Certificate in Somatic Coaching
Dates
Programme begins Wednesday February 5th 2025 and ends Thursday July 3rd 2025
The schedule ensures that each session is balanced between theory and practice, allowing participants to gradually build practical skills and understanding of Somatic Coaching.
Sessions are interactive with opportunities to peer coach and to receive feedback from your coachee, peers and your tutor.
Outcomes
By the end of this Somatic Coaching Programme, you will be able to:
Develop yourself and your clients
- Connect to What You Care About:
Bring in ways of grounding within the body’s wisdom to leverage life and courage towards what you and your clients truly care about. - Grow Your and Your Clients Capacity to Live and Act in an increasingly complex world.
- Facilitate State Shifts for Action:
Help clients shift their state to create more options and move away from patterns that no longer serve them.
Build Somatic Awareness
- Understand Somatic Empowerment: Recognise how somatic awareness facilitates empowerment and change.
- Encourage Embodied Client Engagement: Support clients to connect with and trust their bodies, especially when they are accustomed to a head-centric approach.
- Integrate Multiple Intelligences: Broaden your capacity to access and integrate all your intelligences - body, brain, heart, emotions and soul - to foster a holistic body-heart-spirit connection.
Develop Inner Wisdom
- Trust in Inner Wisdom: Foster an environment to bring in your own and your clients' inherent wisdom and potential for growth beyond the apparent.
- Cultivate Compassion and Curiosity: Use compassion, curiosity, and awareness to enable clients shift their automatic reactions under pressure welcoming their history, experience and broader social context.
- Cultivate Presence and Embodiment: Develop and embody the qualities that are important to you as a coach.
Explore Movement & Embodiment Practices
- Utilise Somatic Tools: Employ somatic tools such as centring, body postures, and shapes to enhance coaching effectiveness.
- Use Centring Practices: Apply centring techniques as a tool for personal and professional development.
- Develop Personalised Somatic Practices: Create and maintain personalised somatic practices for yourself and your clients to support developmental shifts.
- Practice Movement Techniques: Incorporate movement practices into your coaching to support somatic awareness and growth.
- Awaken from Automatic States: Grow your capacity for intentional attention and build bridges between reactive and resourceful states.
Theory & Understanding
- Understand what is Somatic Coaching.
- Understand Trauma-Informed Somatic Coaching: Apply trauma-informed approaches and know when to signpost clients to other resources.
- Understand the Neurobiology of Change: Apply insights from Dan Siegel, and Stefanie Faye on the science behind body-brain integration.
- Understand the Autonomic Nervous System: Gain a deeper understanding of the autonomic nervous system and its relevance to somatic coaching.
Peer Learning & Coaching Practice
- Share Learning with Peers: Engage in sharing and reflecting on learning experiences with your peers.
- Assignments and Feedback: Learn through practice and homework to reinforce learning.
- Experience feedback on your coaching from course tutor(s).
Ethics
- Apply Guidelines, Legal, and Ethical Scope of Practice: Implement informed consent, contracting, permission, and boundaries in your coaching practice.