Coaching With British Sign Language.

I am obsessed with learning.

I fear missing out on an opportunity to learn, an opportunity to challenge the way I do things, to challenge my whole reality.

Its exhausting being me.

A Sunday evening sudden thought happened. These thoughts always lead to some form of insight or trouble! Like when I wondered if I could hollow out a stuffed badger and place a remote controlled car in its stomach area, thus producing a remote controlled badger that could be used to annoy people in the building in which I worked. The RAF banned remote controlled badgers pretty quickly. Or the time I paid for a full page advert in the Yellow Pages advertising a pest control service for escaped rhinos, “Rhino-be-Gone”. This made something of a splash in Inverness but I did get one phone call in my defence.

This thought was about coaching conversations. I always get excited about how simple a conversation is, yet how powerful a conversation can be in terms of clarity, empowerment and confidence building.

Conversations are broadly free of charge.

A conversation in the time it takes to boil a kettle can be life changing, plus you get a cup of tea afterwards.

But what if there was a something that could be added to a conversation, taken away from a conversation, why do we have conversations? Are there other ways of communicating more effectively?

British Sign Language. An official language since April 2022. Used by 150,000 people in the UK because 12 million people in the UK are either deaf or hard of hearing, that’s 1 in 5.

BSL encompasses so many attributes of great communication, is beautifully expressive, powerful and enthralling. Communication fascinates me.

Guess who is learning BSL?!

What will BSL bring to my conversational skills as a coach?

We will find out.