Coming Back to Center
About
Coming Back to Center is a series of workshops that aims to expand our capacity to move through life from a place of awareness, intentionality and balance. In other words, to improve our ability to be centered while we’re pulled in many directions by the drift of life, making purposeful choices that are aligned with what we care about most rather than reacting automatically and feeling overwhelmed by circumstances.
Our Approach
Our approach is a unique blend of Somatic Coaching – primarily based on the Strozzi Institute methodology of Embodied Learning (see strozziinstitute.com) – Expressive Arts and Horse and Leadership Coaching. This is a holistic approach where concepts are introduced and then experienced through physical practice; the result leads to sustainable transformation through new actions and behaviors that are more aligned with what you care about.
Somatics
Whatever we do as human beings we do in our bodies. The sum total
of our history lives in our body. We are predisposed to act out of the
conditioning of this history. Wherever we are, our bodies and our
history are present. This is so obvious and simple we overlook it. The
human mind is an integral part of the body, but it is only one part. As
we learn to use the intelligence and wisdom of the body we are able to take new sustainable actions which were not available to us before.
Expressive Arts
Expressive Arts uses the five artistic disciplines: dance, drama, music, visual arts, and poetry to help individuals explore themselves through spontaneous discovery. It enables people to understand themselves and their emotions
through art by moving into the creative process. It uses the arts as its basis for discovery and change.
Horses
Working with horses is one of the most direct and rapid ways to build awareness about one’s own enegetic presence and leadership style. Horses respond to clarity of direction, honesty and openness. Horses, without judgment or agenda, can open your eyes to what is working for you and what is not in how you interact with others, approach challenges and strive to achieve goals. They also highlight team dynamics, showing how people coordinate action under pressure.
Location
Coming Back to Center is held at Montebelli, an eco friendly country hotel with over 100 hectares of organic farm where award winning organic wine and extra number of facilities including tennis, swimming pool, spa, and horse activities, and is located approximately 100 Km south of Pisa which is the nearest airport (also served by British Airways and Turkish Airlines).
Upcoming Workshops
