Sailing the 'C's

BRIALOGUE 2


Sailing his own boat from Vancouver was how Cresswell Walker (‘Cress’) made his way initially to Singapore. Now, 14 months on, he’s about to return for a family reunion. I only half-jokingly asked if he was taking the boat back.

The sea journey is significant in that Cress looks at life as something of a voyage…(I wonder if he has ever been nick-named ‘Water Cress’) But with a breezy view: Course rather than Goal, indicating a voyage along which you can meander, moor and mull over, as opposed to a damn-everyone-else laser-focus fixation that achieving one’s goals seems to have become for some.

An ‘I’ specialist would gabble on, but Cress halted, adding “I don’t wanna bore ya.” Far from it. I was curious to learn about his 5 Cs: Choice, not Risk, Collaboration, not competition.

He brings this philosophy to coaching, wanting to help people make their own choices in the sea of ‘schlock’ they encounter daily.

We share the view that new learning pathways are due to open, that current orthodoxy is beyond its ‘self life’, as I would call it.

We finished our drinks and went our separate ways, but I sense we’ll talk again. What was his drink? Water.