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Building Sentient Coaching Practices for Deep Connection and Self-Reflection

Explore practices to enhance awareness and integration of sentience in coaching sessions. Discover techniques like mindful breath, guided meditation, and body scanning for deepening connection with self and others. Resources like books by Tara Brach and John Kabat-Zinn offer further study in this transformative approach.

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Building Sentient Coaching Practices for Deep Connection and Self-Reflection

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  1. Emma Kiendl PCCSandy Brody ACC, CPCC Practices to Build a Sentient Coach

  2. Session Objectives • Enhance and deepen participants’ experience/appreciation with their own sentience • Create opportunities to support and integrate sentience for themselves and with clients.

  3. Definition of Sentient • Having the power of sense perception or sensation; conscious. • Synonyms: alive, aware. • Definition cognizant, mindful, sensible, conscious.

  4. 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

  5. Vs. MIND-BODY-EMOTION-SOUL MIND

  6. Sample of Ancient Practices/Modern Applications • Mindful Breath • Centering and Body Scan • Guided Meditation • Awareness Meditation

  7. Transitions for Leadership Development/Team Building/Coaching • Poetry • Music • Future self imagery • Body Scan • Tai chi • Meditation • Centering • Body Scans

  8. 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

  9. 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

  10. 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

  11. 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.

  12. Write or draw about the experience… • What was particularly : • Useful • Interesting • Powerful

  13. With a partner, discuss… • Anything useful, interesting… • Ways to have a regular practice • Accountability

  14. 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.

  15. 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

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