227 - Annemiek van Helsdingen: Soul-Based Coaching
Dec 4, 2024
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Annemiek van Helsdingen, a Master Coach and founder of the Academy for Soul-Based Coaching, dives into the transformative realm of soul-based coaching. She discusses the Clean Language method and the use of metaphor to spark personal insight and change. The conversation highlights how clients can tap into deep spiritual resources for transformation, emphasizing embodied awareness and relational dynamics. Annemiek also shares her journey that led to this unique coaching approach, encouraging a magical, non-linear path to growth and healing.
Soul-based coaching emphasizes the importance of metaphors in facilitating organic change by allowing clients to explore their innermost thoughts without coach interference.
The Clean Language method encourages a deep connection to one's soul, using embodied experiences to navigate internal resources and foster transformation.
Recognizing and engaging with metaphors in everyday life enhances self-awareness and personal growth by revealing how language shapes our perceptions and experiences.
Deep dives
Introduction to Soul-Based Coaching
Soul-based coaching leverages an embodied approach that utilizes metaphor to explore deeper dimensions of human experience. This coaching style is influenced by the clean language movement, which encourages clients to express their innermost thoughts without the interference of the coach's interpretations. By focusing on the metaphors that arise during sessions, clients can tap into a broader field of knowing, allowing for organic change to take place. This method is a shift away from traditional agendas, promoting a deeper connection to one's soul and innate resources.
The Power of Metaphor
Metaphors play a central role in how individuals make sense of their lives, functioning as living expressions of experiences that catalyze transformation. Through clean language questioning, clients are invited to explore their metaphors, which leads to a profound understanding of their emotional states and desires. The dynamic interplay between metaphors creates a space for change, as clients identify what is not working and envision new possibilities. Engaging with these metaphors allows for a shift in perception, leading to newfound insights and pathways for action.
Embodiment and Transformation
Embodiment is crucial in soul-based coaching, as it involves physically experiencing metaphors and their associated emotions. Each metaphor acts like a zip file, containing rich, layered meanings that resonate with the client's body and psyche. The process of working with these metaphors leads to a visceral reconnecting with the self, influencing how clients perceive and engage with their realities. As clients navigate their metaphors in a session, they become more attuned to their internal experiences, enabling sustainable transformations.
Inclusion of Parts and Systems
The process recognizes and welcomes various parts and experiences of clients, understanding that these elements serve important roles in their coping mechanisms. By allowing parts, such as fears or protective voices, to express themselves in metaphoric form, the coach invites a respectful and inclusive dialogue within the client’s system. This approach diminishes the rigid boundaries of traditional coaching, as it emphasizes co-creation and responsiveness to what arises in each session. As clients explore these dynamics, they can dismantle limiting narratives and embrace a more expansive sense of self.
Recognizing Metaphors in Daily Life
Learning to recognize metaphors in everyday life can enhance personal growth and self-awareness. One effective exercise involves identifying a cherished quality within oneself and exploring it through metaphorical imagery, facilitating deeper exploration of one's attributes. Further, noticing the metaphors used by others, especially in public discourse, reveals the powerful influence of language and narrative in shaping perceptions and experiences. Regularly engaging with metaphors helps individuals cultivate a rich, embodied understanding of themselves and their potential.
In this conversation with Annemiek van Helsdingen we explore the realm of soul-based coaching and tapping into the wider field of knowing, the Clean Language method, using metaphor for change, the relational primacy of life and fostering embodied systemic awareness.
Annemiek van Helsdingen is a Master Coach and long time coach educator with 25 years of experience. With the Academy for Soul-based Coaching she and her global team help coaches, therapists and leaders develop coaching skills that invite deep soul-based change with very practical results. Think: spiritual midwives that help people make changes that are led by their soul-knowing, instead of taking on outside perspectives from a coach’s model or by copying others. It is particularly powerful because it helps people connect to resources from the universal field, outside our current social paradigm. Her work has since rippled out to over thousands of students and coaching clients, in over 25 countries.
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