What does it take to be confident?

The past month I’ve been buried in books reading literature on somatic coaching and leadership. Not far off from what I would normally read however with the intention of a research question to understand how somatic coaching influences leaders’ performance. While focusing on the practice of somatic awareness, I’ve discovered that it enhances well-being, resilience, and relationships while becoming more awake to the reactions and choices we’re making (Amanda Blake). We all may have known this intuitively, and once it’s been backed by research it takes confidence to a whole new level.

How does one build deeper confidence? We can take a look at the mindfulness research by Jon Kabat-Zinn. He is influential in coming off autopilot. He shares that mindfulness is a practice of being more in touch with our fullness through the process of becoming aware of our surroundings, conversations, experiences and way of being. After many conversations with clients about imposter syndrome, I’ve explored working with them on confidence. One take on imposter syndrome is lacking the confidence to be where you are, to show up as you are and to pretend to know what you know. However, it may be time to say “Hey, I’ve never done this before” or “Bear with me, this is new”. Why do we assume we’re going to be great at everything if we haven’t learned to do it or spent hours trying?? It takes 10,000 to master something, why after one hour do we quit? I see this with my kids and similar to adults, we expect so much of ourselves and have little patience for failure.

All this to say, I want you to know that I’m offering a course for building your skills as a facilitator. The Facilitator Lab focuses on 10 key principles for any facilitator gig. You don’t want to miss the opportunity to learn and grow in a safe and exploratory environment. This is so much more than Facilitation skills, this is confidence camp.

Everyone is a leader and will be called to facilitate sometime in their lives. Developing ways that leaders can practice the “being” rather than the “doing” results in leaders being resilient, resourceful, and capable of inclusive and collaborative relationships. Who doesn’t want that? In studying somatic coaching and leadership, I came across the concept of Embodied Leadership Development. This is a holistic approach where leaders learn how to expand awareness, lead authentically and more aligned with needs and intentions (Brendel, W., & Bennett, C. 2016). We will explore how we show up, lead, facilitate and are being in this course and I’m excited to embark on this growth journey with you!

Check the course out here: https://www.thecorkercollective.com/workshops

You can also work with me here: https://www.thecorkercollective.com/coaching

More on this research topic coming this year!

Kindly, Cecily