Relational Presence: Embodiment Tools for Coaches, Therapists and Spaceholders Evenings

It can also help you to take your work to a deeper level. Each session is one step on that journey. Who is this for? This course is designed for anyone whose work centres around holding space for others. This includes: coaches, therapists, counsellors, mentors, meditation teachers, facilitators, and group leaders. You will particularly benefit if you want to: • Enhance your presence and listening skills for deeper impact. • Integrate embodied techniques into your work with groups and clients. • Go beyond traditional approaches to coaching and facilitation. • Learn to work in a more authentic and embodied way. If you don't fit this description exactly but feel curious — you are warmly welcome. These skills benefit a wide range of people and professions. About this Course This Course is aimed at helping professionals such as coaches, therapists and other space-holders to helps you develop exactly that, through easy to learn, practical embodiment tools. As a result you will feel more resourced in your work, so that you are better able to work with challenging clients. It can also help you to take your client work to a deeper level. Each session is one step on that journey. The course runs in person. There is a parallel course that will run alongside it online on Zoom. More info on that here. It is possible to mix and match between these two courses if needed for scheduling purposes "As complex human beings living in a complex world, we need the precision of both kinds of knowing, the body knows, but it does so in a different way than the mind knows," Eugene Gendlin Both the body and the mind are needed for real change to happen, and this is where focusing comes in. In this Course we will also work with the Relational Field - this 'We Space' between you and the client. Working with this practice, drawing on both Circling Practices and Relational Whole Body Focusing you will no longer feel that you need to leave yourself 'at the door' but you will find ways to bring your full authentic self in service of your client. More info in this video. Course Format • 20 live in person sessions (2 hours each) Tuesdays 1900- 2100 PM (UK Time) • From October 13tth - March 30th • Module 1 Ends on December 15th • Module 2 Starts January 18th • Partner practice between sessions to embed learning • Recordings available, but 90% live attendance per Module is required for certification. Included 1:1 Coaching Support As part of the programme, you’ll also receive: ✅ Optional 15-minute intake call ✅ One 60-minute Focusing session in each module ✅ One 30-minute embodied coaching session in each module ✅ 15-minute closing reflection session ✅ Discounted 1:1 coaching and focusing sessions at 50% off throughout the course ✅ Reflective Practitioner Journal to support your development Certification Upon successful completion, you will receive: • Focusing Skills Certificate ( at the end of Module 2) • CPD Certificate (accredited by the Association for Coaching) You must attend at least 90% of sessions live to gain certification. Course overview MODULE 1 October 13th - December 14th 2026 1900 - 2100 Session 1: Introduction and Context Setting In this opening session, you will discover a theoretical framework drawing on the work of Heinz Kohut and Iain McGilchrist. This framework will support the tools we will explore throughout the training and you will get a taste of the embodied and relational skills that we will be learning during the course. Session 2 Arrival Practices We begin to work with the brain-body and learn a method to help you arrive more fully in your body. This is a starting point for the kind of embodied work we are learning. You will be able to use this practice for yourself, as well as to support clients to become more present, and with a calmer nervous system. Session 3: An Introduction to the Felt Sense In this session you can get into contact with your very own Felt Sense. You will learn to listen to what it has to tell you. This structured approach provides a foundation for the rest of the programme. Session 4: What is Focusing? Focusing Partner Exercises Focusing is the process that Eugene Gendlin created to help anyone access their Felt Sense. In this module, you begin to learn to follow your own Felt Sense and to discover some of the gifts it holds. Session 5: Deepening Listening Skills, Using the Relational Field to Support Your Client Work As a coach, you are probably already a good listener! Yet a big part of this work is what happens because of your good listening presence. In this module, you will hone your listening skills. You will learn how to access the relational field to support your clients even better. Session 6: Being with ‘What is’ and with ‘Not Knowing’ drawing on Focusing As the journey into the Felt Sense deepens, you will learn finer points to allow more to come into your awareness. You will discover the gifts of ‘being with’ and ‘not knowing’. You will learn this for yourself – and later extend this awareness to better support your client. Session 7: Transformational Connections Using Circling Practices This module explores the relational field between self and other. You will discover the power of Circling Practices and Transformational Connections. You will explore sharing your inner experience of being with another person, and the impact they have on you. You will also have the opportunity to receive this special kind of attention from another person. This quality of connection is rare in daily life. Session 8: Working with ‘Parts’ We all have many different parts of us. Although we are whole as a person, different ‘parts’ may show up in different contexts. We will draw on the Felt Sense to discover a unique way to access your own ‘parts’ and to find a way to be with even challenging parts. This can later inform how you work with clients. Session 9: Adaptation Strategies and the Role of Shame Many clients come to us to deal with shame-based adaptation strategies and stress responses, such as ‘people pleasing’ and ‘perfectionism’. These strategies may have been useful once but are usually no longer helpful. In this module, you will discover the Lead Being You Adaptation Styles (which draw on NARM™, the Neuro Affective Relational Model) and learn better ways to deal with unhelpful habits. This knowledge can also inform your client work. Session 10 : Using the Felt Sense: Further Support working with Clients This module helps you integrate your own embodiment with your client work. You will learn how to hold space for a client so that they can have their own Felt Sense experience whilst they work on an issue or topic. This final module also helps integrate the whole programme and to deepen these skills going forward. Module 2 January 19th - March 23rd 1900- 2100 Session 1: Guiding Principles in our work with others. In this session we will recap some of the key elements of accessing the felt sense. We begin to learn and practice key skills to support another person to access their own felts sense. Session 2: .The Practice of Reflection Many people appreciate hearing back words from their own process to support their experience in accessing the felt sense. In this session we will learn what and how to reflect in support of the client. This will be a practice we will come back to throughout the programme. Session 3: Guiding a Session - Starting and Ending This session provides a framework for how a guide can support a client. We will learn to provide a lead in for the client and we will learn to find a good way to support the end of a session.