Coyote’s have been around me for a long time. I have only just lately become more aware of them. For too long I was ignoring them. No, that is not right. I just haven’t been paying attention.
And coyote just waited . . .
I have just recently returned to the country side. The lonesome call seemed to be just outside the window. I could see the small figures sitting out in the field, staying just at the edge of an imaginary line. Close enough to watch, to be heard. Far enough away to be hard to see clearly. Far enough to just on the edge of awareness.
But something has changed. They come to the yard. They don’t walk onto our property. They follow the fence line almost pacing the line that separates their area from ours.
And now, I wonder what he is up to and what he trying to say.
I have had an opportunity to work more closely with the students I teach and the colleagues I work with. Routinely I find myself in group situations or one – on – one. In each situation there is a desire to solve a problem, to discuss an issue, and generally to find a way to make things better. I’ve learned to call this counselling. Others have called it leadership or management. In some areas it is seen as servantship. I’ve taken opportunity to explore through retreats where young people and myself try to find our way, challenge ourselves and explore. Only just now have I realized how all of this has come together.
Coyote mentorship is just one model of working with people. It is one model that talks very dearly to me. It resonates with what I have seen and what still needs to be found. This site is an attempt to reconcile with what I’m learned about counselling and what the coyote is trying to say (through the wisdom of many great people and not directly through me). I think this is a new thing . . . but very little seems to be new in our vast world.
Most of this will not be based on hard research but just a way I’m trying to make sense of things. Please share with me your thoughts and experiences. It is easier to be successful if we work together.
D. Collins
