Here's a report on embodied training from the recent Authentic Leadership in Action course in Amsterdam. Rather jealous I didn't make it in fact :-(
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"The module I’m taking here is Wendy Palmer’s Embodied Leadership. It is extremely powerful work - Conscious Embodiment Using physical exercises, we are exploring reactive patterns – ways that our personality or ego like things done. Just noticing. So for instance, when in an exercise a partner pushes me, I automatically fall back, shoulders tighten. I’m off-centre, trying to negate the conflict. And then, Wendy coaches us through a four-part centering exercise – breathing out, we ground ourselves and feel ourselves becoming more upright and stable. Our arms move forward and out, fingers outstretched. In that minute it takes, we transform. We are no longer dependent on the other to be centered – what other people do or don’t do doesn’t dictate our actions. So while in work or home we may not be physically pushed – we may find ourselves triggered. And doing this, can enable us to recover to our centre."
Integration Training is one of the few training providers of embodied work in the UK.
