The act of coaching has revealed certain fundamental truths about my understanding of our capacities as individuals and synergistically as a team; and the need for co-creation to champion the same. My team and I have been able to build bridges that connect our stakeholders to our intended actions towards community building via thought-provoking coaching sessions with Ms. Lee, Jaung Ah of ACBC. We have been able to upscale our trust for our community and team, rediscovered ourselves towards relationship building, time management, attention to detail, and ultimately enhanced our professional prowess for effective communication, teamwork, and organizational skills. Our next plans are to walk the paved way while nurturing the next generation of leaders. In a nutshell, the coaching sessions revealed one fundamental truth: We have all the answers we are looking for. What we need is a coach to help us look the right way to get them.

I fully endorse Ms. Jaung Ah Lee as a team coach. She offers realistic, insightful, and effective approaches for assisting people in advancing their goals. I enlisted Ms. Lee's help as a team with my colleagues for leadership coaching. To take our association (GHASKA) to new heights, we required knowledge and skills to establish effective communication skills and compelling leadership talents. Ms. Lee was quick to recognize and prune the branches of noise from our conversation, allowing us to refocus on crucial and practical matters. Finally, I together with my co-leaders took action in response to our talk, and I am grateful for the opportunity. Her work ethic and determination are remarkable.

Africa Insight is an international civil society organization based in Seoul, established in 2013. I am Steven Heo, the founder, and CEO of the organization. As a result of team coaching journey we have been taking for the past 3 years with Coach Jaung Ah LEE our staffs have gained reflective perspectives of the past, present and the future, we have deepened our understanding and trust for each other within the organization which enabled us to be directed towards co-creation of the organizational vision and purpose and lastly each team member and managers have gained a safe sense of belonging which propels to further growth as leaders.

We first started the team coaching sessions with coach Jaung Ah LEE in October 2017. As I reflect, I was not aware of the true meaning and impact of coaching when we first started. However, as we continued the coaching sessions, I can confidently say coaching has become an essential culture of the team and the organization to cultivate relationship, trust and understanding deeply of many aspects especially on empowering and capacity building.

As a young organization, we are facing many issues and problems which is not easy to deal with. Team coaching enabled us to learn from each other. As a result, we always found a new insight and wisdom to the way forward from each coaching session. Hence, we hugely appreciate and value the co-creation energy, safe space, discoveries we get from team coaching sessions. We at Africa Insight would like to strongly recommend you start a team coaching journey with Ms. Jaung Ah LEE.

I have discovered that personal development is a deliberate process which when you commit yourself to it can be attainable.

Firstly I have realigned that the process of development is about focusing on yourself first before you express your development path to others. I have revisioned to commit myself to daily personal development other waiting for training or someone to motivate me. Secondly I have revisioned to breakdown my goals into smaller daily attainable steps I should work on to achieve the ultimate goal, have innovated in coming up with a weekly plan of activities to achieve my weekly goals.

The whole program gave responsibility to me to come up with areas of development, and also the solution where coming from me and I would commit myself to execute the set of actions I have come up with, with coach assisting me to continuously work on my daily/weekly activities. The process had some challenges on execution as I can say I did not do 100% of what I would have set for myself, and the changes didn't come instantly. However, I completed much of my tasks.

I am continuously using the techniques I have learnt from the coaching sessions and consciously set challenges target for myself. There will be always something to develop on as I progress with life and I will continuously refer to the techniques I have learnt.

I would like to recommend ACBC Coaching session to my fellow Zimbabweans who are also studying here in Korea.

I was given the opportunity to reflect deeply on the things that truly mattered to me without feeling constrained. When I look back at how I was during my first coaching session to how I am now, I truly thank Mrs. Lee for giving me a safe atmosphere to learn and become more aware of myself. Through this self-awareness, I have become more at peace with myself because I now have a wider understanding of who I am and what I am capable of doing. Every experience and knowledge gained from the coaching session has been more than worth it and I can confidently say I'm not that girl who use to let doubts determine her life. Thank you, Mrs. Lee, for this journey.

Prior to joining your coaching session, I had never participated in one before, and even though I had never participated in such a program, I had a skeptic mindset on what coaching sessions were about in general.

However, having experienced your coaching session, I have gained a positive world view of what it is all about. It was very well structured and this helped me appreciate your dedication.

Your competence in navigating my thought processes has till date helped me to understand the importance of priority, how to compromise in a team without feeling cheated or belittled and most importantly, how to multi-task based on my identified strengths.

The coaching sessions have helped me identify and improve on myself both academically and socially in ways I could not have done on my own, and I am very grateful for the opportunity.

Coach Jaung Ah Lee is an amazing coach with a genuine interest in the success of her coachees. Many inflection points throughout the team's tenure could be traced back to specific sessions that the team held.

She always asked insightful questions that enabled the team to reflect and come up with and implement multiple new initiatives by the end of our tenure. The coaching sessions also helped the team to be more honest with each other and improved the team's cohesion.

Before I enrolled in the coaching program, I found myself at a low point in my life. However, by the end of the period, I was once again beaming with confidence.

Driven by a desire for sustained personal growth, the coaching experience was a period of self-discovery for me. Each session provided a platform for me to assess my strengths and weaknesses, opportunities for growth, and threats to my personal development. With the help of my coach, I found practical ways to maximize my strengths and minimize my weaknesses.

My coach was extremely resourceful and offered thoughtful interventions to put me on a path of sustained personal growth.

In summary, my experience was stimulating and thrilling. I strongly recommend the African Coaching Scholarship to any individual who seeks personal growth.

Over the course of 12 weeks, we had talked about various topics which I felt were necessary for my personal development. During the course of each session, there was always something new that I discovered about myself and the filling of the reflection form always gave me the opportunity to re-visualize the conversations and think about the new awareness that was created and how I can develop myself.

Coach's interventions and thoughts were always insightful and resourceful. I was always relaxed during the conversations. I would like to say that one can never expect how questions can make him/her realize things he/she should think about carefully. The person who starts the conversation is not the same person who leaves the conversation.

These are a few things I would like to share from my sessions: Reflection always gives us an idea of how things are and what next the plan entails. It also gives us the chance to note down weakness and strengths. Communication is complex because we are diverse. It is a form that defines who we are as a person but it could also prevent or block us from understanding others. Development does not just come from within, it also comes from outside.

In summary, the time invested in this program was worth-while. To anyone willing to participate in the program, I would say that you need to be a co-creator with the coach in order to have a flow and experience the DRIVE process. I am very grateful to Miss Lee for this opportunity.

I've had the opportunity to experience two forms of coaching (Individual Coaching and the Team Coaching) programs offered by ACBC with Mrs. Jaugh Ah Lee as the Coach.

During all of these periods of self and team discovery journey in the capacity as a student leader and servant, one thing became very clear and sound, and that is the fact that, building a healthy and an effective relationship is key in our respective daily and cooperate lives, and it mostly begins with oneself.

Also the program helped me to become much more conscious of the hidden reality that, there is a natural and a fundamental gap that do exist between persons in the ways and perspectives that each sees and view things. With this re-awaken consciousness, I learnt that, every person will need to make a conscious effort in trying to close that gap for achieving mutual understanding and shared responsibility.

In all, I think the program and its content is a well-thought packaged program, it is very great and it presents an overall opportunity for anyone who will like to take some time off their daily and routine schedules to reflect on their personal self. The time invested during this is period is definitely a worth-while.