Executive Somatic Coaching
As an expert or leader at the top of your field, you have the skills, experience, and knowledge to make an impact. You are working at peak capacity in all the areas that you can control.
So why is somatic coaching often needed to perform your work at the highest level?
Your Autonomic Nervous System (ANS) and knee-jerk somatic responses to people, stressful situations, and unexpected problems are not controlled by your conscious mind or even by your hard-won expertise.
Your body’s ANS responses are not controllable because the ANS is our threat detection and threat response system; for survival purposes, it must be faster than our conscious mind and neocortex.
Why is Somatic coaching important?
Your Autonomic Nervous System (ANS) regulation responses - your ability to regulate your emotions when under stress, and your attachment style (the way you instinctively relate and feel around other people) are outside your conscious awareness and not under the control of your conscious mind. This somatic programming has often been laid down as early as infancy or childhood and the patterns are brain-wired into your neural structures.
This somatic early conditioning in the ANS can hamper our ability to live and work at peak performance. Somatic coaching helps to shift patterns of unhelpful behaviour, instinctive responses, and sensations of feeling overwhelmed and not in control over our thoughts, behaviours, and reactions. Somatic coaching works by teaching you how to impact the ANS. You will learn how to decrease your stress hormone levels, re-regulate your ANS, and return to the Parasympathetic state of your ANS, also referred to as Ventral Vagal - in a relaxed connection.
Somatic coaching helps clients untangle neural pathways underlying fear, anxiety and terror associated with past traumatic events memories and makes room for the brain-body to respond to triggers differently in present time. The approach deepens your ability to self-regulate, or find more flexibility and balance in your emotions and reactions.
It empowers people to reconnect with balance, hope, and joy in their lives.
Our practitioners are trained in Somatic Experiencing
Somatic Experiencing® (SE™) created by Dr. Peter Levine. SE™ works at the level of the nervous system to track bodily sensations and movements to shift patterns of chronic stress and trauma that leave us feeling scared, stuck, shut down, overwhelmed, or disconnected.
Somatic Experiencing® understands trauma and overwhelming stress as a physiological issue, not just a psychological one.
In other words, trauma and stress are experienced and stored in the body and therefore the body needs to be a part of the healing process.
Here are some of the benefits…
Peak productivity.
Better relationships with other people in the workplace.
Ability to present your message in a more clear, commanding and confident manner.
Learn to settle the Nervous System.
Relieve the physical, emotional and physiological effects of stress and trauma.
Release deeply stored emotions, anxiety and fear that are often not influenced by our rational thinking.
Build resilience & regain a sense of empowerment.
Learn to set personal boundaries.
Perform at a higher capacity under stressful situations with improved cognitive function.
Reduce long-term effects of stress on the body.
Creates new neural pathways for lasting change.
