COACHES RISING & THE STROZZI INSTITUTE PRESENT
April 22 – August 13, 2020
LIVE ONLINE COACH TRAININGThe Power of
Embodied Transformation
Create lasting change with your coaching clients.
Learn to Wield the Power of Embodied Change
Most approaches to change don’t stick.
They seem powerful. They create insights that open things up. They give us exciting new ideas. They change our perspectives on things. They promise much.
And then sooner or later, the impact fades and we find ourselves once again coming up against the same old problems, with the same old outcomes.
Change is hard to sustain.
Unless you know how to change more than someone’s mind.
Transformation—the deep change every coach seeks for their clients—can only happen when we work somatically and holistically.
Not just the mind. Or just the body. Or just achieving goals. Or just processing emotions. But working with the WHOLE person.
Embodied coaching is a process that allows you to connect with the entirety of your client — their thoughts, feelings, actions, spirit, and body — and in so doing, to create lasting change.
This innovative somatic coaching approach was originally developed by pioneer Richard Strozzi-Heckler during decades of practice and exploration.
During this training, you’ll learn directly from Richard, alongside contemporary coaches who have integrated this powerful approach with new discoveries in neuroscience, trauma-work, and leadership development.
When you learn to coach somatically you’ll be able to…
- Help your clients feel whole and centered, connecting them to their own intrinsic power and passion.
- Recognize conditioned patterns in your clients as they arise, so that you can help them break stubborn and unhelpful habits
- Embed your client’s changes holistically and sustainably, giving them a whole new way of being
This is what your client truly wants.
Not superficial conversations or more information, but a coach who can truly access the transformational potential that is contained within them.
This is the Power of Embodied Transformation.
19 Live Video Workshops
Earn 28.5 CCEUs
This training is officially accredited by the ICF. Attending will grant you 28.5 CCEU’s (22.5 of which are for Core Competencies).
Integration Workbooks and Transcripts
7 Bonus Recordings
Fully Downloadable
Experiential Practices
Meet the faculty for this training.
This program brings together the world’s leading somatic coaches and teachers, as well as the leading voices in trauma, stress and resilience. These remarkable practitioners are not only experts in embodied change, but possess a palpable ability to transmit the heart of this work to you.
Richard is often considered the father of somatic coaching, work he’s been advancing for over 40 years. He’s worked with Fortune 500 companies and NATO, and has even featured on the cover of the Wall Street Journal.
Mandy is a leadership coach who works with socially conscious entrepreneurs using a holistic, body-oriented approach. She holds a degree in Human Biology from Stanford University and has taught leadership programs for the likes of Nike and NASA.
Peter is the developer of Somatic Experiencing and founder of the Foundation for Human Enrichment. He teaches around the world and is the best-selling author of Waking the Tiger : Healing Trauma : The Innate Capacity to Transform Overwhelming Experiences.
David is a coach, writer and trauma professional whose work focuses on the intersection of mindfulness, trauma, and social justice. He is the author of Trauma-Sensitive Mindfulnes.
Staci is an expert in the field of Somatics, specializing in social leadership. Staci has worked extensively with organizational leaders, including corporate executives, non-profits, and social entrepreneurs. She is a senior teacher at Strozzi Institute and founder of Generative Somatics.
Stephen is Distinguished University Scientist at Indiana University where he is the founding director of the Traumatic Stress Research Consortium. He pioneered Polyvagal Theory, a theory that is leading to innovative treatments all over the world.
Bessel is a clinician, researcher, and teacher best known for his work with posttraumatic stress, and his best-selling book The Body Keeps the Score. He founded The Trauma Center, a nonprofit organization in Massachusetts.
Alta is a somatic coach, bodyworker and a poet. A former teacher, radio news and music producer, and grantmaker, she teaches embodied leadership and trauma healing with Strozzi Institute and Generative Somatics
Nathaniel is a therapist, writer and educator whose work focuses on embodiment as a path for individual and social transformation. He has spent the last decade working at the intersections of trauma, mental health, social justice and the body.
Liz is an award winning author and a professor at Georgetown University who teaches about international security. She is the creator of Mindfulness-Based Mind Fitness Training—taught to thousands in civilian and military high-stress environments.
Rhonda is a Professor of Law at the University of San Francisco, and an internationally recognized thought leader working to integrate mindfulness into Higher Education, Law, and to reduce implicit bias in society.
Learn to Embody the Power of Somatic Coaching
The Power of Embodied Transformation is an 16-week online coach training. It’s designed to equip you with the most advanced somatic coaching skills and tools to effect deep and sustainable change with your clients.
The world class coaching faculty will teach you how to…
- Use the body as a gateway into your client’s world, helping you take your coaching conversations to a new level of depth.
- Attune with your client in-the-moment, enabling you to identify transformational openings.
- Identify signs of stress and trauma, so you can help your clients feel safe and resilient.
- Design embodied practices for your clients, allowing them to embed the changes they make sustainably.
But the change is not simply about the clients you work with, it’s about you.
This work will bring you into a new and profound relationship with yourself – your own body and being. And as you learn to feel and navigate this wholeness, so you will be able to guide your clients through the same transformational territory.
The considerable body of work that this training is based upon integrates and weaves together deep 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 founders of the field.
A live and interactive
experience
We’ve Created an Integrated Learning Journey for You
This training is not a series of unconnected workshops. You will be guided through an integrated arc that builds on itself, teaching you layer by layer, the essential practice of embodied coaching.
And this year we have a brand new module that will teach you how to work with stress and trauma with your coaching clients—helping them build resilience and feel safe in the change work you conduct with them.
MODULE 1
The Arc of Somatic Transformation
with Richard Strozzi-Heckler & Staci Haines
In the first part of the program, Richard and Staci will introduce you to the whole arc of somatic transformation, and show you how to expand your client’s somatic awareness, uncover powerful commitments, and work skillfully with their conditioned tendencies.
MODULE 2
Creating Somatic Opening
with Nathaniel Shara & Alta Starr
In the second part of the program, Nathan and Alta will support you in cultivating resilience and artfully navigating the potent terrain of somatic opening with your clients – where old habits and tendencies are losing their grip, but a new way of being is not yet fully formed.
MODULE 3
Embodying New Ways of Being
with Amanda Blake & Staci Haines
In the third module, with Amanda and Staci will zoom in on the final phase of the somatic cycle, that of embodying a new way of being through carefully crafted practices. You will also learn how to use the somatic arc as a powerful assessment tool with your clients.
MODULE 4
Working With Stress, Trauma, and Resilience
with David Treleaven, Elizabeth Stanley, Stephen Porges, Rhonda V. Magee, Bessel van der Kolk, Peter Levine & Amanda Blake
In the final and brand new module, an all-star cast of trauma and mindfulness experts will take you on a deep journey into the ways the body holds stress and trauma. You’ll learn how to recognize signs of these conditions in your clients, as well as tools to help them regulate, feel safer in their bodies, and make effective choices about their longer term care. Finally, David and Amanda will run a special workshop to help you integrate the key insights, practices and tools from the program, so you feel excited and confident in the application of everything you’ve learned.
What You Will Learn During the Training
MODULE 1
The Art of Somatic Coaching & the Power of Embodied Transformation
WORKSHOP 1
The Art of Somatic Coaching & the Power of Embodied Transformation
with Richard Strozzi-Heckler
6:00-7:30 PM Central European
- 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 skillfully lead them toward their goals and vision.
- Develop foundational skills in presence so you can engender trust and credibility with your clients.
Somatic Literacy: Facilitating Somatic Awareness
WORKSHOP 2
Somatic Literacy: Facilitating Somatic Awareness
with Staci Haines
6:00-7:30 PM Central European
- Learn basic interventions and distinctions that support somatic literacy, enabling you to teach your clients how to recognize their embodied experience. .
- Understand the difference between top-down versus bottom-up processing in coaching, giving you a deeper appreciation of how transformation occurs.
- Explore case studies, contemporary neuroscience research and proven interventions, to broaden your understanding of somatic change.
Commitments: Setting our True North with Clients
WORKSHOP 3
Commitments: Setting our True North with Clients
with Richard Strozzi-Heckler
6:00-7:30 PM Central European
- Learn how to help people design powerful commitments that enable them to achieve what most matters to them.
- Discover how to create strong galvanizing commitments to ensure your coaching work stays on track.
- Understand the key aspects of commitments, so you can help your clients work effectively outside sessions.
Conditioned Tendency: Understanding How Clients Get Stuck
WORKSHOP 4
Conditioned Tendency: Understanding How Clients Get Stuck
with Richard Strozzi-Heckler
6:00-7:30 PM Central European
- Learn what a “Conditioned Tendency” (CT) is, how it functions in your life, and ways to help clients identify them and work with them skillfully.
- Understand the relationship between different parts of the brain and Conditioned Tendencies, do you can better understand the nature of your client’s stuckness.
- Identify your own CT, so you can understand its benefits and liabilities in your work as a coach.
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MODULE 2
Sites of Shaping: Integrating a Clients’ Social Context into Coaching
WORKSHOP 5
Sites of Shaping: Integrating a Clients’ Social Context into Coaching
with Nathaniel Shara
6:00-7:30 PM Central European
- Understand your clients in the broader social contexts that “shape” them, allowing you to work across different cultures, genders and other social group memberships.
- Increase your capacity to empathize and work with a wider range of clients, increasing your capacity to somatically build trust.
- Widen the range of moves you have access to when clients are “stuck” in recurring patterns or moods, entrenched relational dynamics, and critical self-talk.
Resilience
WORKSHOP 6
Resilience
with Nathaniel Shara
6:00-7:30 PM Central European
- Develop an understanding of the centrality of resilience in the transformation, giving you access to the “aliveness” that fuels the process.
- Learn some basic practices for accessing, cultivating and sharing resilience, equipping you to help your clients become more resilient.
- Begin exploring resilience in relationship to habitual reactions and conditioned tendencies, the tension that is navigated by an expansive openness in our bodies and minds.
Somatic Opening
WORKSHOP 7
Somatic Opening
with Alta Starr
6:00-7:30 PM Central European
- 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 your own wisdom, competence, and intuition.
Connection: Resource and Outcome on the Arc of Transformation
WORKSHOP 8
Connection: Resource and Outcome on the Arc of Transformation
with Alta Starr
6:00-7:30 PM Central European
- Learn about the stage of “Connection” in the Arc of Transformation, allowing you to facilitate your clients’ 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 generative force that deepens connection, and bring a nourishing dignity and aliveness.
MODULE 3
Developing Embodiment
WORKSHOP 9
Developing Embodiment
with Mandy Blake
6:00-7:30 PM Central European
- Explore how awareness creates choice, but only practice can develop capacity, ensuring you help your clients create sustainable change.
- Introduce you to the six elements of neuroplasticity, enabling you to understand how each plays a vital role in your client’s development.
- Show you how embodied practice builds a bridge from old habitual behavior to new desired behavior, equipping you to help your clients make change stick.
Designing & Deepening Practice
WORKSHOP 10
Designing & Deepening Practice
with Mandy Blake
6:00-7:30 PM Central European
- Show you how to discover the physical aspects of any behavioral quality, enabling you to create relevant practices for your clients.
- Help you design practices that are meaningful, experiential, and impactful, ensuring your coaching is maximally effective.
- Teach you how to recognize subtle clues in your clients that will lead you to discover new and innovative embodied practices.
Using the Arc of Transformation as an Assessment Tool
WORKSHOP 11
Using the Arc of Transformation as an Assessment Tool
with Staci Haines
6:00-7:30 PM Central European
- Understand how “somatic shape” is more than physical patterning, it is our beliefs, actions and worldview.
- Explore the “Arc of Transformation” as an assessment tool, enabling you to better see your client’s shape and support them in their own change process.
- Learn how the “Arc of Transformation” is sequential but not linear, equipping you to skilfully guide your clients through embodied transformation.
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MODULE 4
Bridging Embodiment, Trauma, and the Art of Coaching
WORKSHOP 12
Bridging Embodiment, Trauma, and the Art of Coaching
with David Treleaven
6:00-7:30 PM Central European
- 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 client through difficult moments.
- Discover embodied practices that help your client feel safe during coaching sessions.
Keeping Clients Safe: Potential Pitfalls of Body-Based Attention in Coaching
WORKSHOP 13
Keeping Clients Safe: Potential Pitfalls of Body-Based Attention in Coaching
with David Treleaven
6:00-7:30 PM Central European
- 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.
Communicating Effectively with Your Client’s Thinking & Survival Brains
WORKSHOP 14
Communicating Effectively with Your Client’s Thinking & Survival Brains
with Elizabeth Stanley
6:00-7:30 PM Central European
- Explore how the thinking brain and survival brain are affected by stress and trauma, enabling you to help your clients navigate their own states.
- Learn how to communicate effectively with your clients’ thinking brains and survival brains, so you can help them regulate states of stress and trauma.
- Discover how to help your client retrain their thinking and survival brains—shifting from being adversaries to becoming allies.
Polyvagal Theory in Coaching
WORKSHOP 15
Polyvagal Theory in Coaching
Q & A with Stephen Porges, hosted by David Treleaven
6:00-7:30 PM Central European
- Explore the implications of the polyvagal theory on trauma-sensitive coaching—and how you can utilize this approach in your client work.
- Learn the principles of Neurocepting safety— how you can help clients feel truly safe during coaching.
- Explore the implications of corona virus and working online so you can utilize best practices in these challenging times.
Trauma-Sensitive Coaching for Inclusivity and Belonging
WORKSHOP 16
Trauma-Sensitive Coaching for Inclusivity and Belonging
With Rhonda V. Magee
6:00-7:30 PM Central European
- Explore the social psychology of unconscious bias and its association with trauma, so you can recognize signs of it in your clients
- Cultivate body-based practices for working with social-identity-based bias and related trauma, so you can support your clients skillfully.
- Learn how to mindfulness to support embodied coaching practices when working with identity and bias based trauma.
The Body Keeps the Score
WORKSHOP 17
The Body Keeps the Score
Q & A with Bessel van der Kolk, hosted by Elizabeth Stanley
6:00-7:30 PM Central European
- Discuss how the coronavirus pandemic is leading to new forms of stress and trauma around the world
- Explore how to discern when you can help your clients vs when they need clinical or therapeutic support
- Synthesize and integrate the many themes raised in the trauma-sensitive coaching module
Trauma & Somatic Experiencing
WORKSHOP 18
Trauma & Somatic Experiencing
With Peter Levine
6:00-7:30 PM Central European
- Understand how the healing of trauma is a natural process that can be accessed through an inner awareness of the body.
- Learn how to listen to the voice of your body by attuning to sensations, enabling you and your clients to tap into a deeper biological knowing.
- Explore how the same energy that underlies traumatic symptoms can transform the trauma once released and invite new levels of well-being, wisdom and mastery.
Integration Workshop
WORKSHOP 19
Integration Workshop
With David Treleaven & Amanda Blake
6:00-7:30 PM Central European
In this integration and application workshop, David and Amanda will support you in integrating the key insights, practices and tools from the program, so you feel excited and confident in the application of everything you’ve learned.
And You’ll Get These Bonus Recordings.
To enable you to go even deeper into embodied coaching, we’re including the following workshop recordings from previous versions of the training.
For each one you will receive the full workshop recording, transcript and any relevant handouts.
Growing Resilience through the Cultivation of Inner Strengths
- Explore the two necessary stages of lasting brain change, and why many therapists, coaches, and others forget the second one.
- Learn how to increase the installation of beneficial experiences in the brain, so as to accelerate personal growth.
- Understand our three basic needs and learn how to match vital mental resources to each one.
Coaching from the Outside In
- Understand the distinction between what personality and center, so as to see the ways we seek approval and security.
- Learn how to center yourself in coaching so you can tap greater creativity, confidence and compassion.
- Practice how to move fluidly between your personality and center so as to free yourself up to explore new possibilities.
Seeing Our Way to New Commitments
- Explore how the declaration of a powerful commitment initiates the process of embodied transformation.
- Discover how to use Doug’s framework of Seeing, Being and Doing to accelerate yours and your client’s development.
- Learn pragmatic coaching questions that identify powerful commitments for your clients.
Seeing Ourselves
- Learn how to identify, observe, and experience the specific habits triggered by commitment.
- Practice tracking how habits are continuously revealed through body, sensation, language, and behaviour.
- Explore five distinct channels of awareness and how to use them to bring rigor to the process of witnessing our habits.
Being for Resilience
- Learn how to identify, observe, and experience the specific habits triggered by commitment.
- Practice tracking how habits are continuously revealed through body, sensation, language, and behaviour.
- Explore five distinct channels of awareness and how to use them to bring rigor to the process of witnessing our habits.
Doing for an Intended Future
- Learn how to leverage the choice point that exists between urge and action.
- Clarify how to help your clients choose actions that create the conditions for an intended future.
- Learn how to support your clients in identifying and developing the specific competencies needed to deliver on their commitment.
Transforming with Mind-Body-As-One
- Learn a powerful framework for managing energy that builds resilience and agility and is readily shared with clients.
- Gain concrete practices to shift energetic state in oneself or one’s client to move beyond constrictions and support transformation.
- Learn exercises to cultivate centeredness and move beyond fear and a false sense of separation.
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