EP 67: Katie Hendricks on The Art of Coaching

Katie Hendricks is one of the pioneers in the field of transformational coaching and somatic awareness. Katie joins us as the fourth guest in this series dedicated to exploring the art of coaching and brings decades of wisdom and experience to the podcast. This episode is fantastic for anyone who is a coach, therapist, facilitator or people oriented leader. Katie brings her intuitive wisdom and bodily awareness to the episode which are superpowers to how Katie sees the world. We cover the world of whole body learning and how the loop of awareness is a powerful presencing technique for coaches. 

We explore:

• What and who shaped Katie growing up
• The power of movement and bodily awareness, or "whole body learning" as Katie names it.
• Katie shares how she challenged academic environments growing up and how she ended up shaping the world of mind body realms 
• How dance movement therapy was born out of a desire to follow the wisdom and insight of the body. 
• Katie and Elisa explored the power of presence and essence pacing as a tool for awareness and connection.
• Katie talks about the use of "presence, connect, play" and how she uses everyday moments to be connected and alive with others. 
• Katie discusses how we create and interact with "the field" of energy all around us. And, how creativity is born out of conscious awareness and how it's accessible to move through us if we are in connection with it. 
• Katie defines and explores the power of a core coaching/facilitating tool, the loop of awareness. 
• Katie encourages coaches to "be with and go with" clients on the level of essence and energy. 
• The benefits of the loop of awareness for the coach, the session and as a way to prevent burn out. 
• Katie helps the listener orient to the art of coaching very much being about both the coach and client in shared space. That the coaches presence as a transmission contributes to the experience of the client. 
• Katie describers herself as a "human engineer". 
• How play is the most effective way to get out of drama/reactivity - using sound and movement to bring the issue to life 
• Loving with a spine: Katie shares more of what she means to love with a spine, to be in her own energetic integrity. 
• Katie describes a love for the word, imbue, as a sense of soaking into the ground, a deeper and more felt sense of presence. 
• Katie shares more of the impact that contempt and fear have on people's relationships and presence. 
• Katie explores how she experiences completion as "a signal on the horizon", then describe completion as "an exhale." 

To learn more about the work of Katie Hendricks and The Hendricks Institute click here. 

To learn more about "Essence Pacing" click here. 

If you are a leader, business owner, entrepreneur looking to deepen your leadership capacity, step into embodied leadership for the sake of what is most important to you - schedule time with me at www.elisamaryhaggarty.com 

Next up on The Art of Coaching is Deb Katz.