Introducing Body Oriented Coaching

 A Coaching Experience aims to meet you where you’re at in the here and now, in order to facilitate and enable you to move towards the future in a way that feels “uniquely” right for you, within the circumstances you are living with and in. A session focuses on providing a safe, non judgmental, open- minded and compassionate space to explore an aspect of your life you want to enquire about.

A coaching session may be useful for:-

  • Exploring and finding ‘you shaped’ ways to work through difficulties and navigate transitions in your life.

  • Digesting and deepening your understanding of the different aspects of complex feelings and situations.

  • Identifying and growing ideas and resources to help you care for yourself, or relate to other people or communities.

  • Developing self and body awareness to enable you to make choices from an informed place of understanding.

  • Growing self confidence to connect with ways to work authentically and creatively

  • Gaining more clarity about present or new ideas for professional and personal growth

  • Exploring work opportunities from a place of resource and centre

  • Reconnecting with your sense of centre and self and cultivating what you love or what makes you feel good.

  • Cultivating self compassion and self confidence

  • Finding a way to trust your experience and find moments of care when times are hard

  • Connecting with a resourced space in yourself that fosters and harnesses understanding, authenticity calm confidence and creativity

  • Identifying next steps that feel uniquely paced and achievable

With coaching the idea is that you’re the expert on your life - you have the answers to what’s troubling you; that your experience is already richly layered with clues and seeds on how to help. The coach aims to provide a space to listen and watch out for these clues, enabling you to listen and hear yourself in a different way. It’s a way of you finding your own sense of clarity and wisdom to enable you to make choices and decisions that fit well with your unique present experience and create realistic and ‘you’ sized aspirations. It takes you away from making decision on what you ‘ think’ you ‘should’ be doing and feeling into what your present experience is telling you and leading you towards.

So what is Body Oriented Coaching?

In a Body Oriented Coaching session we aim to work with the intelligence of your whole self, not just your mind. We invite the body’s experience into the conversation and give special focus to your body, it’s wisdom and its experience in the world.

The mind and body work ‘together in unison’ to interpret and respond to internal and external experiences in the world and in real time. The body is therefore a vast, often untapped store of valuable sensory information and potential insights which can give us clues on how we feel about an experience and offer our mind very clear intuitive ideas on how to navigate a situation that you maybe bringing to a coaching session.

This coaching modality is rooted not only in ancient holistic traditions such as Buddhism and Taoism but is also underpinned by the latest scientific findings. It is evidence based, research led and trauma informed. The course is accredited by the ICF (International Coaching Federation).

So what does a session look like?

We start with defining and getting really clear about what it is you would like to explore in the time we have together. We then allow time to be led by your body and mind’s experience of the enquiry you are bringing. Time is then set aside at the end of the session to clarify where we have journeyed to and to ascertain what you are taking with you from your exploration and what the session can offer you in ‘this moment’ and also in the reality of your everyday life, defining any steps you might like to take with the insights you have gained.

A temporary offer of Treatment by donation

***Whilst I am training, I am making the following offer for those willing to journey with me:

  • One hour practice sessions, either as a one off or as part of a series of 3 or 6, to enable me to practice the skills I am learning in order to certify as a Body Oriented Coach with the Somatic School and ICF .

*** At present and until I am qualified I will not charge a set fee, but ask instead for a monetary donation that feels affordable to you. Alternatively, please do get in touch if you are interested in coming for a session but cannot afford this or would find it difficult to afford a block of sessions. ***

In exchange I aim to offer my full listening presence and a kind, compassionate, spacious and safe environment to enable you to come and be as you need.

Please get in touch if you are interested, or pass my details on to anyone you feel may benefit from this. My preference is to see people in person if possible, but zoom is an option if not.