What is Body-Centered Coaching?

The Body-Centered Coaching Method , developed by Marlena Field, is a blend and integration of the teachings of the Hakomi Method of Psychotherapy, the coaching methods of The Coaches Training Institute (CTI) and other studied modalities.

For a comprehensive outline of the Essence of the Body-Centered Coaching Method, please click on "The Essence" in the navigation bar above. You will read about the 5 essential qualities

• Simply Being
• Being Present, Mindful & Centered
• Reflective presence
• Body Wisdom
• Embodied Wholeness

and the 13 skills and techniques found in the Body-Centered Coaching Method.

The practice of Body-Centered Coaching is based on the premise that the body has a natural intelligence that can offer coaches, and consequently their clients, a new depth of learning and self-awareness. The body is an amazing source of information and an under-utilized resource for learning and change.

Body-Centered Coaching involves being intuitive about the language and signals the body is sending. Interpreting the information and then integrating it opens many more creative pathways for both coaches and clients. Participants will learn to use the body to better understand feelings, thoughts, perspectives, memories, intentions and intuition – many of the diverse aspects of the human experience.

The practice of body-centered coaching works with the inter-relationship of the internal and the external. The internal involves having your clients notice their internal experience: their body sensations, and the signals and messages their body is sending, while the external involves their external experience in the form of posture, gesture or changes in body position. When clients move, even slightly, the energy can shift to connect body, mind and spirit as one.

How is it done?

The practice of body-centered coaching can be done in person or over the phone with powerful and sustainable results.

What is Mindfulness?

Being mindful means being aware and attune to body signals, feelings, emotions and thoughts. Body-Centered Coaching is a coaching resource that will enhance your skills to help clients focus and become more mindful, adding more depth to your coaching sessions. Mindfully accessing the body’s natural wisdom is a learnable skill and is foundational to Body-Centered Coaching.

Listen to Marlena, the founder of Body-Centered Coaching, talk about mindfulness and witness a demonstration of this amazing technique first-hand.

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Is Body-Centered Coaching for me?

Are you a coach, counselor, therapist, social worker, psychologist, mentor, healthcare professional or wellness practitioner who is looking to:

1. Acquire a powerful and invigorating approach to unlocking your client’s growth?

2. Create meaningful and sustainable change for your clients?

3. Add new skills to your coaching techniques and tools to deepen the client experience?

4. Incorporate the natural wisdom of the body into your repertoire of skills?

5. Assist clients to access body wisdom and information in order to achieve greater insight, self-awareness and self-acceptance?

6. Move your clients from ‘head to heart’?

7. Implement an additional and dynamic modality that is guaranteed to enliven your coaching and therapeutic skills, and enhance your clients’ results?

Body-Centered Coaching provides helping professionals with all of the above. It is a powerful and refreshing approach to unlocking clients’ growth, and creating meaningful and sustainable change.

What are the benefits of Body-Centered Coaching?

Accessing the body’s wisdom is a learnable skill. Clients are empowered when you, as their guide, help them to access the body’s insight.

Clients will achieve meaningful and sustainable change in the following areas:

1. Decision-Making and Goals
   Many clients are faced with decisions as they move through change. Body-centered coaching skills use the body as a resource in two ways: 1) embodying perspectives and 2) experimenting with possibilities. By accessing the body's wisdom, clients will be reassured they have made carefully weighed, grounded decisions for themselves.

2. Limiting Beliefs and Fusions
   When clients have limiting thoughts, there is a corresponding tension in the body. The tension patterns hold valuable information. As clients move beyond the limiting belief and embody a more empowering, positive belief, tension in the body is relieved and the mind becomes clearer. They then move forward to make better decisions and ultimately reach their goals. After all, beliefs create our behavior, which in turn generate our results.

3. Insights and Inner Peace
   Body-Centered Coaching skills invite the client to become more aware of their body and then share with you the thoughts, feelings and sensations that arise. When they do that, you bring forward more information that deepens both of your understandings of what is happening. Using a skill called “remembering the resource”, clients connect to their internal resources and a sense of deep personal acceptance.

4. Health and Well-being
   There is a connection between mindfully noticing body signals, an inner peace that leads to less stress and greater confidence, and better health and wellbeing. When coaches and helping professionals mindfully include the body’s wisdom in the conversation, a calmness and sense of being present occurs for both the client and the practitioner.

   The practice of body-centered coaching recognizes that body, mind and spirit are different aspects of our whole being. For clients to feel peaceful, these aspects need to be inter-connected. By integrating the whole, clients make better decisions and experience greater fulfillment in relation to their endeavors.