This week I attended a coaching immersion down in Kent, UK. I was one of 12 in an awe-inspiring group of people doing incredible things in the world.
I have a notebook filled with a year’s worth of articles. I won’t attempt to summarise them all in a single post here, but the content will pour through over the coming months.
One thing I will share is that at the end of the immersion each of us wrote acknowledgements for one another. I received some of the most powerful and touching acknowledgements I’ve ever received in my life.
Once we had read all these acknowledgements, it was time to write an acknowledgement to ourselves. Here is what I wrote about myself:
Tahmid, you are an exceptional, unique human being with an incredible, one-of-a-kind gift. Greatness is you, awaits you and is your destiny. The trials have been created to take you to ever higher levels. Own it. Embrace it. Be it. The world is at your fingertips.
I have never written a statement like this before. But in the moment it felt like exactly what I both needed to say and to hear. I was in a trance-like state when I wrote it. These are powerful words that even surprise me now when reading them back.
The theme of this week for me has been the realisation, recognition and acknowledgement of my own power. We went deep, and I shared some of my deepest personal struggles that I haven’t spoken about before. The experience got rather intense, and it felt like being in a pressure cooker when we were confronted with some very stark realities about our lives.
But it is in the discomfort that we find our greatest space of growth. Coming through such experiences gives us a new level of self-knowing. Things that once felt scary suddenly start to feel easy. It was unsurprising that a friend remarked that on my return I had a charged energy that was visible before I even talked about the experience on the immersion.
Whilst the experience was powerful, one thing we discussed is how gaining insights in of itself does not actually do really do anything unless we act upon them. (Actually, it was put in less eloquent terms: ‘f*** insights’).
For me, I’ve been sitting on my book, Make Diversity Matter to You since releasing it over six months ago. Despite putting in the work and building my knowledge and experience, I haven’t done as much as I really could to share my work with the world.
It’s why during the immersion I committed to creating the Make Diversity Matter to You Programme. It’s a month long experience starting in July consisting of four 90 min weekly webinars and a community group with peer learning activities and resources. Along with the webinars, each participant will get one recorded 30 minute laser session, along with an hour private coaching session.
This is beyond what other courses I’ve been on in the way it blends the learning on diversity elements with the personal transformation aspects.This was actually part of creating a ‘no-brainer’ offer during the immersion, so all of this is for £350 / €350, even though I know that the value is at least five times this price.
Acknowledging my greatness means sharing it with the world, so it is time I do that. If you’re interested in knowing more about the programme, drop me a message. I would also be really appreciative if you could share this with anyone who you think would be interested by this.