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Emma Kiendl PCCSandy Brody ACC,
CPCC
Practices to Build a Sentient Coach
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Session Objectives

• Enhance and deepen participants
  experience/appreciation with their own sentience
• Create opportunities to support and integrate
  sentience for themselves and with clients.

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Definition of Sentient

• Having the power of sense perception or
  sensation conscious.
• Synonyms alive, aware.
• Definition cognizant, mindful, sensible,
  conscious.

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• BEFORE PRACTICES

• AFTER PRACTICES

• Unconsciously triggered
• Off-center TIME
• Doing what is expected
• Not clear on purpose, spent
• Disconnected, adrift, and isolated.
• Reductive
• Automatic
• Knowledge

• Consciously triggered
• Centered Time
• Being - in choice
• Clear on purpose, how to self- sustain, restore
• Sense of deep connection, refuge and community
• Generative
• Considered
• Wisdom

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Vs.
MIND-BODY-EMOTION-SOUL
MIND
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Sample of Ancient Practices/Modern Applications

• Mindful Breath
• Centering and Body Scan
• Guided Meditation
• Awareness Meditation

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Transitions for Leadership Development/Team
Building/Coaching

• Poetry
• Music
• Future self imagery
• Body Scan
• Tai chi
• Meditation
• Centering
• Body Scans

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Deep, Mindful Breathing has many Benefits

• Gets us into our bodies
• Keeps blood stream oxygenated
• Calms central nervous system
• Lowers cortisol by 50 in 10 minutes.
• Up to 70 of toxins can expelled through deep
  breaths

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The Body Scan

• Awareness technique for focusing and noticing
  sensations, tension, or contraction.
• Awareness alone may bring about change
• Before a session, helps you notice whats yours
  vs. their stuff.
• Adapted from Suzanne Zeman- Listening to Bodies
  for Coaches , Managers and Executives

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Awareness Meditation

• We do not have to create awareness we simply have
  to access it.
• Meditation is a doorway into greater awareness.
  You can invite the awareness to come to you, to
  be present in your life. To name or invoke
  something calls its energy present.
• The Vibrant Life by Donna Thompson

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Guided Meditation

• Just notice, without judgment
• You are always in control
• Seeing vs. Sensing
• If you can worry/dream/get lost in a book, you
  can do this.

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Write or draw about the experience

• What was particularly
• Useful
• Interesting
• Powerful

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With a partner, discuss

• Anything useful, interesting
• Ways to have a regular practice
• Accountability

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Practical ways to integrate practices in to your
client work

• Request coaching clients engage in a regular
  pause practice
• Support communities of practice
• When coaching a client or team offer practices as
  transitions or team building activity.

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Resources for Further Study

• Books
• Tara Brach- Radical Acceptance
• Suzanne Zeman- Listening to our Bodies
• The Vibrant Life- Donna Thompson
• CD-MP3
• Guided Meditations for Busy People Led by
  Bodhipaksa
• John Kabat Zinn -Mindfulness Meditation
• Sites
• Healthjourneys.com