Anyone wanna talk coaching/counselling/therapy training? (rant incoming but I promise it’s important shit)
I’m reading “The Coaching Manual” by Julie Starr for class, and I keep having minor anger management issues because of the absolute ignorance regarding marginalisation and inequality. The people who’ve written these chapters are giving wealthy, white, cishet, able-bodied Chad with an intensity that is making me throw up in my mouth a little. “People who don’t see being made redundant as an *opportunity* have a victim mentality.” For the love of having a fucking horizon that extends past the edge of your own nose! Are you kidding me? Are you legitimately this clueless about systemic circumstances?
I think that while I am beginning to see how coaching principles *can* be helpful in supporting people, it’s also become very obvious to me why I’ve always given coaches quite a bit of initial side-eye until they’ve proven to me that they are decent people. That field unfortunately *reeks* of privilege. If only rich people can afford to get support from a coach, of course the coach remains completely unaware of what life is like for the non-rich.
Let’s hope that not all of the books I have to read will make me this cranky (fat chance, because I know “The Body Keeps The Score” is on the list 🤮) but I will definitely hurry the fuck up with supplementing my learning with resources about therapy that use an intersectional feminist lens.
I hope I’m not the only one in my program who is noticing these things 🤞🏻