Today, I received an email from the ICF that I was awarded my Associate Certified Coach (ACC) credential! This post chronicles my path to the ICF ACC credential, a crucial part of coach journey. Getting this certification will open up the doors to many new opportunities as the most recognized coaching certification out there. As[…]
Following on some remarks I made in my somatic coaching post regarding the expansion of my repertoire of potential solutions for my clients, I had been thinking about expanding the notion of healing and then happened on this chart from Dietrich Klinghardt’s site, on the 5 Levels of Healing: It summed up perfectly the path[…]
Previously, I had mentioned taking a Somatic Coaching course from my long time mentor coach, Tijen Genco. It just ended and I thought I’d post a review of it, as it was excellent and exposed me to a ton of modalities and possibilities. Somatic coaching moves the center of learning from the head into the body,[…]
This is an image of a piece of Rocktape on a chest scar. A few weeks back, I saw Jackie Wu for a session. My left lateralis was really bugging me, after having it gotten super fired up after attending Animal Flow Level 1. We figured out that my chest scar, a scar that has[…]
In my recent past, I haven’t been one to meditate much. I did try it on occasion, but didn’t go for long bouts of meditation, or try unique focuses or guidance. But lately, I’ve been wondering more about it and doing it with my newfound partner, sound. I just started a somatic coaching course held[…]
This post is a bit late in coming. I meant to write it earlier but when the virus crisis hit all things went by the wayside. Last year I had signed up for an Animal Flow Level 1 workshop. I ended up postponing it but then finally decided to take it this year in February[…]
We live in uncertain and extraordinary times as our society deals with a pandemic in our midst. The fear and stress accompanying this crisis can drive your eating patterns off kilter. Some of you may be eating (or even not eating) to alleviate negative feelings. Are one or more of these happening to you: Overeating[…]
During this time of COVID-19 crisis, we are all “sheltering in place” and our lives are upended in many ways. There is a lot of fear and anxiety over many things in this world, and sometimes we can get frozen in our tracks and unable to do anything. Anxiety is caused by a feeling of[…]
Image from Flickr. Heard today in my Laser Focused Coaching class – Watch for tension during the conversation Often when we have a coaching conversation, we may start to feel tension within ourselves. In the beginning, we may feel this and then retreat in fear, and it affects our ability to be present during the[…]
Heard in my Laser Focused Coaching class – Saying what’s going on in your mind This refers to when a client is talking, and as they talk usually you are processing too and are coming up with intuitively what is going on here and what needs to be addressed/corrected. What usually happens is you: Ignore[…]