The Body In Coaching And Training An Introduction To Embodied Facilitation

Download or read book The Body in Coaching and Training: An Introduction to Embodied Facilitation written by Mark Walsh and published by McGraw-Hill Education (UK). This book was released on 2021-01-07 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Are you a coach or trainer looking to work more with the body? Do you want to work safely and help your clients make deeper change? Do you know that the body matters for facilitation, but are not sure practically how to develop this aspect of your work? This book will provide you with the theory and real-world tools for excellence in embodied facilitation. It contains over 50 simple exercises for both you and your clients, and offers a clear pragmatic framework for deepening your experience and developing your skills. Through core techniques such as awareness raising exercises, centring and embodied listening, you will learn how to help clients with a range of common coaching topics such as: • Leadership • Confidence • Finding purpose • Stress management • Communication skills Mark Walsh’s straight-talking approach offers a framework for understanding the field, in addition to techniques you can use with clients immediately. From processing trauma to centring yourself in times of stress, it is a no-nonsense resource for any coach, facilitator or teacher wanting to work more through the body. The body is a huge part of who we are, yet it is often ignored. This book will show you how to include it safely, skilfully and powerfully. Mark Walsh is a world leader in embodied facilitation. He founded the Embodied Facilitator Course and Embodied Yoga Principles, hosts The Embodiment Podcast, led the record-breaking Embodiment Conference and manages the business training company Integration Training. He holds a black belt in aikido, an honours degree in psychology, and a 50m swimming badge. He offends pirates with his swearing and impresses dads globally with his jokes.

Download or read book Graphical Facilitation written by Curie Scott and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-11-29 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If ‘a picture is worth a thousand words,’ this book provides an approach to help create professional pictures that productively and powerfully capture conversations and thinking for individual and collective learning. Individuals are bombarded by information, and organizations, managers, and teachers often lack a corresponding set of tools to make sense of this complexity—resulting in far too many “death by bullet-point” presentations. This is that toolkit, also offering invitations to readers to extend their thinking past these tools to enable the creation (and co-creation with teams, learners, and clients) of graphical depictions, models, and metaphors to help people make sense of their world. This accessible book is constructed as a visual reference so readers can quickly pick out the specific tool or strategy they need, whether working with individuals and teams to promote self-awareness, develop emotional intelligence, improve communication, or articulate vision and strategy. This clear and adaptable guide will be a welcome resource for teachers, trainers, managers, and coaches to empower people to learn, think, and create in a powerful, memorable, and graphical way.

Download or read book Student Growth and Development in New Higher Education Learning Spaces written by Siok Kuan Tambyah and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-11-30 with total page 131 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Learning spaces are an increasing area of debate in higher education studies, as universities attempt to develop holistic forms of education that connect epistemological areas. Focusing on faculty-student collaborative learning in residential colleges in Singapore, this book carefully examines how we can enable students to grow and develop, not just as workers for the global marketplace but also as unique individuals. Showcasing the diversity of programs and initiatives that contribute to student learning outcomes, the volume draws upon the real-world experiences of educators and students. Contributors examine the benefits and challenges of crafting and implementing innovative programs and activities focused on the technologies of learning, interdisciplinary thinking, experiential learning, community engagement and authenticity. Students, working with one another, their teachers and community partners, also play a pivotal role in co-creating their learning journeys. The chapter authors provide their critical reflections on how the experiences and lessons learnt may apply to other learning spaces in higher education (including online and blended spaces). This edited volume will be relevant to any educator, researcher or student interested in creative learning spaces, and innovative programmes and activities that bring together students, educators and community partners.

Download or read book The Artistry of Teaching in Higher Education written by Helen King and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-08-13 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introducing a fresh approach to conceptualising and actioning high-quality teaching in higher education, this essential volume fills a gap in current literature by expanding beyond the mere ‘delivery’ of teaching. Instead, it offers an evidence-based discussion of ‘artistry’ and demonstrates how this may be applied successfully within a higher education setting to enable better student learning. Key concepts such as improvisation, embodiment, knowing oneself and one’s students, and a compassionate and relational approach to facilitating learning are unpacked throughout. Filled with practical examples based on scholarship and experience from and applicable to a wide range of disciplines, The Artistry of Teaching in Higher Education is divided into three distinct parts which explore: Creativity, improvisation and context; Authenticity and professional identity; Developing the artistry of teaching. An essential read for teachers, senior management, educational developers, and policy makers alike, this book acts as a call to action within higher education institutions to support and create space for learning, creativity and innovation, to the benefit of the development of their teachers’ expertise.

Download or read book Routledge International Handbook of Positive Health Sciences written by Jolanta Burke and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-12-27 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This ground-breaking book combines research and practice in the rapidly growing field of Positive Psychology with the fastest-growing medical speciality of Lifestyle Medicine. Section 1 maps out the new field of positive health by exploring the scope, content and architecture of this rapidly emerging area of research. It explores research findings and applications derived from Lifestyle Medicine and Positive Psychology that are critical for positive health. Section 2 delves into positive health research, covering topics such as using character strengths to improve health, maximising psychological wellbeing from head to toe, optimising gut health and understanding the relationships between mind and body. Section 3 offers guidance on applying the principles of positive health by describing new Positive Health Interventions (PHIs), introducing innovative positive health coaching models and exploring the contribution of positive psychology to health equity. The book is ideal for medical doctors, nurses and health professionals interested in helping their patients flourish psychologically and physically. It is an invaluable guide for social workers, positive psychologists, coaches and mental health professionals who want to explore the physiological dimensions of wellbeing.

Download or read book The Art of Somatic Coaching written by Richard Strozzi-Heckler and published by North Atlantic Books. This book was released on 2014-02-11 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Art of Somatic Coaching introduces the concepts and principles of coaching with practices that include body awareness, bodywork, and mindfulness for both the coach and the client. Author and expert coach, Richard Strozzi-Heckler, PhD, explains that in order to achieve truly sustainable changes in individuals, teams, and organizations, it is necessary to implement body-oriented somatic practices in order to dissolve habits, behaviors, and interpretations of the world that are no longer relevant. He explains that these ways of being are integrated in the body--at the level of the musculature, organs, and nervous system. By implementing a somatic approach, these patterns can be shifted in order for transformation to occur. Opening with a discussion of the roots of Somatic Coaching, the book describes the emotional and physical cost of being distanced from our bodies. Originating from the rationalistic idea that the mind and body are separate, this sense of disconnection spurred the emergence of the field of somatics that views the body as not just a physiological entity, but as the center of our lived experience in the world. Out of this philosophy, Somatic Coaching was developed as a way to cultivate the self through the body. Methods in this book include: • Somatic awareness--becoming aware of sensations • Somatic opening--includes bodywork to release held patterns in the body • Somatic practices--meditation, movement, and being present in everyday life The social context in which one is raised, the supportive, healing force of the outdoors and nature as well as acknowledgment of the spirit are also woven into the practice. Through these practices, a rhythm of unfolding occurs in what Strozzi-Heckler describes as an Arc of Transformation--moving in stages from conditioned tendencies to a new satisfying and fulfilling way of being that is fully embodied. Contents: Introduction; Chapter One: A Short Distance but a Big Cost; Chapter Two: Coaching; Chapter Three: Somatics and Somatic Coaching; Chapter Four: The Methodology; Chapter Five: The Rhythm of Action; Chapter Six: The Somatic Arc of Transformation

Download or read book Embodied Meditation written by Karin Van Maanen and published by Unicorn Slayer Press. This book was released on 2021-11-05 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Do you meditate? Do you have a body? Embodied Meditation can help you bring the two together beautifully. The way mindfulness is usually taught reflects the disembodiment of the modern world. Often meditation is taught without pleasure, free-flow or the body at all. Even the translated term "MINDfulness" reflects this. Sadly, this misses a lot of what makes meditation so powerful, and ensures it doesn't integrate into daily life. Throughout this refreshing take on meditation, Mark and Karin draw on their experience from the world of martial arts, dance and yoga. They offer a clear, no-nonsense and humorous roadmap to making your meditation more embodied. This books contains techniques suitable for: People newer to meditation who want a clear, practical system Movement lovers (e.g. yogis and dancers) who want an approach to meditation that fits well with their skills Experienced meditators who want to go deeper into embodiment You'll learn: How most meditation is disembodied A guide to the most common meditation challenges (including distraction, sleepiness and trauma) Over 30 embodied techniques (many that you won't find anywhere else) The most impactful and practical techniques for busy people (and how to build a regular practice around your lifestyle) A practical 'bridge' to bring meditation into your day-to-day life (work, childcare, sex, computer use, etc.) Promise: If you meditate, there will be something fresh and useful here to help deepen your practice. Take a look. "This is a clear-eyed, transformative guide that everyone can benefit from. With love and rigor, Karin van Maanen and Mark Walsh have synthesized the power of meditation when practised in an embodied way. The lessons in these pages clearly come from the author's experience, and so many people will benefit." -David Treleaven, PhD, author of Trauma-Sensitive Mindfulness: Practices for Safe and Transformative Healing. "If attention isn't embodied, it isn't mindful attention. This innovative book makes this abundantly clear, as Walsh and van Maanen bring their wealth of skill and experience in embodied arts, to teaching meditation practices grounded in and potentized by the sensory immediacy and somatic intelligence of bodily life." -Martin Aylward, author of Awake Where You Are: The art of embodied awareness. "Embodied Meditation is a clear and accessible guide written with care and the wish to benefit others. Dive in!" -Emma Slade, Author of Set Free, Buddhist nun, Founder and Managing Director of Opening Your Heart To Bhutan. "Meditation needs embodiment as much as embodiment needs meditation. No other resource has this many practical exercises for bridging these two worlds. If you are an embodiment practitioner who wants to deepen your meditation, or an established meditator who wants to integrate embodiment into your practice, then Mark & Karin's new book on 'Embodied Meditation' is for you!" -Miles Kessler - Meditation Teacher, Aikido Sensei, & host of the Meditate On This podcast. "A book on meditation that makes you laugh out loud? Yes, please! Embodied Meditation' is authoritative without being pompous, has a deliciously friendly tone and is full of great ideas for beginners and experienced practitioners alike. A refreshingly real and relatable meditation handbook which is encouraging, charming and full of wit." -Bridget Hurst, Writer and Meditation Practitioner.