Embodied Intelligence and Presence: A Gestalt Approach to Coming to Your Senses

Join a herd of horses within the wonder of nature to deepen your understanding of embodied presence and tapping into the resource of your body intelligence to be more aware of self and others and to expand your range of compassion, resiliency and inner knowing. This highly experiential workshop integrates a Gestalt approach to embodied awareness as we “come to our senses” to navigate challenge and change and to collectively create a better world for all.

Embodied Presence is the capacity to use our senses, to experience your physical self, not simply your thoughts about yourself. It is intelligence, along with cognitive intelligence and emotional intelligence that provides you with a clearer awareness of your inner and outer world.

Embodied Presence is the ability to live and function more fully as an embodied being by physically sensing, registering, and managing inner experience and outer experience in relation to the surrounding world so as to have greater awareness, range and choice.

Being an embodied presence as a leader, coach, facilitator, manager or educator or simply your loveable self, offers you expanded perspectives and possibilities.

Participants completing this workshop will be able to:

• Deepen your understanding of a Gestalt approach to change cycle of experience: sensation and awareness, mobilization and relational contact, and integration and assimilation through the lens of embodied presence and body intelligence.

• Learn embodied practices to access body intelligence and embodied presence for self-awareness and to support the awareness of the client.

• Apply ICF and clinical competencies within in a Gestalt approach and embodied presence to expand professional practice and competency.

• Strengthen your awareness and ability to be present, resilient as an embodied compassionate presence during chaos, stress and uncertainty guided by horses and nature.

• Differentiate between coaching and therapy.

No horse riding--this is about respectful trustworthy relationship.
We will be outside in nature; masks are not required, but you are welcome to wear them.