Presencing
For organizations and teams who want to explore a different way of experiencing the same old problem so you can identify novel insights, feel a challenging situation shift to resolution, and access possibilities you wouldn’t have discovered otherwise.
“Between the head and feet of any given person is a billion miles of unexplored wilderness.”
-Gabrielle Roth, creator of the 5Rhythms and one of my teachers
“You cannot change a system unless you can change consciousness and you cannot change consciousness unless the system can see and sense itself.”
- Otto Schlamer, Theory U
“When we can feel something alive in our body shift from a feeling of stuck to possibility, then we know what it feels like to embody change.”
-Julie Stuart
Body Based Explorations
Reveal Possibilities, Gather Insight, and Solve Problems
For over a decade, I’ve maintained that there are two frontiers: AI and the body.
While technologists embrace AI with both its promise and danger, those of us who work somatically (soma meaning the body) are learning about the wisdom our bodies hold and how it helps us navigate more intuitively than our minds are capable of.
Through BODY-BASED MOVEMENT, we learn how to create thriving relationships, lead teams, and support each other. Large scale systemic change models like Theory U incorporate embodied practices when working on complex systems, as do I, because they are effective at diagnosing WHERE and HOW change may occur.
This can be offered as a stand-alone 1-2 hour session that’s part of your meeting or conference. Or a half-day session.
This can also be woven into a longer strategic meeting or offsite.
These emergent practices are simple yet can be incredibly illuminating, which is why I add embodiment processes (using our bodies as learning labs) into my facilitation whenever possible- because it allows a different way of experiencing the problem, sensing a solution, and embodying the change. Initially, this can feel edgy to people.
The first time I used a movement practice in a corporate setting was with a group of medical scientists several years ago and it was profound. People whose job it was to facilitate healing in the human body were easily accessing the wisdom of their own bodies.
This is what I call “presencing.” Sensing, tuning in, and listening to the unknown for what’s next can reveal unexpected and powerful perspectives that can gently usher in change. Letting bodies move within a team-building map on the floor or while exploring a situation where each person takes the role of a stakeholder allows the system to see itself.
Trained in Social Presencing Theater, Nonlinear Movement method, and the 5Rhythms (a free expression, dance movement practice with a decades-long lineage that I teach regularly) I interject potent, body-based experiences into our engagement or design bespoke stand-alone processes so that we can revel in the insight gained from experimentation.
