Well Done Ram & Amerie! | Rachel Knightley Coaching
Creative Confidence for Personal and Professional Life
It’s a million (okay, thirty) years since I was a pupil in a school that believed ‘Confident People’ did drama.
‘Confident People’ were a recognised species, signifying there was another species: ‘Not Confident People’.
I’m grateful every day that I had my youth theatre throughout that time and, with it, different messaging and different evidence. There are no separate species. There’s only whether or not we as individuals have found the things that sweep us up; that focus us on what we care about; that summon flow.
Several million (yes, alright, still only thirty) years after I was swallowing the messaging that I ‘wasn’t that sort of person’, a young coaching client of mine thought he wasn’t ‘the sort of person’ who did public speaking, let alone enjoy it. It’s not necessarily that anyone had said that to him, and he’s profoundly confident and very successful in other things he enjoys. But talking about them? To audiences? Wasn’t that about the opposite of having fun and being yourself?
Not anymore.
Seeing him and his sister holding their silver (Grade Seven) medals, and reading through the examiner reports of their (very high) distinctions, what I’m proudest of is hearing that same client looking through his LAMDA notebook and telling us how far he knows he’s come.
It’s never too early and it’s never too late to surprise yourself.