The Womb of Becoming: Rethinking Coaching through Fluidity, Presence, and the Space Between
Why this work is in the frame
A frame that forgets how it found something cannot be audited. These are the routes that admitted this work.
Bibliographic record
Abstract
This article reimagines coaching as a fluid, presence-based practice and proposes an original conceptual framework, the “Womb of Becoming,” a metaphor for the liminal space between awareness and transformation. Drawing on philosophical traditions, narrative inquiry, and lived coaching experience, it challenges entrenched assumptions of neutrality, constant goal orientation, and discomfort avoidance. Informed by Victor Turner’s liminality and Jungian psychology, it invites coaches to embrace ambiguity as a vital phase of growth. Through four phases – Awakening, Suspension, Reconstitution, and Integration – it positions coaching as a sacred process of becoming beyond performance-driven change.
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Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.016 | 0.004 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.003 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.003 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it