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The Art of Somatic Coaching: Embodying Skillful Action, Wisdom, and Compassion

The Art of Somatic Coaching: Embodying Skillful Action, Wisdom, and Compassion

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Health GeneralGeneral Alternative Health

Publisher Price: $19.95

ISBN10: 158394673X
ISBN13: 9781583946732
Publisher: North Atlantic Books
Published: Feb 11 2014
Pages: 192
Weight: 0.60
Height: 0.70 Width: 5.90 Depth: 8.90
Language: English

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.

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