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Emma Kiendl PCC Sandy Brody ACC, CPCC. Practices to Build a Sentient Coach. Session Objectives. Enhance and deepen participants’ experience/appreciation with their own sentience Create opportunities to support and integrate sentience for themselves and with clients. Definition of Sentient.
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Emma Kiendl PCCSandy Brody ACC, CPCC Practices to Build a Sentient Coach
Session Objectives • Enhance and deepen participants’ experience/appreciation with their own sentience • Create opportunities to support and integrate sentience for themselves and with clients.
Definition of Sentient • Having the power of sense perception or sensation; conscious. • Synonyms: alive, aware. • Definition cognizant, mindful, sensible, conscious.
BEFORE PRACTICES AFTER PRACTICES • Unconsciously triggered • Off-center TIME+++++ • Doing – what is expected • Not clear on purpose, spent • Disconnected, adrift, and isolated. • Reductive • Automatic • Knowledge • Consciously triggered • Centered Time +++++++ • Being - in choice • Clear on purpose, how to self- sustain, restore • Sense of deep connection, refuge and community • Generative • Considered • Wisdom
Vs. MIND-BODY-EMOTION-SOUL MIND
Sample of Ancient Practices/Modern Applications • Mindful Breath • Centering and Body Scan • Guided Meditation • Awareness Meditation
Transitions for Leadership Development/Team Building/Coaching • Poetry • Music • Future self imagery • Body Scan • Tai chi • Meditation • Centering • Body Scans
Deep, Mindful Breathing has many Benefits • Gets us into our bodies • Keeps blood stream oxygenated • Calms central nervous system • Lowers cortisol by 50 % in 10 minutes. • Up to 70% of toxins can expelled through deep breaths
The Body Scan • Awareness technique for focusing and noticing sensations, tension, or contraction. • Awareness alone may bring about change • Before a session, helps you notice what’s yours vs. their stuff…. • Adapted from Suzanne Zeman- Listening to Bodies for Coaches , Managers and Executives
Awareness Meditation • We do not have to create awareness we simply have to access it. • Meditation is a doorway into greater awareness. You can invite the awareness to come to you, to be present in your life. To name or invoke something calls its energy present. • The Vibrant Life by Donna Thompson
Guided Meditation • Just notice, without judgment • You are always in control • Seeing vs. Sensing • If you can worry/dream/get lost in a book, you can do this.
Write or draw about the experience… • What was particularly : • Useful • Interesting • Powerful
With a partner, discuss… • Anything useful, interesting… • Ways to have a regular practice • Accountability
Practical ways to integrate practices in to your client work… • Request coaching clients engage in a regular pause practice • Support communities of practice • When coaching a client or team offer practices as transitions or team building activity.
Resources for Further Study Books • Tara Brach- Radical Acceptance • Suzanne Zeman- Listening to our Bodies • The Vibrant Life- Donna Thompson CD-MP3 • Guided Meditations for Busy People Led by Bodhipaksa • John KabatZinn -Mindfulness Meditation Sites • Healthjourneys.com