The Art of Somatic Coaching: Embodying Skillful Action, Wisdom, and Compassion Author: Richard Strozzi-Heckler | Language: English | ISBN:
B00EMX8328 | Format: EPUB
The Art of Somatic Coaching: Embodying Skillful Action, Wisdom, and Compassion Description
The Art of Somatic Coaching introduces the concepts and principles of coaching with practices that include body awareness, bodywork, and mindfulness for both the coach and the client. Author and expert coach, Richard Strozzi-Heckler, PhD, explains that in order to achieve truly sustainable changes in individuals, teams, and organizations, it is necessary to implement body-oriented somatic practices in order to dissolve habits, behaviors, and interpretations of the world that are no longer relevant. He explains that these ways of being are integrated in the body--at the level of the musculature, organs, and nervous system. By implementing a somatic approach, these patterns can be shifted in order for transformation to occur.
Opening with a discussion of the roots of Somatic Coaching, the book describes the emotional and physical cost of being distanced from our bodies. Originating from the rationalistic idea that the mind and body are separate, this sense of disconnection spurred the emergence of the field of somatics that views the body as not just a physiological entity, but as the center of our lived experience in the world. Out of this philosophy, Somatic Coaching was developed as a way to cultivate the self through the body.
Methods in this book include:
• Somatic awareness--becoming aware of sensations
• Somatic opening--includes bodywork to release held patterns in the body
• Somatic practices--meditation, movement, and being present in everyday life
The social context in which one is raised, the supportive, healing force of the outdoors and nature as well as acknowledgment of the spirit are also woven into the practice. Through these practices, a rhythm of unfolding occurs in what Strozzi-Heckler describes as an Arc of Transformation--moving in stages from conditioned tendencies to a new satisfying and fulfilling way of being that is fully embodied.
Contents: Introduction; Chapter One: A Short Distance but a Big Cost; Chapter Two: Coaching; Chapter Three: Somatics and Somatic Coaching; Chapter Four: The Methodology; Chapter Five: The Rhythm of Action; Chapter Six: The Somatic Arc of Transformation
- File Size: 1650 KB
- Print Length: 193 pages
- Page Numbers Source ISBN: 158394673X
- Publisher: North Atlantic Books (February 11, 2014)
- Sold by: Amazon Digital Services, Inc.
- Language: English
- ASIN: B00EMX8328
- Text-to-Speech: Enabled
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Richard Strozzi's newest book is another shining jewel in the collection of his previous writings. This is a must read for all CEO's, Presidents, CLO's, PARENTS, TEACHERS, COACHES, anyone/everyone who wants to understand AND DO SOMETHING about what's happening to people today all over the world. At the personal level, business level, as well as at the societal and global levels, Richard's book clearly shows us what the inevitable consequences are if we continue to ignore the warning signs, and what we might do to avoid the "cliff". If we turn on television news, we can't avoid hearing about the politician in tirade, the out-of-control teen-ager, the inexplicable mass murderer, and/or "distracted parenting" as parents join their kids in fascination for electronic devices. From symptom to behavior, from cause to effect, from problem to solution, Richard Strozzi provides the journey that we've all taken collectively and have inherited through the ages with each so called "advancement" of human kind. What makes this books so outstanding is that he also provides the "anecdote". Perhaps we might see the behaviors of our out-of control-civilization as a clarion call to lead from the heart, or are we to swing forever like a pendulum in a clock awaiting the explosion of the next bomb, tick tock.
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