What Is Trauma?: The term trauma is used to describe an event, series of events, or set of circumstances that is experienced as physically or emotionally harmful or life-threatening, overwhelms one’s ability to cope, and has adverse effects on a person’s mental, physical, social, emotional, or spiritual well-being (SAMHSA, 2014) *

Trauma can alter the perception a person has of themself, others, and the world at large. They can doubt their own worth, have difficulty trusting or connecting with others, and have a general distrust of the world itself. This altered perception can limit a person's ability to be, do, and have.

Almost everyone has experienced trauma of some kind just in varying degrees of intensity. Trying to empower clients to succeed without knowing how to address the trauma that unconsciously controls their perception can hinder or halt progress. Knowing how to help clients resolve their trauma gives them access to a wealth of untapped potential and restores their innate ability to make healthy choices for themselves.

It's essential as a coach to also know how not to RETRAUMATIZE our clients. The unconscious emotional and mental conditions of our clients cannot be forced into submission or ignored when attempting to improve performance, restore relationships, or achieve specific goals.

Impact of Chronic Childhood Trauma *

• Smaller brain size and structures
• Difficulty identifying, expressing, and managing feelings
• Extreme emotional responses, ranging from anxiety and anger to feeling numb and disconnected
• Increased behavioral issues and risk-taking behaviors, such as self-harm and substance use
• Difficulty trusting others and forming healthy relationships
• Low self-esteem and poor self-image
• Difficulty with attention, learning, and memory
• Increased learning difficulties, referrals to special education, and likelihood of failing a grade
• More frequent suspensions, expulsions, and time out of class
• Increased risk for mental and physical health issues
  Increased risk for system involvement

What You'll Learn and Be Trained In:

• The neuroscience of trauma
• Specific techniques and approaches for how to help clients break free from the effects of trauma
• The opportunity to experience the tools at work in yourself as well as effectively apply it to others.
• Trauma Informed Care

What Is The Shadow?: The "shadow" refers to those parts of our being that we reject, dismiss, or are deeply ashamed of and want no one to know about.

These hidden and unwanted aspects of our being show up in how we react to the world we perceive. If we once felt inferior or weak and then felt ashamed of that or were made fun of for it, we may come to hate when we see others experiencing weakness.

Basically, anything we disown about ourselves, we will see as "wrong" in others. Makes sense right? If we hate something we once felt, we may hate it in others.

We also tend to attract or find ourselves with people, events, or situations that reflect our shadow to us. The more we resist what we see "out there", the more we will resist that part of ourself.

Acceptance of these shadow parts is the key to integration, but since we have forcefully hidden and suppressed them for so many years, it isn't easy (without professional support) to access the shadow and bring acceptance to those parts.

What You'll Learn and Be Trained In:

ICA trains you in simple, gentle, and highly effective ways to support your clients in reclaiming these unwanted aspects of their being. This helps dissolve the forces of conflict within which results in a deep sense of peace, deeper intimacy in relationships, and improved performance in work and others areas of life.

Essentially, Shadow Integration is a reduction of resistance and leads to a realization of the true SELF.

What Is Performance?:

1. the action or process of carrying out or accomplishing an action, task, or function.
2. an action, task, or operation, seen in terms of how successfully it was performed.
3. the capabilities of a machine, vehicle, or product, especially when observed under particular conditions.

Performance is the term we use to describe the quality and effectiveness of a human beings activity in relation to a particular goal or outcome. Optimizing performance is a major and one of the most fundamental factors of coaching.

Athletes have coaches to help them improve their performance. Performance optimization is typically a focus on skill building, repetition, and physiological factors like diet, exercise, and sleep.

Though all of these are important,there is a more fundamental mechanism at work behind any person's performance and that is a person's PERCEPTION.

There are certain Principles of Performance that when understood, can help you or your clients radically alter their ability to achieve success in ALL areas you bring attention to.

The first principle is "PERFORMANCE is a result of PERCEPTION". No human being acts apart from how they perceive a situation. Perception includes all the unconscious thoughts, emotions, and feelings & sensations of the body. It's automatic and until we learn how to observe this phenomenon and alter it, lasting behavior change is nearly impossible.

What You'll Learn and Be Trained In: 

ICA will teach you all the Principles of Performance and how to apply them in your own life and your client's inside of 4 Spheres: Body, Being, Business, and Bonds

You will have quarterly goals and use the Principles of Performance with regular coaching to transform and improve your life and coach both your Power Partners and your clients.

What Is Self Realization?: Who or what are YOU really? Are you your memories? Are you your thoughts? Are you your emotions? Are you the feelings & sensations in the body? Are you the activity you do? Are you the body?

Most of us have come to believe we are a "self" that is comprised of various thoughts, emotions, feelings & sensations, activities, and memories of the past. We may fail to realize how limited this view is and that all of these things have a finite or temporal nature to them, and so, we fear dying because to die means to lose what we have identified with so strongly.

But what if you could directly experience the TRUTH of WHAT YOU ARE apart from those limited perspectives? What if you could experience the source and substance of life itself and realize you ARE that?

Inner Coaching makes that possible. Self-Realization is NOT a set of beliefs you must hold. It is a DIRECT EXPERIENCE of that which you truly are.

A primary aim of Inner Coaching is help our clients have this experience for themselves which then frees them from identification with the fictional self that appears so limited and suffers so easily.

What You Will Learn and Be Trained In:

ICA will give you regular opportunities to experience your limitless SELF that you may be grounded in pure being and awareness and then capable of supporting your clients in rapidly coming into this realization for themselves. 

This experience then allows a clear perspective from which problems, challenges, and even trauma can be resolved gently, with great efficiency, and ultimately.

What Is Somatic Awareness?: "Soma" means body. Somatic Awareness is awareness of the body, but not just that we have a body with various parts. It means becoming aware of the subtler dimensions of sensation within that become the keys to clearing reactive forces, integrating shadows, healing trauma, creating greater intimacy in relationships, optimizing performance, and so much more.

Due to the many painful experiences we have in life that are felt IN THE BODY, we often develop a capacity to "numb out" and "turn off" our awareness to the many sensations that are occuring within. This lack of sensitivity can result in many health issues, recurring patterns of conflict, stress, anxiety, chronic depression, addictive tendencies, and a general dissatisfaction with life.

When it comes to healing trauma, the body is our access to those particular neurological, biochemical, and physiological effects and conditions that resulted from the traumatic event and negatively affect our life quality.

What Your Learn and Be Trained In:

• Ways to gently become aware of the bodies subtler sensations and how to use them to create internal relief and discharge reactive forces.
• How to help yourself and clients resolve traumatic events gently and completely through Somatic Awareness.
• How to self-regulate and co-regulate your nervous system and support clients in doing the same.

What Is Attachment Theory?: Attachment Theory reveals how needs met or unmet and to what degree cause us to develop what’s called an Attachment Style, or the degree to which we will engage with another emotionally, how we may go about it, and how we manage our own emotions.

Attachment Styles are the classifications researchers gave to describe the degree to which a person will "attach" to another.

There are 4 Attachment Styles:

• Secure Attachment
• Anxious Attachment
• Avoidant Attachment
• Disorganized Attachment

What You'll Learn and Be Trained In:

• You'll  identify where you are limited in your ability to engage, relate with, and show empathy for others
• How you can improve your most intimate relationships and that of your clients
• Ways to heal your relationship to your parents and support your clients in doing the same
• You will be able to support those you lead in overcoming their own attachment trauma
• Be able to help parents better understand, reais, and reconnect with their children

What Is Relationship Coaching?: The ability to support couples, parents & children, team members, and families to overcome communication breakdowns, solve problems, and achieve common goals.

All of the principles and tools or Inner Coaching will provide you will powerful skills that can help relationships of all kinds. 

What You Will Learn & Be Trained In:

• How to assist couples in achieving effective communication (listening & speaking) that leads to understanding
• How to help any relationship "speak the unspoken" and create space for authentic, vulnerable, and intimate relating
• How to repair a relationship after one or more sides have committed an overt act
• Non-verbal exercises and activities that restore connection, love, and intimacy in relationships
• The ability to train your clients to support one another with highly effective communication and co-regulating practices
• Assist multiple people in completing the past painful and destructive interactions
• How practice and support clients in Non-Violent Communication
• much much more.

Ontology means the study of being. Ontological Coaching is a particular approach to coaching that addresses the beingness of human being and has a particular focus in 3 areas of a persons experience.

• Language & Linguistics
• Emotions
• Somatics

Language & Linguistics refers to the ways a person speaks, makes requests, declarations, and IS their word. It is understood that language can open up an entirely new realm of possibilities rather than be used as a means of describing events and objects. Language can create new futures and transform the perceptions and conclusions of the past.

Emotions are an integral part of the human experience and the expression of being itself. Emotional intelligence is key to moving past unconscious limitations, sharing oneself authentically, and altering one's perception and possibilities.

Somatics refer to the body feelings & sensations as well as the body language of a person. Bringing attention to this realm can further expand what's possible for clients by freeing them from the root cause of various reactive forces, empowering them to be more expressive and alive, and taking massive action to get extraordinary results.

What Is Success & Achievement Coaching?:

You and your clients want to succeed and achieve more in many areas of your lives. Through Inner Coaching, you and your clients will breakthrough the unconscious blocks in mind, emotion, and body releasing trapped potential and Life Force. This newly available power is seeking a creative outlet and through Success & Achievement Coaching, you'll be equipped to help them strategically plan and manage their projects to achieve their bigger goals.

What You'll Learn and Be Trained In:

• You will learn how to use Strategic Planning and Project Management tools used by teams, organizations, and businesses that work equally well for individuals and families. You can get paid $1000 or more for a  3 hour session to help small or large businesses with these powerful tools. My clients have loved the clarity and direction they gain.
• Show your clients how to clearly define their Goal, Purpose, Outcomes, and Actions that all follow a precise form of logic to help ensure success and minimize risk and failure.
• Learn how to continually help your clients clear breakdowns on their way to success.

What Is Core Communication?: Communicating in a non-violent, self-revealing, authentic, and connecting way that leads to great degrees of SELF-Realization and intimacy with others.

Core Communication is a skill and practice that gives us new distinctions and abilities to speak and listen to others with compassion, confidence, and connection. It is responsible communication and can eliminate conflict within a relationship, free you to be your most authentic self, practice self-empathy rather than self-sacrifice, and provide an access to getting your  universal needs met in new and creative ways.

Core Communication is built upon a wide range of communication principles and practices all pieced together and optimized to rapidly evolve our communication skills and habits. The distinctions and tools presented are designed to lead us into a relationship with our own center or “core” of power, responsibility, and self-knowledge. This then leads to learning how to speak and listen from this core creating deep connection and understanding with yourself and others.

What You'll Learn and Be Trained In:

Note: All of the items below apply to you and will be ways you support your clients.

• The difference between Life Connecting & Life Alienating language
• How to receive others with empathy and help your clients do the same
• How to engage others with self-empathy
• How to express authentically
• The difference between Observation & Evaluation
• The difference between Feelings & Interpretations
• The difference between Needs & The Strategies for Meeting Them
• How to turn Complaints into Requests
• 12 Competencies of Core Communication
• 10 Truth Skills