What Advice Would You Offer to Someone Starting Out Their Coaching Journey?
Starting in April 2023, we’re bringing together some of the world’s most esteemed teachers on Mind-Body and Somatic Coaching for our unique, 120-hr Mind-Body Coaching Certificate. We recently caught up with some of our faculty to discuss what advice they would offer to someone starting out their coaching journey.
Manuela Mische-Reeds
Manuela Mischke Reeds, MA, MFT, is an international teacher of somatic psychology and trauma therapy. She is a founder of Hakomi Institute of California and Embodywise (non-profit) and senior Hakomi faculty. Manuela serves as the Chief Mental Health officer at Abroad.io a Human Transformation Platform building human centered organizations. Manuela has 25+ years of clinical experience with trauma psychotherapy clients, coaching executives, first responders, and executive leadership coaching. She is the author of Somatic Psychotherapy Toolbox (PESI, 2019) and 8 keys to Practicing Mindfulness (W.W.Norton, 2015) and contributing author Hakomi Mindfulness centered Psychotherapy. (W.W.Norton, 2015)
When asked what advice she would give to someone starting out their coaching journey, Manuela emphasizes the importance of practicing with yourself, because the soma is all about knowing your own body so that you can sit with another body and recognize the experience of another. Learning many tools, familiarizing yourself with those tools, and practicing yourself is extremely important so that you have a somatic knowledge that comes from within.
Kai Cheng Thom
Kai Cheng Thom, MSW, MSc, is a certified Somatic Sex Educator, Qualified Mediator, Clinical Hypnotherapist and Certified Professional Coach based in tkaronto/Toronto. She is also the author of five award-winning books in various genres. Kai Cheng's work focuses on the intersection of social justice, pleasure activism, and transformative approaches to healing conflict. A noted speaker and practitioner of somatic wellness, healing, and group process facilitation, Kai Cheng supports individuals and groups who are seeking to repair relationships and make transformative change.
Kai’s advice for someone considering becoming a coach or expanding their coaching career is to be doing their own work. Whatever modality it is that most excites and delights us to offer to clients, we should get to experience it first. It's all an experiment, and we have to be doing that experiment with ourselves, through our own bodies. Coaching is the process of facilitating someone else's change work by making deep, intimate, ethical contact with them. To be with other people's processes, we need to be with our own to understand how change works in someone else's body. It's all about self-exploration and exploration with the other.
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Richard Strozzi-Heckler
Richard Strozzi-Heckler has a Ph.D. in Psychology and is a seventh-degree black belt Shihan in aikido. He is a cofounder of the Lomi School and Tamalpais Aikido, and founder of Two Rock Aikido and Strozzi Somatics and Somatic Coaching. Richard was featured on the front page of the Wall Street Journal for developing the groundbreaking leadership program for the United States Marine Corps and was named one of the top fifty executive coaches in The Art and Practice of Leadership Coaching and in Profiles in Coaching.
Richard speaks about how the organizing principle for human beings is purpose - to ask yourself, ‘why are you on this earth now’? It’s important to be surrounded by competent listeners and people who both keep your feet to the fire and love you. People who can say, ‘no, you're way off - I don't feel it coming from your heart, so let's get in there more.’
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