Using our bodies for strategic decision making. A conversation with Nathan Blair, founder of The Somatic School

Leaders in Conversation with Anni Townend

ABOUT THIS EPISODE –

In this episode I am delighted to be in conversation with Nathan Blair. Nathan is the founder of The Somatic School; dedicated to training people in body-oriented coaching - helping leaders to become more conscious of their own embodied experience in relating to self and others in new ways, including using our bodies for strategic decision making and in leading for the whole.

We delve into 'Why the body?' the embodied experience and the 'felt sense' as part of awakening the senses to being fully present to Sensing and Responding our way forward. We talk about the importance of Resourcing & Regulating, in particular the resourcing dimension of Play, and regulating our nervous system and the power of relationships in helping each other co-regulate, and having a nervous system conscious workplace. We dive into how treating an organisation as a living entity, and leading from a place of being in service are crucial to leadership, now more than ever.

ABOUT NATHAN BLAIR -

Nathan founded The Somatic School in 2018 offering a highly experiential online Body-oriented Coaching Programme, accredited by the International Coaching Federation. For many years Nathan worked in the corporate world leaving to set up his own coaching practice, working as a coach with individual clients, a facilitator of groups and is a qualified Coaching Supervisor.

Click to find out more about Nathan and The Somatic School
Nathan kindly also shared several books and resources here:

• The Mindfulness Prescription for Adult ADHD by Lidia Zykowska
• Intelligence in the Flesh by Guy Claxton
• Tao te Ching by Lao Tzu (translated by Stephen Mitchel)
• Play & Creativity in Psychotherapy by Marks-Tarlow, Solomon and Siegel

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