The Power of Embodied
Transformation
A LIVE Online Coaching training
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Earn 30.5 CCEUs
We cannot think our way towards transformation.
These are demanding times for the human nervous system — socially, technologically, collectively. The ground is shifting beneath us. Our client’s challenges have evolved. And our coaching must respond.
Coaching for insight is no longer enough.
Here’s why…
The pressures of today’s world trigger patterns of reactivity
habits, tendencies, blind spots, and areas of numbness. And every pattern — every place your client is stuck — lives in the very tissues of their body.
Not the mind. The body.
AI changes the game of coaching.
Machines will master logical, procedural, and information-based coaching.
But there are realms they cannot touch. Realms that are uniquely human.
And they, too, live in the body.
Your edge as a coach in an AI-dominated world is
your ability to connect yourself and your client to
wisdom that only lives
within the cells of human beings.
The Power of Embodied Transformation
A LIVE Online Coaching training
Earn 30.5 CCEUs
And it is your humanity that will make you the
extraordinary coach these times require.
Create change that withstands disruption.
Use the body as a gateway into your client’s world, guiding them to the evolution they most long for.
Connect yourself and your clients to wisdom that only lives in the human body. Something AI can never replicate.
This is what your client truly wants.
Not a better understanding of why they’re stuck.
But a way forward.
Even when the ground is shifting.
Meet the faculty for this training
This program brings together the world’s leading somatic coaches and teachers, as well as leading voices in neuroscience, trauma-work, and leadership development. These remarkable practitioners are both experts in embodied change, and possess a palpable ability to transmit the heart of this work to you.
Staci Haines
Somatic Coach and Teacher
Author of The Politics of Trauma
Staci Haines is an international leader and coach in the field of Somatics, and a co-designer of the embodied methodology at Strozzi Institute for Somatics. She is the author of The Politics of Trauma: Somatics, Healing and Social Justice and Healing Sex: A Mind Body Approach to Healing Sexual Trauma. For 30 years, Staci has been using her wisdom of embodied approaches to champion both personal and social transformation in the world.
Dr. Peter Levine has joined our faculty!
Dr. Peter Levine
Creator of Somatic Experiencing®, Author of Healing Trauma
Peter Levine is the creator of Somatic Experiencing®, a groundbreaking, body-based approach to healing trauma rooted in over five decades of research in neuroscience, physiology, and psychology. Somatic Experiencing is taught and practiced worldwide, having reached more than 30,000 practitioners across 42 countries, and is widely regarded as one of the most influential trauma-healing frameworks of our time.
Peter is a globally recognized biophysicist and psychologist whose work integrates neuroscience, physiology, and embodied approaches to trauma healing. He is the Founder and President of the Ergos Institute of Somatic Education and the Founder and Advisor for Somatic Experiencing International, and the author of several influential books on trauma, including Waking the Tiger, In an Unspoken Voice, and Healing Trauma.
This in-depth coach training is taught by world-renowned coaches and teachers, including the founders of somatic coaching.
Each session is live, so you’ll have the opportunity to interact in real time with the esteemed faculty. Of course, everything is recorded and downloadable, so you can watch on your own schedule, and come back to the teaching again and again for deeper learning.
The Program Curriculum and Schedule
The Power of Embodied Transformation is a fully live and online coach training. You can join from anywhere in the world. You’ll find the course schedule below. Use the buttons to expand the modules and see the entire workshop schedule and details.
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with Staci Haines, Erika Lyla, Richard Strozzi-Heckler, and Joel Monk
To begin, Staci, Erika, Richard, and Joel will introduce you to the arc of somatic transformation—the backbone of somatic coaching. Learn how conditioned tendencies might be keeping your clients stuck, and how to facilitate your client’s development with confidence. Plus, watch a coaching demonstration that puts all these skills to use.
Click to see the details- Workshop 1
The Arc of Somatic Transformation
with Staci Haines
Mar 12th10:00-11:30am PDT
18:00-19:30 CET- Learn the arc of somatic transformation—the fundamental backbone of the practice of somatic coaching.
- Participate in initial practices that reveal the embodied shape of your client, allowing you to skilfully lead them toward their goals and vision.
- Develop foundational skills in presence so you can engender trust and credibility with your clients.
- Workshop 2
Body and Commitment
with Staci Haines
Mar 19th10:00-11:30am PDT
18:00-19:30 CET- Explore the power and importance of the questions: What do you care about? What future do you want to create?
- Learn about the journey of transformation itself, and what it means to set out on the path towards change.
- Discover how to invite and mobilize new behaviors in your clients that line up with what they most care about.
- Workshop 3
Conditioned Tendencies
with Erika Lyla
Apr 2nd10:00-11:30am PDT
19:00-20:30 CEST- Learn what a conditioned tendency is, how it functions in your life, and ways to help clients identify them and work with them skillfully.
- Understand how conditioned tendencies express through the body, so you can better understand your client's stuckness and support them in generating alternative responses.
- Identify some of your own conditioned tendencies, so you can understand their benefits and liabilities in your work as a coach.
- Workshop 4
Somatic Opening
with Staci Haines
Apr 9th10:00-11:30am PDT
19:00-20:30 CEST- Discover the process of somatic openings and the stages of disorganization, giving you a powerful map with which to guide your coaching clients.
- Learn to use the Arc of Transformation as both an assessment and somatic visioning tool and for your own personal development, increasing your own effectiveness as a coach.
- Develop your capacity to feel the language and intelligence of the senses within your own body, giving you reliable access to your own wisdom, competence, and intuition.
- Workshop 5
Connection
with Erika Lyla
Apr 16th10:00-11:30am PDT
19:00-20:30 CEST- Learn about the stage of Connection in the Arc of Transformation, allowing you to facilitate your client's development with confidence and skill.
- Discover practices to build the competences of connection, equipping you to increase trust and authenticity with your clients.
- Explore conflict as a generative force that deepens connection, and brings a nourishing dignity and aliveness.
- Workshop 6
Live Demonstration and Q&A
with Richard Strozzi-Heckler and Joel Monk
Apr 30th10:00am-12:00pm PDT
19:00-20:00 CEST- Witness Richard Strozzi-Heckler coaching someone live using the tools you’ve learned, so you can see how this powerful method can transform a real issue in real time.
- Listen as Richard and Joel unpack the session, where Richard will share what he did and why.
- Ask any questions you have about the live session.
- NOTE: This workshop is 2 hours
What You Will Learn in Module 1
- Workshop 1
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with Amanda Blake
In the second module, Amanda Blake will show you how to guide your clients to embody a new way of being through carefully crafted practices. You’ll learn the underlying role of neuroplasticity in creating lasting change, and how to design practices that are meaningful, experiential, and impactful, so your clients can embody and embed their best self.
Click to see the details- Workshop 7
Developing Embodied Practices
with Amanda Blake
May 21st10:00-11:30am PDT
19:00-20:30 CEST- Discover how embodied practice builds a sturdy bridge from old habitual behavior to new desired behavior.
- Learn what to listen for in your client’s experience that will clue you in to the perfect-fit customized practice for them.
- Explore the underlying role of neuroplasticity in creating lasting change, so you can ensure your practices will get results.
- Workshop 8
Embodying Your Best Self
with Amanda Blake
May 27th10:00-11:30am PDT
19:00-20:30 CEST- Help your clients clarify who they most want or need to *become* in order to achieve their goals, and design practices around that.
- Learn how to combine both conceptual and embodied self-awareness for a highly customized and highly leveraged practice.
- Explore how to set up "learning loops" so that embodied practice has maximal benefit.
- NOTE: This workshop is on a Wednesday
- Workshop 9
Making Embodied Practices Stick
with Amanda Blake
Jun 11th10:00-11:30am PDT
19:00-20:30 CEST- Explore how to design practices that are meaningful, experiential, and impactful, ensuring you can be maximally effective in helping your client grow.
- Discover the difference between “embedded” and “extra” practices—and how to embed practices in your client's life for far more powerful results.
- Learn how to structure embodied practice so that it becomes an easy, ongoing, and impactful habit.
What You Will Learn in Module 2
- Workshop 7
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with David Treleaven, Deb Dana, and Anjuli Sherin
In the third module, you’ll learn powerful methods and practices to work with obstacles to embodied transformation from some of the world’s leading voices in resilience-based and trauma-sensitive coaching. David, Deb, and Anjuli will show how you can help your clients feel safe, regulate their nervous systems, and cultivate embodied resilience in the face of stress and trauma.
Click to see the details- Workshop 10
Bridging Embodiment, Trauma, and the Art of Coaching
with David Treleaven
Jul 2nd10:00-11:30am PDT
19:00-20:30 CEST- Learn core principles of trauma-informed coaching that can inform your work and practice.
- Understand how to recognize signs and symptoms of trauma, enabling you to skillfully support your clients through difficult moments.
- Discover embodied practices that help your clients feel safe during coaching sessions.
- Workshop 11
Keeping Clients Safe: Potential Pitfalls of Body-Based Attention in Coaching
with David Treleaven
Jul 9th10:00-11:30am PDT
19:00-20:30 CEST- Discover how embodied awareness can be a double-edged sword for clients, and how you can work with this specifically.
- Learn the ‘Window of Tolerance’ model, enabling you to understand how body-based practice can exceed a client’s capacity.
- Explore best practices for trauma-informed coaching, equipping you with tools to support your clients in deep work.
- Workshop 12
Befriending the Nervous System: A Polyvagal Approach to Resilience and Healing
with Deb Dana
Jul 23rd10:00-12:00pm PDT
19:00-21:00 CEST- Explore a powerful new view of social and emotional health through an understanding of the human nervous system.
- Discover how to map the state of your nervous system (and that of your clients) so that you can increase awareness and create more choice.
- Learn key tools and exercises for autonomic regulation to support safety and connection.
- NOTE: This workshop is 2 hours
- Workshop 13
Stories of Safety and Connection: Helping Clients Anchor in Regulation
with Deb Dana
Jul 30th10:00-12:00pm PDT
19:00-21:00 CEST- Understand the distinct stories that emerge when your nervous system is in different states.
- Explore ways to anchor yourself in a regulated state so that you can create a space of safety and connection with your clients.
- Learn to use micro-moments of regulation to reshape response patterns.
- NOTE: This workshop is 2 hours
- Workshop 14
Joyous Resilience: Cultivating Aliveness to Thrive in Stressful Times
with Anjuli Sherin
Aug 13th10:00-11:30am PDT
19:00-20:30 CEST- Understand how suffering and resilience are inextricably tied to our relationship with our inner dialogue and emotions.
- Explore four key inner forces—self-nurturance, protection, creativity, and soulfulness—and how we cultivate these generative resource states in our daily life.
- Learn ways to reconnect to our own wholeness, aliveness, and joy—attuning to our needs and crafting resilience practices.
What You Will Learn in Module 3
- Workshop 10
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with Staci Haines and Arawana Hayashi
In the final module, Staci and Arawana will show you how to work skillfully with the broader social contexts that shape your clients’ conditioning. You’ll learn why individual and collective transformation are interdependent, how historical and collective patterns become embodied, and how to navigate all of this in your coaching and leadership.
Click to see the details- Workshop 15
The Art of Making a True Move: Gestures from Space
with Arawana Hayashi
Sept 3rd10:00-12:00pm PDT
19:00-21:00 CEST- Learn practices for yourself and your clients that invite groundedness in a synchronized body and mind.
- Explore how awareness of our social body and “social field” naturally arise when we drop into this state of deep embodied presence.
- Discover how these practices bring fresh perceptions, genuine communication, and confident engagement with our world in coaching and leadership.
- NOTE: This workshop is 2 hours
- Workshop 16
Sites of Shaping: From the Individual to the Collective
with Staci Haines
Sept 10th10:00-11:30am PDT
19:00-20:30 CEST- Learn a model for understanding how we are shaped by, and embody, both our personal and collective experiences.
- Discover processes by which to recognize and work with the collective shaping (from families, communities, society, the economy, and more) that affect your clients as well as your own leadership.
- Embody the ability to shift from “I”, to “you”, to “we”, and back again, inviting your clients to make even more impactful changes for themselves, their leadership, their organizations, and in the world.
- Workshop 17
Mutual Dignity, Complexity, and Contradictions
with Staci Haines
Oct 1st10:00-11:30am PDT
19:00-20:30 CEST- Understand and work with contradictions and complexity from a somatic vantage point, so you can mature your leadership and increase the range of people with whom you can develop trust.
- Explore the underlying needs involved in polarization, and learn to skillfully work with increasing options, connection, and choices.
- Discover embodied capacities for mutual connection and dignity, and how this can nourish personal and collective resilience.
- Workshop 18
Boundlessness and Boundedness: the Pulse of Being Human
with Staci Haines
Oct 8th10:00-11:30am PDT
19:00-20:30 CEST- Discover the embodied states of boundedness and boundlessness and what each serves.
- Learn to allow and invite, and guide others to welcome, the change between contraction and expansion, giving each its due.
- Grow your capacity as a coach and leader to somatically ally with a wide range of people along this expansion and contraction.
What You Will Learn in Module 4
- Workshop 15
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with Dr. Peter Levine
The course now includes a workshop with Dr. Peter Levine, the creator of a groundbreaking, body-based approach to healing trauma called Somatic Experiencing®. This breakthrough technique is taught and practiced worldwide, and has reached more than 30,000 practitioners across 42 countries. It is widely regarded as one of the most influential trauma-healing frameworks of our time.
Click to see the details- Workshop 19
Embodied Coaching in Times of Disruption
with Dr. Peter Levine
Oct. 15th10:00-11:30am US Pacific
7-8:30 PM Central European- Discover why the body holds the key to supporting clients in today’s disruptive world, as they navigate uncertainty, fear, and polarization
- Learn how to meet the body with compassion, and safely introduce somatic techniques with clients who are increasingly disembodied in these times
- Gain practical tools to connect with embodied intelligence in coaching and support clients in building wisdom, connection, and resilience
- Workshop 19
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with Ellen Waenink
During each module, Ellen will lead you into a powerful practice space to help you deepen and grow as a coach. These Mastery Sessions take full advantage of Zoom breakouts where you’ll practice coaching and being coached, enabling you to integrate and embody what you’ve been learning.
Click to see the details- Mastery Session 1
with Ellen Waenink
May 7th10:00-11:30am PDT
19:00-20:30 CEST - Mastery Session 2
with Ellen Waenink
Jun 25th10:00-11:30am PDT
19:00-20:30 CEST - Mastery Session 3
with Ellen Waenink
Aug 2710:00-11:30am PDT
19:00-20:30 CEST - Mastery Session 4
with Ellen Waenink
Oct 2210:00-11:30am PDT
19:00-20:30 CEST
- Mastery Session 1
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After each live workshop from 11:30am-12pm US Pacific / 20:30-21:00 Central European Time
Your own development is at the heart of your coaching capacity, so we’ve added brand new Somatic Developmental Inquiry Sessions after every workshop. You’ll learn to apply the powerful work of Somatic Coaching to your own life, deepening your evolution and expanding your ability to serve your clients.
Why Embodied Coaching, and Why Now?
Why Embodied Coaching?
Embodied coaching delivers on one of the most profound discoveries of neuroscience…
Our intelligence doesn’t reside exclusively in the mind. Much of the deep wisdom we need to evoke transformation lives in the body.
Our cells hold our histories, habits, and tendencies. They also house our deepest longings, greatest creativity, and the answers to some of our most potent questions.
And yet, we’ve been trained away from accessing the wisdom of the body.
Embodied coaching reconnects you to this innate intelligence, so you can create lasting change with your clients.
Why Now?
The rise of AI brings up deeply important questions…
What makes us uniquely human?
In our world of faster, better, more… Is there a place where humans still have an edge?
But meeting the magnificence, mystery, and complexity of a human being in a complex world — responding from your deepest cares and sense of becoming — that requires something AI can never replicate… embodied intelligence.
That is what makes us human. And it is your humanity that will make you the extraordinary coach these times require.
What graduates say about our programs
Embodiment is a missing piece in creating lasting change. It’s how ideas of change become actual change. How insights become lived experience. And how old, stubborn patterns transform into new, nourishing ways of being.
This training is a deep dive into a realm of untapped wisdom. One that gives you access to a level of transformation that is otherwise inaccessible.
And it’s not just about your clients. It’s also about you… This work will bring you into a new and profound relationship with yourself — connecting you to your own inherent wholeness.
You’ll learn from a world-class faculty, as they weave together ancient wisdom with the latest findings in neuroscience and trauma research. There’s no other online training that can teach you the practice of somatic coaching with such depth and rigor, led by the leaders in the field.
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