The Team Coaching Zone Podcast: Coaching | Teams | Leadership 093: Dr. Carmela Bennett: Moving from Transactional to Transformational: Integrating Embodiment Theory and Practices into Leadership and Team Coaching
How can integrating embodiment approaches supercharge your leadership and team coaching practice? Is there any science behind somatic practices? Is embodiment the missing key to moving from transactional to transformational leadership and teams?
Tune in to this week’s episode of the Team Coaching Zone podcast where host Dr. Krister Lowe explores these and other compelling topics with featured guest Dr. Carmela Bennett—an executive leadership coach and consultant and leadership faculty member at Columbia University.
In this episode Dr. Bennett shares her journey from an early childhood epiphany while watching the Nutcracker, to her sojourn into various forms of dance, to becoming a behavioral health therapist, to becoming an Aikido practitioner, to pursuing a doctorate in body-based leadership development and coaching, and to becoming a thought leader, teacher and practitioner in embodiment coaching and consulting. Specific themes explored in the podcast include:
- How awareness is helpful but often insufficient to manifest change
- Integrating “being and doing”
- Positioning somatic and embodiment approaches in the marketplace
- Ways the body responds to situations
- The science behind somatic approaches
- Mindfulness and partnership practices
- Incorporating the “neck down” in leadership development in addition to the “head”
- Stories and tips for how to apply embodiment practices in one-to-one and team coaching
- Resources for getting started in incorporating embodiment into your coaching practice
- And more!
Tune in today to this episode of the Team Coaching Zone podcast and let Dr. Carmela Bennett help you move your coaching from the transactional to the transformational! This is an episode that you will surely not want to miss!