“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. …
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 …
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 …
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 …