I caught a fascinating exchange online the other day. A research psychologist I’m connected with had published a fairly pointed critique of neuroscience, arguing that while it’s become quite a dominant framework for explaining human behavior and well-being, it’s ultimately guilty of over claiming territory it really shouldn’t be. A neuroscientist colleague of his quickly fired back, and what …
Embodiment in Coaching: What 4E Cognitive Science Reveals About How Change Really Happens
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 …
Paper: Rites of Passage in Coaching
Every positive change — every jump to a higher level of energy and awareness — involves a rite of passage. Each time to ascend to a higher rung on the ladder of personal evolution, we must go through a period of discomfort, of initiation. — Dan Millman A Rite of Passage describes any ceremony or event marking an important transitional …


