We are facing and increasingly complex world,
where just trying to keep up with the pace is no longer serving us. The actions, mindsets, and beliefs we once relied on to get by are becoming more and more obsolete and are actually perpetuating our suffering.
But what if there was a different way?
A way that allowed us to access the deeper intelligence of our human capacity.
An evolutionary wisdom that we all inherently have access to, but must cultivate on purpose.
A way of being that can hold the complexities of life: feeling compassion AND courage, joy AND grief, celebration AND sorrow.
A way of acting and being in the world that is not shaken by pressures, but can transform them in to generative potential.
This way is here, if we choose to cultivate it.
In order to create change that will make sustained impact, thinking alone is not enough. In order to create sustained change we must work at the level of the body to unlearn the old narratives and behaviors that have kept us safe… but are also the very thing holding us back.
“Just because we have an insight that we should do something differently does not mean that we can make that new move - especially when we are under pressure.”
— Staci Haines | Author and Director of Methodology at the Strozzi Institute
This is where somatics comes in…
Somatics returns us back home to understanding - and feeling - that we are one integrated whole, a unified mind-body organized around the principle of interconnectedness. The methodology of somatics approaches change and transformation starting with the body and understands that we are also shaped by our social context: the communities, institutions and social norms that we have been a part of and subject to.
Working with this holistic framework leads to an empowered, generative and transformation experience that opens up new possibilities in life and in leadership, so that you can create the future that you most desire.
“When you’re not satisfied with the way things are… you start being a seeker. Not of somebody else’s truth, but your own.”
- Nowaten (“He who listens”), Potawatomi Elder