Professional Services

Coaching is a collaborative process where the coach and client work together to reach the client's goals. Our brand of coaching is conducted individually or in small groups in business settings. Through dialogue and interactive training, this coaching practice is designed to increase self-awareness and modify unconscious behaviors.

During sessions, the coach asks pertinent questions and provides feedback meant to shift the client's worldview based on the merging of cognitive and somatic theory. Coaching relies upon the readiness of the client to adapt to new circumstances. The client builds effective interpersonal skills through the process of guided reflection based on the coach's assessment.

Executive Embodied Leadership Coaching: Embodied leadership coaching uses somatic-based Laban movement analysis to solve organizational challenges. Successful use of somatic practices can facilitate business agendas, reduce interpersonal conflict, and build effective team cohesion. Based on empirical research, somatic-based interventions have been shown to effectively support sustainable change. This coaching model is based on modifying posture and gesture influences in the communication feedback loop. Embodied leadership interventions enhance the client's skills to better meet the organization's needs.

Who may benefit from embodied leadership coaching? Executives who desire to build confidence in their leadership skills, verbal and non-verbal communication proficiencies, decision-making abilities, and management skills. These traits are often relevant when an executive is recently promoted, when there has been a change in the business environment, or when the executive's role has changed unexpectedly.

Team Coaching: When the external environment has changed, learning to adapt to those changes is vital for the survival of a team, project, or organization. ABC's team coaching practice uses somatic interventions to identify behaviors between colleagues, which can influence team decisions and outcomes. Our model of team coaching addresses overarching and systemic issues within groups that cannot be solved individually. Each team coaching engagement is custom designed to address specific organizational dynamics. Somatic-based interventions provide the client with the skills, tools, and knowledge necessary to adjust their social behaviors and team cohesion.

Team coaching interventions can diminish friction between colleagues that are based on unconscious somatic behaviors. Organizational stressors precipitated by cultural, racial, gender, or class-based divisions can also be addressed by team coaching interventions. Team members who become aware of their own somatic patterns and those of their colleagues may be more capable of working effectively by self-correcting their social behaviors. ABC's interventions are designed to adjust team culture to be more inclusive and effective.

Who may benefit from team coaching? Teams which may be experiencing interpersonal conflict between members, or who are unable to achieve group consensus, may benefit from team coaching. Teams perceived as not communicating effectively, who routinely miss production deadlines, or that fail to produce quality work, could be hindered by obstacles which may be resolved through team coaching. Team coaching may increase team members' abilities to use soft skills, either internally or externally, to resolve organizational challenges and interpersonal conflicts.