“Wildness is a form of sophistication, because it carries within it true knowledge of our place in the world.” —Martin Shaw There is a particular kind of knowing that doesn’t arrive through analysis. It arrives when you stop. When the meeting ends, the screen goes dark, and you step outside to find the sky doing something unreasonable with light. …
Embodiment in Coaching: What 4E Cognitive Science Reveals About How Change Really Happens Rod Francis | InterActualizer My personal interest in embodiment certainly didn’t begin with the theory. It began with the body itself—my own—in a dance studio, years before I ever heard the word coaching in the way we use it today. As a professional dancer, choreographer and physical …
Many of the ancient cultures practiced careful rituals of approach. An encounter of depth and spirit was preceded by careful preparation. When we approach with reverence, great things decide to approach us.” —John O’Donohue In a world that often feels way too fragmented and fast-paced, rituals offer us a sense of grounding, safety and place, but perhaps even more important …
“A felt sense is the body’s physical sense of a problem, or of some concern or situation. It is a physical sense of meaning.” —Eugene Gendlin Most coaching industry frameworks are based on the principle that change and insight are the result of the coach’s ability to ask really good questions. Powerful questions. Sure there’s other tools, skills, interventions, assessments …
What is embodiment as a coach let alone embodiment made simple? “Freedom does not mean escape from the world; it means transformation of our whole way of being, our mode of embodiment, within the lived worlditself” —Varela, Rosch & Thompson, The Embodied Mind Have you ever wanted to understand more about embodiment? Or how to become more embodied? Perhaps you’d …
“There is no logical way to the discovery of these elemental laws. There is only the way of intuition, which is helped by a feeling for the order lying behind the appearance. “ —Albert Einstein, Where is Science Going, Introduction (1932) In 2011 the now late Nobel laureate, Daniel Kahneman published Thinking Fast & Slow, which distilled his vast …
“Embodiment is a way to heal the mind-body divide we experience within ourselves and, more systemically, within Western cultures. To do so we need to understand the self as a body. Our body and our personhood are so intimately connected that they can never be separated. We are not just a mind, or brain, carried around by a meat-puppet of …
We must accept our multiplicity, the fact that we can show up quite differently in our athletic, intellectual, sexual, spiritual or many other states. A heterogeneous collection of states is completely normal in us humans. The key to well-being is collaboration across states, not some rigidly homogeneous unity. The notion that we can have a single, totally consistent way of …