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their employees. The entire management was present, 20 men in
three-piece suits. I blacked out, completely forgot what I had
prepared and could hardly get a word out - me being a professional
coach... Please don't tell anyone. Luckily a colleague lend me a good
book with lots of tips and a friend provided me with some good
training on speaking in public. Nowadays it's not a problem
anymore.
I feel like shit. The stupid girl dumped me for some dickhead. I will
never get over it.
It can happen to anyone. It happened to one of my friends a while
back. He also thought he would never get over it. He was still
hopelessly in love and felt completely lost without her. But in spite
of feeling desperate, he made a full recovery. He married a woman
who is much more suited to him and they have two children. In
hindsight he is glad his former girlfriend left him.
References
Buber, M. (1970). I and Thou. New York: Scribner’s Sons.
De Haan, E. (2008). Relational Coaching: Journeys towards mastering
one-to-one learning. John Wiley - & Son, Ltd. West Sussex, UK.
Perls, F. S. (1978) Finding self through Gestalt Therapy. Gestalt Journal,
Siminovitch, D., & Van Eron, A. (2006). The Pragmatics of Magic. OD
Practitioner, 38:1.
Sources:
AoEC Conference 2010: Marjorie Shackleton and Marion Gillie
http://www.thegilliepartnership.co.uk/Use-of-self-and-self-disclosurein-coaching.pdf
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