An Experiential Learning Journey Designed for Coaches

Whether you have received formal training and identify professionally as a coach or not, this module lays the Foundations upon which we will build your competency as a Body-Oriented Coach. Modern psychology has focused primarily on verbal communication and the cognitive, reflective mind. Conventional helping conversations often follow suit and much of the work revolves around mental meaning making and reframing. This is important work as we are as much our thinking as we are our sensations and feeling states. As such we need a model for working at all levels if we are to transition into more embodied spaces with skill.

We live in a culture that is largely disembodied, so this Module can be experienced as awakening the senses or coming home to the body. We’ll dip into biology, anatomy and interpersonal neurobiology to develop a foundational understanding of the bodymind. For many of us, actually being fully present to ourselves can feel like travelling into outer-space, or the great unknown. Like “somanauts” you will explore the worlds that exist inside of your body and expand your conscious awareness. Through the use of subtle and non-intrusive methods you will learn how to help your clients come into contact with the body as sensed in the present moment. You will discover the wisdom of your own felt sense and learn the Focusing process in order to support your clients to discover theirs.

​Safety is a prerequisite for all helping conversations, especially when doing the sensitive work of somatic coaching. How do we ensure that both coach and client are able to work at somatic depth, without feeling out of their depth? This Module provides answers to that question. From initial conditions, to the resourcing potential of intentional play we will be equipping ourselves with the tools to be responsive and responsible. If a coach is dysregulated we could be doing our clients more harm than good. With a well-regulated nervous system, you could very well sit with a client for an hour in silence and be of powerful service to them. If our autonomic state shapes experience, then our ability to navigate the nervous system is essential.

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​This Module explores how to use your whole self as a tool to adjust to your client and come into resonance with them. Helping the client tune into their own somatic experience and exploring your capacity to tune into what they are feeling too. This is about your relationship with your clients, their relationship with their bodymind experience, your relationship with your own, and how these all inter-relate. The Attune & Resonate module will help you develop the skills to notice often overlooked details in your client’s experience, as well as your own, that serve to support the emergence of your client’s potential.​

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As clients take what they are learning and discovering within the session into the wider ecology of their lives, a natural shift occurs in the coaching. What if we could explore options, make plans, and form strategise from a more embodied place? In this Module we’ll utilise our clients capacity for accessing embodied ways of knowing to identify an inspired course of action or resolve complex issues that call for innovative solutions. We’ll also equip coaches with the awareness and skillset needed to work with intentional self-contact in a way that is supportive and in service of their clients.

In this module you will tap into the aliveness of the body and learn how to help clients take conscious action. Through movement, posture, shape and form you will expand the embodying dimensions of your work together. As coach you will help clients practise, adopt, and integrate positive new experiences, beliefs, and choices into their current everyday lives and embody these changes. What’s more, you will support your clients to install positive states as enduring traits through the deliberate internalisation of positive experiences in implicit memory.