Love to learn of your surprise to yourself in your creative work! Your share reminds me of content I have created that didn’t actually sell but was the response to a potential sale/need.

It is all useful and can be reworked reformatted for future clients! Great stuff. 🙂

Yes the longer term is key. This is why in business coaching selling 3 month, 6 month and 12 month packages are more beneficial to clients. The challenge is trying to understand perceptions and limiting beleifs especially distortions of time for example the mindset (which I have experienced) of “I want it yesterday” Ai! This is where the clever…

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Yes, Sarah. Thanks for your share here. The competencies are more and more helpful. They hold the structure.

Thanks Ally. Your share evokes the new story being woven by the blazing forging trail makers we are.

Sarah, yes just revisiting this thread and finding it true still.

Hi Jen,

I agree with your share here. It does happen most of the time and I find I’m a little more aware of it after each session. Sometimes I’m aware of it during session and feel all kinds of vibes!

summary

“What ideas do you have for how you might use PartsWork and nature-connected coaching in the future with your client?”

The artist part in me and the inner child part want to play with partwork out on the land. From the start of the NCC journey I have wanted to bridge my artistic expressions with innocence and play. As a dancer and seeker of…

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Sophie,

I relate to your experience of a little unsure how to move through partswork at first. But I see this second time around got you askign some powerful questions as I discovered in my experience as well. It’s good to know I’m not alone in learning this new tool for coaching. I love the question “which part do I default to?” I will use that in…

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Jen,

I loved reading your post. What a transformation you’ve experienced! Amazing story <3 But your point about the grief of not identifying with a part of your life anymore is very insightful for us. Yes, clients may experience this as so much of the way one identifies is attached to what they want to change sometimes. Death tied to an introject…

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Typo: *nature as “space-holder” not place-holder

Initial

Prior to partswork 2 I felt confused about what I was learning. Now I have way more of a grasp on this concept and am excited to go deeper into learning how it changes and adapts. I see this as a core practice for my coaching which the artist in me is excited to use creatively for myself and clients.

In My Stroke of Insight by Taylor I…

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Summary

I have an urge to take incorporation a little further. With the modern disease of isolation, incorporation may feel incomplete without acknowledgement from others. When we work with clients there are stages or rites of passage that come into perspective. When someone goes off on a journey of transformation what they discover and what the…

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Response 2 @jenniferlecompte

I wonder if certain parts are more prone to certain stages of change. For example is my artist part more often in a pre-contemplation stage and my student part in an action stage?

I agree with your point of the misleading coaching world. Every now and then I read on my facebook (which has a lot of life coaches on my…

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Jen,

I appreciate your reflection. Yes I observe a lot of resonance and attunement in my interactions with clients. I feel as though often they state things I am learning or experiencing or desiring to discover more of personally. It is funny when I notice these moments I have to pause and make a note for my path and self-severence process. It is a…

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Response 1 @ Sophie

Hi Sophie,

I am resonating with your sentence “start being able to communicate what I offer”. I’m struggling with this as I am trying to conjure what part of me will communicate my professional services.

I love the frame from the podcast you offer about opening a relationship. Although I believe that it is both. If you don’t know…

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Summary

I’m taking away the loss line we were taught. I thought that was brilliant and can be ritualized in transformational work. Also to treat my limbic system with self-honoring care. The more awareness and presence I bring to myself and my quest the more grounded and resourced I can be for my clients. I think now I feel more confident to…

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Response 2 @sophie-turner

Sophie, in some ways I can relate to your attitude around other’s grief. I had a parent who never sought help for their grief and growing up with that made me cynical and less able to empathize. I would roll my eyes and have that inner dialogue about just move on or take care of your shit already..It is okay to feel how…

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Response 1 @ Jen

Jen,

I love your example you introduced about different “feelings”. This is a very important distinction. It reminds me of when Michael taught us about the breath to surrender and to identify what feeling or sensation is occurring not emotion. Great insight about an introject in society around grief! Permission to fully feel is key…

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Initial

The client I’ve worked with experienced the loss of her sister. Her sister’s death was anticipatory loss but brought her into the the cycle of grief nonetheless. I witnessed her experience of loss consume her with shock. I noticed it in her body and energy. Her facial expression. Her silence. Protest was presenting but in a subtle way as…

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Summary

I see myself in the role of NCC as a guide who is a teacher, educator, facilitator, magic mirror holder upper with great awareness and presence. Serving in these frames with my co-guide Nature is a unique experience thus far. What I am reminded of is how do I hold all of what I’ve learned at EBI. I see a steady baseline of foundational know…

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Response 2 @jenniferlecompte

Hi Jen, awareness is key! But it is great to teach about it from a brain perspective and how it can benefit you. I wonder with the distraction of social media and false idea of social identity what are people especially younger generations aware of? Awareness makes me think of presence. They seem almost the same. What…

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Summary:

When I reflect on all the wisdom in everyone’s posts I think a little more about my personal path with trauma. I remember telling my therapist once that growing up in a home of domestic violence and other extreme abuse literally stunned me to the point of a constant freeze mode. The resolution and integration was like a jagged piece of…

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Response 2 @ Sophie

Hi Sophie,

your post reminded me of the importance of coaching presence. Present with trauma that is subjective. Present with what that is teaching you in the moment. Present with being uncomfortable with someone else’s trauma when it surfaces. Present with validating someone’s deep internal process. I agree with the value of…

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Response 1 @ Sarah

Hi Sarah,

I appreciate you highlighting the brain functions to keep us safe in survival mode and with that leading function there is no focus on learning and self-relizaiton as you wrote. I agree and see that assessment in working with clients about who we as the coach are talking to at that moment. It very well may be their…

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In group coaching women I lay down principles of support in the beginning of the circle. Some are grounded in embodied experiences from other groups I’ve studied in that were guided by facilitators who are trauma informed and I adapted my approach to include them in my services. Some of them are the following.

There are no rules everything is a c…

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Summary post

What I’ve been wondering is if a neural pathway is forged then that doesn’t always mean the person is in a specific stage of change does it? I can’t find it in my notes if it suddenly launches you into let’s say contemplation. Would it be that stage following a new neural path? What I’m taking away from this intensive is tremendous. I…

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Initial response

This is the part of the training that felt like sorcery to me. There isn’t much difference between a magical practice and the science of the brain. So I’m having fun exploring this in a personal way. But for my coaching summary here is what I’ve gathered.

The client I worked with had an ideal trait which was they have deep conne…

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Response 2 @Leslie

Hi Leslie,

The stages of change is a key guiding model to assess with. I was wondering just what stage a coach may perceive a client in that may not be where they are. For example you mentioned “You would think that someone who signs up for an app for weight loss is at least in the contemplation stage, but that’s not always the…

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Response 1 @ambermccormick

Reflecting on experiences from a brain perspective

Amber, your story demonstrates your ability in knowing your audience. When teaching, opening up space to teach about how the brain functions you used visual aid and basic terms and parts keeping it relateable – what happens when the brain has stress normalizing human…

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@ Ally

Hi Ally,

I appreciate the insight gained from your initial post. Providing examples of three different clients shows the various ways you approach coaching. I enjoy your question you ask in the start of your session which I can see brings them into the present day awareness. I agree offering the care and consideration to shift…

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In Coaching Skills by Jenny Rogers p. 71 there are some useful tips on approaching a session from a brain perspective. One tip is to educate your client about their brain and how it functions. If we “teach clients how the amygdala and limbic system generally work as a way to control it” it can support them in regulating their nervous system as the…

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Initial post

I met my client in the cafe where we chatted over arroz con pollo about the great pause of the pandemic and how within a pause there are opportunities that come to the foreground suddenly. As I listened to him explain what pause was teaching him he segued into his desire to return to his art after a long time of stepping away from it.…

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Summary Post

What I feel is my take away from this module is diversity in the varied ways we meet our clients. There infinite possibilities in approaching gestalt/partswork tools and integrating them at times when we as guide feel it will serve our client’s session. I enjoyed reading about how this is a tailored to meet the needs of client kind of…

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Reply 2

@ Sophie

I also favor partswork. At first it’s a little weird but then it gets really interesting quickly! I also came to stop with pretty much the same points you laid out for self-inquiry. Mostly #3 and #5. Now I’m thinking which part of me feels this way ! I also had a notion that “oh man now there is more complexity to my m…

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@Jen

I agree with your point on Gestalt complimenting partswork. The use of the mandala is like this really creative urge in me that can’t wait to see mandalas represented in nature. For now the jamboard works. I wonder Jen which mandala you used with your client? I appreciate your insight about how clients can feel things in the future b…

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this is the initial post with typos

Sorry about the typos hope you get what I’m trying to say. I tried editing but it wouldn’t let me and gave me a red alert!

The client I worked with is an adult who wanted to express some creative side to him he felt he couldn’t access. So in our session I asked what his goal was and it was to write poetry which up until that point he had not. We worked through severance for several sessions until just under the surface we had located a “part” where the poetry wante…

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