How does one explain a coaching relationship? It’s much like trying to explain dancing.

They’re both difficult to put into words because of the mental, physical, and intangible experience. Much like the coaching experience, when you are dancing:

One person can’t carry the action. In other words, “it takes two to tango”. This is why coaching is sought in the first place. If you knew how to overcome the particular challenge or how to reach the goal you have in mind, you would have done it already. Coaching and dancing require two people to make it work and it can’t rely disproportionately on one person. When two people come together with a goal in mind, art is created.

Both people are tuned into each other. Physical contact, hearing the rhythm, breathing (hey, it’s a workout!), moving with the other require a lot of sensing and perception. It’s more than the physical movement in dancing (and words spoken in coaching); It’s a mental exercise of the human brain as well.
And lastly, another way the coaching experience is much like dancing:

When someone asks, “what is it like to be coached?”, it can be challenging to give it justice because it is an art, much like dancing.

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