Body-Mind Life Coaching(TM) Specialist Certificate Course:
Using the Body to Deepen Awareness and Forward the Action
Prerequisite: minimum of 30 hours of coach training *
Tuition: $1,190.00 (Early registration discount of $75.00 by January 25, 2008)
Hours : 16 sessions - 90 minutes (24 credits)
Taught by: Lauree E. Moss, Ph.D., CLC, PCC
E-Mail: Lauree@lifecoachtraining.com

This Certificate Course, designed for coaching over the phone or in person, will provide in-depth training for coaches in any niche to enhance and deepen their coaching skills. You will develop expertise in accessing the nonverbal dimension that exists in all interactions and communications.

Using Body-Mind Life Coaching™ tools, coaches will learn ways to work with the powerful messages of the body. It is said that the body never lies. Through habitual ways of thinking, acting and feeling, there is often a disconnection between the mind and body.

The main goal of this course is to teach skills and techniques for working with the fertile ground and wisdom of the body to help bridge the body-mind gap. Additionally, you will gain advanced understanding and practice in the many ways you can uncover, utilize and work with the information from the body.

The materials for the course will acquaint you with the fields of "Somatics" and "Body Therapy," which provide the foundation for Body-Mind Life Coaching™. The instructor has written a 175-page manual, filled with articles, references and specific papers on the Body-Mind Life Coaching™ Process.

The course content will focus on learning how to access the language of the body by paying attention to presence, physical sensations, breath, voice, posture, and unconscious habit patterns. Readings, discussion, class experiments, cases, role-plays, demonstration sessions, personal exploration and buddy work will provide different ways to work with non-verbal content. The techniques of "pausing," "noticing" and "practicing" will be used to create and deepen awareness and forward the action.

In addition, halfway through the training, you will have the opportunity to coach a client who has volunteered to come into the class. Supervision and discussion immediately afterwards provides opportunities for self-assessment to increase awareness and to deepen learning in a safe and supportive environment. Role-plays will also provide opportunities to practice the skills and tools, using a co-coaching training model.

Examples of ways to use the body as an avenue to gain information to shift perspectives, explore possibilities and affirm the rightness of choices will be explored in depth, as you learn how to hone your skills in the last half of the course.

Course Objectives:

• To learn how to bridge the body-mind gap through body awareness and mindfulness experiments.
• To understand the universal application of Body-Mind Life Coaching™ skills in all forms of coaching.
• To understand the importance of breath and various ways to work with breathing in coaching.
• To experiment with different skills and exercises to access the language of the body.
• To understand when and how to use body-mind skills and techniques with clients.
• To learn embodied listening and attunement skills.
• To practice skills through role-plays and the opportunity to coach a volunteer client.
• To develop proficiency in integrating the Body-Mind Life Coaching™ process into your coaching style.

Body-Mind Life Coaching™ Specialist Certificate:
This certificate will provide you with advanced training in the ever-growing and popular fields of Wellness Coaching and Body Focused Coaching. Other coaching specialties, such as, Executive Coaching, Relationship Coaching, Career and Life Transitions Coaching and coach training and mentoring, can be enhanced through developing proficiency in this approach.

Required Manual: ($45.00) is ordered directly from Dr. Lauree Moss. You may contact her at 310-828-0234.

Instructor:
Dr. Lauree E. Moss brings to life coaching over 35 years of experience as a psychotherapist and a teacher of body-mind work. She has been adjunct faculty at the Institute for Life Coach Training for the last several years. For the last 20 years, she has been a core faculty instructor at the Institute of Integrative Body Psychotherapy in Venice, CA., where she teaches psychotherapists, coaches and allied health practitioners how to integrate body, mind, and spirit into their work. Currently her energy and professional interests are focused on life coaching and the integration of body-mind skills into training programs for coaches.

Dr. Moss is a Professional Certified Coach from the International Coaching Federation and a Certified Life Coach and graduate from the Institute for Life Coach Training. Her areas of specialization include health and wellness, relationships, and transitions.

Her company, Cycles of Change Life Coaching, provides personal and executive coaching, training and mentoring. She is a Certified Peoplemap™ System Trainer and also holds certifications in the Wellness Inventory and the Seasons of Change. For more information, you can go to her websites: www.needtotalk.tv/moss.htm, www.body-mindlifecoachinginstitute.com.

Lauree Moss is an incredible coach and teacher, whose background, education and style of teaching is inspiring and motivating. She has a rich history in mind/body work, has brought that framework into coaching, and designed a fantastic course around it, so we coaches can use a mind/body focus with our clients when appropriate. I believe this to be some of the most valuable work I do in my coaching. I have taken two of her mind/body courses and loved them both. - Michelle K. Rios, MA, PCC, Igniting Excellence Coaching