Embodiment that inspires…
resilience, creativity and leadership.
How can we be more embodied? Focusing practice!
Being embodied is key to processing stress and growing resilience. When we are in our bodies we can access awesome creativity and the courage to be better leaders. The best way that I know to strengthen access to this inner knowing or intuition is with Focusing practice. Similar to mindfulness practice, we notice what is happening in the body and say hello. But then rather than letting that go, we welcome “it” to tell us what it wants us to know. This beautiful evidence-based practice was discovered by philosopher Eugene Gendlin during research in the 1950s and 60s. We teach Gendlin’s classic six steps of Focusing, that can be learned to access our body-felt knowing. The practice is best done in partnership, which is why most of our offerings are for live group workshops, classes as well as community practice called Changes Groups. Focusing can also be done alone. The beautiful thing about Focusing, in my experience, is that the more you practice, the more intuitive you become!
Upcoming Focusing Courses, Workshops & Changes Group
Learn and practice Focusing with our groups, workshops and courses that each create the safety for change!
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Are you wanting transformation?
Wanting to be embodied? More resilient? To have a safe space for change? Or perhaps you’re needing more creative or sustainable ideas? Or the courage to achieve the ones you’ve already got. I can show you where to look: in your body!
I work with individuals in group settings via courses and workshops, and one-to-one via coaching (please see buttons here). I also work with teams (for more on that, please read on below).
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Embodied creativity tools
Focusing
Gene Gendlin, a philosopher, developed the practice of Experiential Focusing to teach people how to deeply listen to their bodily wisdom. Focusing gives us access to creative ideas that normally come to us while in the shower, exercising or driving. As such, it is a powerful tool to get transformative ideas on demand.
Theory U
Theory U is an awareness-based system change process created by Otto Scharmer from MIT. Pivotal to the process is the use of Social Presencing Theatre, an embodiment technique created by Arawana Hayashi. SPT allows us to map and shift complex systems. I cross them both into Focusing teaching and facilitation.
Facilitation
There are many ways to use deep collaboration to help groups co-create. These create safety for the bodily knowing or intuition of participants to emerge. They include: Dynamic Facilitation, Thinking at the Edge (TAE), Unconferences/Open Space Technology, and 4D Mapping.
The PUPA process
Creates a safe cocoon for transformative ideas:
Pause and sink deeply into your body, to get centered and grounded
Understand from a broader perspective, in a whole-brain and embodied way
Permutation: felt shift in the body, followed by a paradigm shift in the mind
Prepare to take action (planning, positive psychology, prototyping)
Act with courage and authenticity
“Unless change occurs unmistakably in the body, it does not, in my opinion, occur at all.”
—Eugene Gendlin