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A Self-paced Certification Pathway

Deepen your authenticity, wisdom, and centered action — as you engage with life’s complexities and refine your skills along your somatic coaching journey.

Along your somatic coach development journey, you’ve created a centered presence that embodies integrity, accountability, and confidence.

You’ve learned to integrate the foundational somatic practices into your coaching.

You’ve hit a ceiling with how far you feel like you can take your clients and need some new skills and practices in your tool belt.

You have been on the coaching path long enough to know there is more to know and you are committed to your continued professional growth and personal embodiment.

 

The Strozzi Institute Methodology

The Advanced Somatic Coaching Certification is for:
  • Certified Strozzi Somatic Coaches who are ready for their next level in their professional somatic coach training
  • Coaches and consultants who see life as it is and as it could be, and are called to bridge the gap for their clients
  • Mission-driven business leaders and high performers seeking greater performance, profit, and impact
  • Social entrepreneurs looking to facilitate change by cultivating more active and vital communities
  • Healers, educators, parents, and other caretakers who need to stay centered as they support others
  • Individuals interested in deepening their own personal transformation
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Program Promises

In the Advanced Somatic Coaching Certification, you’ll:

  • Learn the distinctions and overlap between somatic awareness, somatic practices, and somatic opening. Use all 3 effectively to support your own, and your client’s, transformation.
  • Deepen your capacity to work somatically with a wide diversity of clients, meeting them in their experiences, even when those are not shared by you.
  • Learn and use a variety of somatic conversations, processes, and practices at each stage of the Arc of Transformation.
  • Distinguish when resilience is being used as an “override” or “bypass” to avoid a more pervasive pattern or experience.  Know how to help your client face that work, and use resilience as a true ally. 
  • Integrate somatic bodywork into your client work, as a powerful and direct way to work with somatic opening, and the foundational patterns and strategies for safety, belonging and dignity.
An 18-Month Self-Paced Study Program

Program Pathway

Prerequisites

Completed and certified as a Strozzi Institute Somatic Coach

Completed an additional 100 hours of client coaching since SI certification

Learn more about the Somatic Coaching Certification here.

Here’s What You’ll Receive when you register for Embodied Transformation with Strozzi Somatics:

  • Four days of sessions with Strozzi Institute Lead Somatic Teachers

Receive depth teachings, guided practices, partner work, demonstrations, and interactive small and large group sessions.

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  • Depth Practices & Exercises

In addition to the guided sessions, you’ll receive practices, exercises, and “assignments,” to deepen your experience and skills long after you return home.

Advanced Somatic Coaching Certification
A Self-Paced Certification Pathway
 
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March 10 – October 2, 2022
Petaluma, CA

Successful completion of our Embodied Transformation course is a prerequisite. If you have not completed this course, you can learn more about Embodied Transformation here.

How to Enroll in the Advanced Somatic Coaching Program


Step 1: Fulfill in person the prerequisite and foundational coursework Embodied Transformation, complete and certify in the Strozzi Institute’s Somatic Coaching Certification, and complete an additional 100 hours of client coaching since SI certification. 

Step 2: Complete the Advanced Somatic Coaching Certification Application by clicking here.

Step 3: Schedule your Enrollment Interview with the Director of Enrollment by clicking here

Step 4: Accepted candidates will receive a reply via email with an invitation to join the Coaching Program along with an enrollment-payment link.

2022 Cohort

March 2022 to October 2022

Save $1000 when you register before February 7, 2022

Session 1: March 10 – March 13, 2022
Session 2: April 21 – 24, 2022
Session 3: July 7 – July 10, 2022
Session 4: September 29 – October 2, 2022

Pay In Full

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for $11,950

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8-Pay Plan

8 monthly payments
of $1,493.75

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What students are saying about Strozzi Somatics:

“She presents things with extraordinary clarity…”

“Staci Haines is one of the best teachers I’ve ever encountered. She creates a safe and engaging space in which to explore and learn. And, Staci has a very grounded and warm presence, she presents things with extraordinary clarity, and she responds to inquiries and offers demos with the utmost respect and care. In addition, the content and somatic practices of the course complement each other beautifully and have the power to be transformational.”

— Misty Perez Truedson

 

“There’s no better place to learn & practice these skills than with the Strozzi Institute’s community of teachers and practitioners.”

“The instruction, coaching, and encouragement to be in a community of practice deepened my somatic awareness and continued to support my own embodied change, for the sake of liberation and love with power. I need – we need – this embodied competency to meet this moment. There’s no better place to learn & practice these skills than with the Strozzi Institute’s community of teachers and practitioners.”

— Caitlin Brune

“The masterful instructors were authentic…”

“This class was a godsend for me… The masterful instructors were authentic, making it safe for everyone to show up in whatever mood or place they were in. I learned several practices that are helping me live out my commitments in the world.”

— Rebecca Glenn

“It was dramatically different than anything I had experienced before.”

“We wanted a game changer for accelerating our high performing teams and our leadership team. I’ve worked with a lot of different leadership programs and the Strozzi Institute’s is the one that works. It was dramatically different than anything I had experienced before. It’s their ability to connect the mind, language, action, and the body into sustainable practices. And we were able to see actual true change in a very short amount of time. It deeply resonated with our teams in a meaningful and authentic way.”

 

— John Pershing, SVP HR Ascena Retail Group

 

“The execution and the team has been the most professional I have ever seen.”

“I loved it! It was very profound and subtle at the same time. The execution and the team has been the most professional I have ever seen. Humanity, values, care, love were always at the foreground. I feel humbled and grateful to have been part of this experience.”

— Tania Fichtner, Director at Tajo Consulting (Mexico City, Mexico)

FAQs

Standard Tuition: $10,895

Yes. Successful completion of either our foundational course, Embodied Transformation (formerly Embodied Leadership), certification in Strozzi Institute’s  Somatic Coaching Certification Program, and an additional 100 hours of client coaching since certification in SI coaching program. Please note, ICF certification is not required for this program.

Our coaching programs are open to anyone wishing to work holistically with clients and develop their mastery of Somatic Coaching and embodied leadership

If you have taken either Somatic Bodywork or Somatics Trauma & Resilience in person and since January of 2018, you will be provided an exemption from taking this coursework and your tuition will be adjusted. Please note, if you would like to repeat any of these courses again within parameters of the Advanced Somatic Coaching program, these courses are offered at a discount. Please speak to the Director of Enrollment for more details.

Hours can be submitted directly to ICF for resource development hours. Currently we are not offering any core competency hours through ICF for this program.  We do not offer general continued education units through any other CEC organization.

Complete and certify in the Strozzi Institute’s Somatic Coaching Certification.

Complete an additional 100 hours of client coaching since SI certification. 

Complete the Advanced Somatic Coaching Certification Application by clicking here.

Schedule your Enrollment Interview with the Director of Enrollment by clicking here.

Accepted candidates will receive a reply via email with an invitation to join the Coaching Program along with an enrollment-payment link.

The 3 advanced courses held in person (Somatic Coaching Intensive, Somatic Bodywork Seminar and Somatics, Trauma & Resilience) are offered at the Strozzi Institute dojo (which means “place of training” in traditional Japanese arts) located on a 13-acre ranch in the rolling hills of Petaluma, California.

Organic meals (with vegetarian, vegan, and gluten-free options), sourced and prepared locally, are provided for lunches during all training days. Transportation and lodging are not included. See our recommended lodging options for our Petaluma location here.

At this time, the Somatic Coaching Certification Program is only available in English.

The Strozzi Institute scholarship program is a tuition reduction program with the highest amount awarded being a 40- 50% discount.

It is highly competitive, needs-based, and is focused on being the most effective. Therefore, it is prioritized to support traditionally marginalized communities with regard to race, sexual identity, and socioeconomics.

Scholarship applications can be submitted up until 8 weeks before the course date so please apply early. Applications are reviewed and awarded with the intention to make the biggest impact. Scholarship awards will be communicated via email 1 week after the close of the application process. Awards can not be used in conjunction with other discount offers or transferred to other coursework.

Click here to apply for a Scholarship.

Read our Covid Policy here.

 Read our Cancellation Policy here.

Still Have Questions?

Chat with Denise M. Maes, Director of Enrollment, to receive guidance about

enrollment into Strozzi Institute’s courses.

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Meet Your Teachers

Richard Strozzi-Heckler, PhD – Founder

Richard Strozzi-Heckler, PhD is founder of Strozzi Institute. He has spent over four decades researching, developing, and teaching leadership and effective team building to business leaders, executive managers, teams from Fortune 500 companies, NGOs, technology start-ups, non-profits, the U.S. government, and military.

Richard is the author of eight books focused on embodied leadership and somatics, including The Leadership Dojo, In Search of the Warrior Spirit, The Anatomy of Change, Holding the Center, and The Art of Somatic Coaching: Embodying Skillful Action, Wisdom, and Compassion.

He was named one of the Top 50 Executive Coaches in The Art and Practice of Leadership Coaching, and in Profiles in Coaching. He is the co-founder of the Mideast Aikido Project (MAP), which brings together Palestinians and Israelis through the practice of Aikido.

Richard is an advisor to Navy Seal Team One and Team Six. From 2002 to 2007 he was an advisor to NATO and the Supreme Allied Commander of Europe (SACEUR) General Jim Jones, formally the National Security Advisor.

Richard has a PhD in Psychology and is a seventh degree black belt in the martial art of Aikido.

Staci K. Haines – Senior Teacher

Staci K. Haines is a national leader in the field of Somatics, specializing in intersecting personal and social change. Staci is the co-founder of generative somatics, a multiracial social justice organization bringing somatics to social and climate justice leaders and organizations. She specializes in Somatics and Trauma, and leads programs for healers, therapists, and social change leaders to transform the impact of individual and social trauma and violence. Her new book The Politics of Trauma: Somatics, Healing and Social Justice (North Atlantic Press 2019) is based on that work.

Staci is a senior teacher at Strozzi Institute and the Director of Methodology, having studied and worked with Strozzi Institute since 1995. She has worked extensively with organizational leaders, including corporate executives, non-profits, and social entrepreneurs.

Staci is the author of The Politics of Trauma: Somatics, Healing and Social Justice (North Atlantic Press 2019) and Healing Sex: A Mind Body Approach to Healing Sexual Trauma (Cleis 1999, 2007). Healing Sex has been nationally recognized and translated into German, Japanese and Spanish. Lastly, Staci is the founder of generationFIVE, a community leadership organization whose mission is to end the sexual abuse of children within five generations. 

For more information visit: www.generativesomatics.org, www.generationFIVE.org and strozziinstitute.com

About Strozzi Institute

Strozzi Institute
Strozzi Institute is the creator of embodied leadership — a unique, neuroscience-based approach that integrates mindfulness, action-oriented communication, martial arts, and generative conflict training to prepare leaders, coaches, and teams to meet today’s biggest challenges.

Over 50 Years of Experience
Our unique and powerful embodied leadership methodology positions us as the leading institution shaping executives, teams, and leaders toward mastery in their business. We have over 50 years of experience in delivering innovative programs to a diversity of organizations around the globe that include Fortune 500, large governmental agencies, small businesses, B-corps, NGOs, sustainable business visionaries, multinational companies, and budding entrepreneurs.

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