0 In our neighborhood, friends and neighbors drove around with tools to find where to help others, then jumped in to repair and clean-up from the storm.\u00a0 Other friends and neighbors checked on houses that were evacuated to take care of any damage.\u00a0 When the power was out for six days, some helped move food to places that had power.\u00a0 One friend and neighbor who sells homes contacted owners whose homes had power and asked if neighbors without power could use the home.\u00a0 There were so many acts of kindness!\u00a0 The storm wreaked havoc everywhere and it also brought out the best in so many people.<\/p>\n<p>Apply the focus on the positive and being present that you learned in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.coachcert.com\/training\/certified-professional-coach\/program-overview.html\">coaching certification<\/a> by sharing stories or pictures of acts of kindness. \u00a0Add a comment here with your story because it is inspiring for all and acknowledges the people who gave their time, energy, and resources to help others.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During coach training we focus on the positive.\u00a0 We also practice being present and aware.\u00a0 These are coaching skills.\u00a0 Being a great coach means making &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[131,470,16],"tags":[556,558,48,557,85,50,99],"class_list":["post-7667","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-coaching-program","category-coaching-resources","category-coaching-stories","tag-acts-of-kindness","tag-being-present","tag-coach","tag-coach-certifciation","tag-coach-training","tag-coaching","tag-coaching-skills","latest_post"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.coachcert.com\/coachingblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7667","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.coachcert.com\/coachingblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.coachcert.com\/coachingblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.coachcert.com\/coachingblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.coachcert.com\/coachingblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7667"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.coachcert.com\/coachingblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7667\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7668,"href":"https:\/\/www.coachcert.com\/coachingblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7667\/revisions\/7668"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.coachcert.com\/coachingblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.coachcert.com\/coachingblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.coachcert.com\/coachingblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}