Trust is at the center of coaching, without trust coaching isn’t possible. Trust between coach and coachee allows the coachee the opportunity of exploration, the expression of fears or doubts, the communication of new ideas and excitement and much more. When a trusting relationship develops between the coach and the coachee it allows the coachee to progressively develop a sense of trust in their own ideas and goals. Coaching works from a understanding that the coachee has all the resources they need to identify goals, consider realities and issues related to the goal, locate options which suit them best and decide on which ones to take forward and when. Learning to trust oneself comes easily for some, for others it can be more difficult to access, accept or allows to happen. When we are trusting we connect with our instinct or intuition. There may be an absence of conscious reasoning but nevertheless a gut feeling persists. The origin of the word trust comes from the Old Norse traust, from traustr meaning ‘strong’. When we are strong we are able to perform our chosen thinking or action well and powerfully, holding firm in our reasons for taking a particular course of action.
noun
1 confidence, belief, faith, freedom from suspicion/doubt, sureness, certainty, certitude, assurance, conviction, credence, reliance.
2 responsibility, duty, obligation.
3 safe keeping, keeping, protection, charge, care, custody; trusteeship, guardianship.
verb
1 have faith in, put/place one’s trust in, have (every) confidence in, believe in, pin one’s hopes/faith on; rely on, depend on, bank on, count on, be sure of, be convinced by, swear by; confide in.
2 hope, expect, think likely, dare say, imagine, believe, assume, presume, suppose, take it; informal guess.
3 entrust, put in the hands of, allow to look after/use.
4 consign, commit, give, hand over, turn over, assign, commend.
