What is Embodied Leadership Coaching?

After 10 years of working with clients in corporate settings, I found that emotional and behavioural blocks would regularly appear in these areas:

• Confidence

• People pleasing

• Self-worth

• Boundaries

• Direct communication

This would often lead to anxiety and in the worst cases burnout. This is where the nervous system has been under so much stress without a break, it shuts down.

I work with the mind and body to see why tension arrises in certain circumstances. And work with neuropsychology and psychodynamic exploration to find the roots of this tension. I have developed the steps of my own practical style of Embodied Leadership Coaching as NAP:

1. Noticing – Noticing physical feelings, emotions, and knee-jerk reactions in leadership situations.

2. Aspiration – Knowing what kind of leader you aspire to be.

3. Practice – Experimenting with new behaviours to embody the leader you want to be.

Coaching usually comes up within the process of therapy and I don’t practice it as a separate discipline to therapy. This is because they are complementary practices; therapy can help us explore the roots of thoughts, feelings and behaviour - give them meaning and provide the freedom to make other choices. While coaching can give a framework to what those other choices can look like.