healing the collective, includes ourselves.

I support people interested in collective care, wellbeing, mutual aid, and liberated communities. This includes every day people of all types—stay-at-home parents to executive leaders, human resources professionals to managers and staff, people in technical roles to therapists, grocery store clerks to small business owners.

As a Strozzi-trained ICF Coach, I utilize Strozzi Institute’s groundbreaking methodology for somatic coaching which helps people move their learning focus away from the head and into the body, and to incorporate body-based practices and action-oriented communication to understand conditioned patterns limiting performance and build resilience as a leader.

This coaching is great if you believe healing the collective includes healing ourselves and you want to deepen your own skills and capabilities to support your own needs, boundaries, capabilities, and limits. In this type of heart-centered coaching, you will connect more deeply with your body, mind, and spirit and develop regular practices to center and ground yourself.

Somatic or soma refers to the body. Along with the thinking, pragmatic, and accountability components of traditional coaching, a somatic approach engages the body along the way. In our work, you’ll be supported to align your entire being– actions, speech, emotions, moods, and physical presence—with an intentional vision and commitment to the future. I will partner with you to explore common workplace (or life) challenges in communication, trust-building, boundaries, advocacy of self/others, and your own well-being.

Possible outcomes:

• Increasing your capacity to feel centered in your daily life

• Increasing body, mind, and spirit interconnectedness

• Receiving education on your Conditioned Tendencies (CT), which is an automatic way of responding in times of stress and overwhelm

• Building somatic awareness, which means an increased capacity to pay attention to your body’s cues as you move through your workday, and with this awareness, increased access to new responses, choices, and outcomes

• Creating a somatic declaration to guide you in embodying your personal commitments and values daily

• Deepening your intercultural awareness capabilities in navigating differences and commonalities with people

• Satisfying your healing and wellbeing goals

Sessions are 50 minutes taking place virtually or in-person. Sessions include goal setting, accountability, and engaging in embodiment/body-based practices to build self-awareness (i.e., centering, body-scan, making requests/declines, hand-on-chest). Through a blend of embodiment, intercultural awareness, transformative learning, and social justice principles, we will focus on what you need— whether that’s moving through grief, reconnecting with your inner child, increasing joy, processing patterns with overriding needs, or a mix.

One of my favorite moments is when someone has an ah-ha moment of connecting with themselves. Somatic coaching is so nourishing. We live in a world that insists on separating our minds, bodies and spirits, and overriding our needs for safety.

This coaching container lets you lean in softly to the areas you wish for healing and shifting, connect with the ways you hold with stress and tension, validate your experiences, become more of your own compass, and increase your self-accountablility.

In our time together, you’ll develop a habit of centering yourself, and have these beautiful, sweet little moments where you get to feel yourself more and practice allowing for it all (your heart, gut, tension, grief, anger, longings).

We need to put our mask on first. I don’t know about you, but the collective vision I have is one of embodied people who love, fight, and support each other — with a dignity for each other, an awareness of our limits and capacity, and a reverance and commitment to healing our historical, and on-going woundings. Remember, healing the collective, includes healing ourselves.