Kate Wolfeden’s Untamed Coaching Adventure - Part Three
In this episode of Untamed Perspectives, we share Part III of Kate’s Untamed Coaching adventure. This week, she joins Jim in the snowy mountains of Bansko, Bulgaria to enjoy some snow shoeing, beer, laughter, deep work and a bruised nose...it’s worth a listen. Audio Transcript: Kate Wolfeden’s Untamed Coaching Adventure - Part Three In part three of Kate Wolfenden’s Untamed coaching adventure, she joins me in the snowy mountains of Bansko, Bulgaria, to enjoy some snow shoeing, beer, laughter, deep work and a bruised nose...it’s worth a read. 3 – ADVENTURE WEEKENDING Being a lady who lives for the outdoors and adventure, it is needless to say that I was just a little bit gutted I couldn’t get Jim’s Untamed Event ‘Island Immersion’ to work with my diary. Never one to take the first hurdle as my fate - before I knew it, I had somewhat cheekily invited myself over to the Bankso Ski Resort, Bulgaria where Jim and his wife Kim were staying, for a weekend of adventure and 1:1 coaching. I mean, I was looking forward to it, so hey, if all else fails that makes an impressive 50% popularity poll ;) So one red eye flight, then a shuttle service into the mountains sat next to a cyber security expert to scare the bejesus out of me, and I was in the clean fresh air of a mountain ski resort. Here for a weekend. With a guy I’ve never met. To share my deepest darkest secrets. Hmmm. Smart move, Kate ;) Haha – No, it wasn’t like that at all. But I figured you might be thinking like that so I thought I’d out it ☺ It’s weird one isn’t it. To anyone who knows Jim they’ll know what I mean when I say you just feel totally comfortable with him. To those that don’t yet, trust me on this one – you will. We met on the Saturday morning in an awesome little bar for a hearty breakfast, chatted about life, love and everything, before moving into the practical stuff. The flow of the day was great actually. Chatting at a table about new concepts and ways of thinking, so that I was free to focus and write notes when I needed to - then pop off to get some snow shoes and hit the hills to help it all sink in. The pace was great too. Quite a lot of what Jim shared seemed to swamp my brain at times. Not because it was particularly complex, but somehow it was challenging a deeper set of beliefs in me - so in some places I was facing an internal mental resistance and in others it was almost as if I’d just got the Christmas decs out and didn’t know where to begin to start untangling them, so that I could work out what’s broken and how to fix it. The time together was effortless, unstructured but also very productive. That being said, I do have to admit, I did let the… What are we focusing on these next few days, Jim? What are we doing next and how does this all fit together? …Gremlin out to play a couple of times at the beginning. Haha - Jim is so patient! Another “trust me” or two from him and I went with the flow and really appreciated that I did. I don’t know about you, but if I learn something from a book or being told something, I may retain it if it is important to me, but invariably the majority of what I have learned will creep in one ear and out the other in a matter of days. The time on the slopes chatting, laughing and walking enabled us to embed the learnings into the realities of my life through conversation, applied examples, deep questioning from Jim and laughter. It really helped solidify the learnings. Beer and cheesy chips also help too. Just saying ;) If I met you one day, I’ll tell you why thanks to that Saturday night I now have a permanently slightly crooked nose (no one’s fault but my own and STONE sober, might I add), but for now let’s say, whiling away an evening with Jim and Kim was a beautiful and fun way to let the mind unwind. As for Sunday, I didn’t know what to expect but felt complete peace with whatever we planned. I had got so much value out