Ignite Coaching Presence to Facilitate
Never Before Imagined Options
Exploring ICF Core Competencies:
Coaching Presence and Creating Awareness
Using the Body-Emotion-Language Model
from Newfield Network, ACTP
By Carol Harris-Fike, PCC, NN Program Coach
2015 ACTO Conference, Orlando, FL
Coaching Presence, ICF Markers*
How do we…
• Partner with the Client?
• Respond to the whole person?
• Explore Energy Shifts?
• Exhibit Curiosity?
*www.coachfederation.org/credential
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Creating Awareness, ICF Markers*
How do we…
• Invite the client to explore the what and the who?
• Share what we notice?
• Use questions, intuitions & observations
to support creation of new learning?
*www.coachfederation.org/credential
2015 ACTO Conference, Orlando, FL
2015 ACTO Conference, Orlando, FL
Shifting the
BodyEmotionLanguage
by Shifting the Body
Disposition
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The Being in Movement
• I am like this.
• You are like this.
• He/she is like this.
• We are like this.
• They are like this.
Mauricio Gonzalez & Ticinco & Newfield Network,
2001
• I am being like this and I could be…
• You are being like this and you could
be…
• We are being like this and we could
be…
• They are being like this and they could
be…
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Centeredness
• Energy balanced in all directions
• Head balanced so no weight
• Eyes soft or closed
• Breathing even; in nose, out mouth
• Slow, regular movement… if at all
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Openness
• Energy down and back
• Soft eyes
• Breathing through mouth
• Half smile, head leaning slightly
• Soft knees, Arms open
• Heart open
• Graceful movement
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Flexibility
• Energy back and up
• Eyes wide open to notice
• Head moving to see &
be curious… but not attach
• Breathing varies
• Light on feet
• Swaying movement
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Stability
• Energy down & forward
• Each foot connecting with the
Earth
• Balanced energy rising from
Earth into all of the body
• Breathing even
• Slow even movement
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Resolution
• Energy forward & up
• Eyes fixed on “goal”
• One foot in front ready to go
• Arms bent and in front
• Breath quick and even
• Quick forward movement
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2015 ACTO Conference, Orlando, FL
Centeredness Expressed
OR
Mellow with no
movement
All is perfect in this
moment… just as it is
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Openness Expressed
OR
OR
Totally buy the story
Acceptance & Trust
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Flexibility Expressed
No focus or possibility
OR
Curiosity
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Stability Expressed
OR
Totally In Charge
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Resolution Expressed
OR
Commitment with Action
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Leading
How might you use the B-E-L Model?
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Ignite Coaching Presence to Create Awareness
Handouts Available from Carol Harris-Fike, PCC &
Newfield Network
B-E-L Model ™
Chart of Body Work™
Bibliography
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