"Named one of the top fifty executive coaches worldwide in the landmark resource The Art and Practice of Leadership Coaching, RICHARD STROZZI-HECKLER, PhD, an internationally known speaker, coach, and consultant on leadership and mastery, is the president of the Strozzi Institute, which offers consulting and coaching services to individuals and companies on five continents. Over the past forty years he has coached thousands of individuals from Fortune 500 companies, NGOs, technology start-ups, nonprofits, the U.S. government, and the military."
"This book without question is truly a Magnum Opus. With what seems
to be a plethora of coaches popping up on Linkedin in and Twitter
every day, I think this book over time will be seen as the
sourcebook for what does and does not define someone as a
'coach'."
-Examiner.com
"This book introduces coaching principles that incorporate body
awareness, bodywork, and mindfulness for both the client and coach.
Key concepts presented are somatic awareness and somatic opening,
becoming aware of sensations, releasing patterns in the body,
meditation, movement, and being present in everyday life."
-Massage & Bodywork Magazine
"The definitive book on somatic coaching. Strozzi-Heckler 's wisdom
and somatic mastery capture the mindset, mood, and methods that are
essential to all coaches today. I feel changed and liberated after
reading this book-more awake and moved to align my life and my
coaching with my core. This is a book that can change your life and
might even save it!"
-Richard Leider, international bestselling author of The Power
of Purpose, Repacking Your Bags, and Life Reimagined
"This wise book presents an exciting new paradigm for coaching that
delivers transformational results. After decades of teaching
coaches and leaders, Richard Strozzi-Heckler has written a book
that offers an inspiring-and practical-vision of how to make vital
connections that link actions, emotions, thinking, and energetic
states, opening up a world of possibilities. This is the must-read
book for coaches and leaders who seek to integrate who they are
with how they lead."
-Katherine Ebner, director of the Institute for Transformational
Leadership, Georgetown University
"Richard Strozzi-Heckler has spent nearly half a century as one of
the few agents of transformation who has succeeded in carrying his
work and explorations far from quiet meditation halls and therapy
offices and out into the borderlands with warriors and
entrepreneurs. He illuminates the smallest, almost invisible ways
in which the culture shapes people to live at a distance from the
body, even when consciously embracing a unitary philosophy. He puts
forward a model of somatic coaching with easy-to-implement
strategies that seamlessly weave practices of sensitive attention,
conversation, breathing, touch, movement, and gestures. This book
is particularly unique in its breaking out of a model of
transformation that tends to be too narrowly focused on individuals
and small groups, rather than the very large populations which have
the major role in shaping the world."
-Don Hanlon Johnson, PhD, founder of the Somatic Psychotherapy
graduate degree program at California Institute of Integral Studies
and author of Everyday Hopes, Utopian Dreams: Reflections on
American Ideals
"Rarely do we meet genuine embodied human wisdom as we do in this
book. Such wisdom, cultivated over years of intentional practice
and directed by a compassionate heart, shows us a clear path toward
greater freedom, meaning, and belonging. Richard Strozzi-Heckler
transmits this wisdom powerfully into our own bodies, hearts and
minds, awakening confidence, curiosity and commitment. The Art
of Somatic Coaching overflows with distinctions, exercises, and
cogent examples. It's inviting and inspiring, vitally practical,
and a treasure trove for all of us dedicated to listening to human
suffering. A sparkling jewel brought to us by a living
treasure."
-James Flaherty, MCC, founder of New Ventures West and Integral
Coaching, author of Coaching: Evoking Excellence in
Others
"Strozzi-Heckler's latest contribution to the field of coaching
emphasizes the essential work of cultivating the self-an embodied
presence-as central to the development of the coach and key in the
journey to mastery. A must read for coaches dedicated to
transformational change in self, others and our world!"
-Pamela McLean, PhD and CEO, Hudson Institute of Coaching
"The dominant epistemology of our times reduces learning and
knowing fundamentally to exercises of a disembodied intellect. This
way of knowing is at the heart of the huge crises humanity is
facing right now. Coaching was born as a reaction to that
epistemology in order to take care of those issues. A deep and
lasting transformational learning requires in each of us a shift of
the dynamic coherence of our linguistic, emotional and somatic
being. Few people today understand and practice the somatic side of
coaching as Richard Strozzi-Heckler does. In this book, the reader
will find a dimension of the art of learning that is simply an
inspiration."
-Julio Olalla, president, The Newfield Network
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