Services & Offerings
Welcome to what’s next for you!
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(Re)learn how to come home to your body.
In somatic coaching, we learn from the inside out, practicing reclaiming and reconnecting to the body’s wise knowing. In a somatic coaching relationship, I help you practice purposefully – intentionally growing new ways of knowing and doing in alignment with what (and who) you care about.
I describe soma as the wholeness of ourselves – our physical body (bones, skin, teeth, organs, blood), our emotional body (gut, heart, brain, hormones), our spiritual body (beliefs, mindsets, values, desires, and awe), and our cognitive or thinking body (thoughts, feelings, personal narratives, brain-based intelligence, decision-making, reason and rational).
Somatic practices are so powerful because we are literally practicing change with the body. We learn from the body how to practice differently. We learn to feel our bodies, allowing them to teach (and remind us) why we want to transform. As a coach, my role is to suggest the practices and guide the pacing to make your transformation possible.
Somatic coaching is a unique, confidential container of trust in which I can support you to:
Identify what your body is longing for – the commitments, desires, issues, and life challenges you are ready to face or move towards.
Understand and feel the ways in which your beliefs, mindsets, and default or learned responses have worked to take care of you.
Develop a set of embodied practices to support your healing and transformation.
Stay open and available to your body’s sensations, feelings, emotions, and insights, making room for something new to emerge.
Be accountable to who and what you are becoming – using our sessions as dedicated time to practice builds repetition that reinforces patterns and makes transformation more possible.
Practice the actions, behaviors, and mindsets you want to do more often.
Plan for what comes after our sessions, so that you stay intentional and on purpose beyond our time together.
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Somatic practices help us embody our anti-racist values.
In anti-racism coaching, we spend intentional time understanding how white supremacy lives through (and in) us and build purposeful practice to embody antidotes and alternatives, so that we are more effective at building, co-creating, and participating in multiracial movements for justice and liberation.
Anti-racism coaching draws heavily on the work of contemporary change agents and movement-builders, scholars, and ancestor activists.
In anti-racist coaching, we cover:
Living in the body.
(Re)connecting to spirit and the land.
Truth-telling, naming, and declaring.
Redefining safety.
Building shame resilience.
Redefining and reconnecting our worth and value in society.
Authentic action-taking with(in) communities of color.
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Your life is worthy of celebration.
When was the last time you paused to acknowledge your life’s milestone moments?
Some milestone moments are celebrated in our society. If we graduate, get married, birth or adopt a child, or witness a significant death, we have a “reason” and structures that normalize ceremony or ritual.
Outside of these sanctioned moments, many of our most personally significant life events – transitions of our own making or that required huge effort with little reward – go unnoticed or get overlooked.
Ritual is magic, but it’s not magical thinking. Meaning, completing a ritual isn’t going to make hard, difficult, or uncomfortable feelings, emotions, experiences, or relationships disappear. A ritual can be a catalyst towards more capacity, resilience, connection to self and others, choice, or abundance, but it is not a “cure” for the hard stuff or a guarantee of change.
Milestone moments, transitions, or journeys can include:
Career change
Coming out | living out
Gender transition
Menarche
Passing a huge exam or qualifying for professional licensing
Launching your…
Kid off to college or kindergarten
Death of a beloved human or pet
Start or end of a learning, personal, or professional journey or program
Meeting a savings goal or paying off significant debt
Moving to a new home, city, region, or country
Ending a friendship, marriage, or partnership
Becoming a parent, sibling, aunt, or uncle
Spiritual, behavioral, or addiction recovery or sobriety milestones
Releasing a long-held idea, relationship, or pattern to make room for something new to emerge
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You are worthy of the support you need to navigate life’s WTF moments.
Does this sound familiar: “Oh shit, my life is changing really fast, and I don’t know what to do!”
One of my superpowers is helping people repurpose their talents and skills, reconnect with the support in their lives, and plan for what comes next.
I’m here to help you name all the possibilities, get plans A-B-C in order, identify options when hurdles arise, and consider your order of operations so that taking the following action is possible.
The basic components of the scaffolding process include:
Listening – You talk at me. I capture what I’m hearing about what’s true for you right now.
Visualizing – We imagine what success looks and feels like.
Prioritizing – We talk about what needs to happen, why it’s important, and by when.
Planning – We plan for the possibilities, including what might go sideways or the hurdles you expect to face.
Identifying – I help you identify the people, resources, skills, and talents that will be your primary supports moving forward.
Reflecting and correcting – I reflect on what I heard. Let me know if I’ve captured what feels most significant about this moment or phase.
Accountability – You take bite-sized actions, and I help you stay accountable.
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Expert support to move together, act on purpose.
Facilitation is the art and science of moving a group of people toward a common purpose, goal, or outcome, and it’s one of my superpowers!
As a facilitator, my role is to shape and guide the process so that participants can show up as their most creative and authentic selves. For over 20 years, I have facilitated large, complex change initiatives with hundreds of people working to achieve large-scale collective impact, as well as small, intimate team sessions focused on a single goal.
I approach facilitation with grounded humility – I trust the wisdom and expertise of participants, and I trust my wisdom and expertise to guide a process effectively.
My experience includes facilitating:
Community groups
Organizational leaders across multiple disciplines and industries.
Employee groups
Folks with disabilities
Teenagers and young adults
