A 12-Week LIVE Online Course
With Strozzi Institute Teachers
Staci K. Haines & Maggie Williams
With Strozzi Institute Teachers
Staci K. Haines & Maggie Williams
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Starts Tuesday, May 25 at 5:00 pm Pacific
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What Does it Feel Like to Truly Transform?
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Thriving in Change: Somatic Practices to Transform Old Patterns, Embody Your Vision & Navigate Complexity
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Embody the somatic practices you’ll need to stay centered and purpose-driven no matter what life brings.
Connect deeply to what matters most — and be guided through a step-by-step process to align your actions with your vision.
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We’re in a time of accelerated growth and complexity...
We’re being called to co-create a new future together — and we each have a role to play.
Yet, as society opens back up and we we desire to do and be different, our old embodied habits and conditioning are rising to the top.
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It’s this old conditioning that undermines your ability to move forward and flourish as you align your vision, values, and practices.
These habits and stories have grown out of everything from your childhood to current events.
They’re not necessarily even negative — they’re simply survival strategies you’ve developed in response to your environment so you can get your needs met.
Now, in the face of today’s challenges, you’re (understandably) responding to events in a similar way.
And just as you want so badly to move along on your path and experience growth, they’re holding you back.
The good news is, once you understand these deeply embedded habits and stories, you can unwind them — and create new ones as part of an integrated approach that creates lasting transformation in your life… and within the collective.
To move toward a life of vision, embodiment, and action...
Join us for this 12-week LIVE online course (eight classes and four coaching circle sessions) and learn how somatic awareness, somatic opening, and somatic practices intersect to create sustaining change.
Discern what you want for your life and long for most — and design declarations, your visions for the future.
Explore how we all have automatic and intelligent adaptations to the pressures of our lives and the world.
The body learns "yes" — meaning you practice and change toward what you want, not solely away from what you don't want...
Over 12 weeks, you’ll learn about your embodied habits, or Conditioned Tendencies, and explore how to transform those that no longer serve you...
As you’ll discover, this opens choices, allowing you to act toward what you care about, rather than become caught in reaction. You’ll cultivate a practice to embody your values, visions, and changeability.
Through the Strozzi Somatics methodology, you’ll both expand your ability to be present with what is, and purposefully transform toward possibility.
Explore pragmatic, depthful and lasting transformation with Strozzi Somatics — a unique embodied learning approach that fully integrates meditation, martial arts, language for action, somatic psychology, bodywork, and social context.
You’ll learn how to align your vision of who you want to be with embodied practices to help you live out what’s most important to you.
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During this 12-week live online course (formerly known as Embodied Leadership Core), you’ll:
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Discover how to embody the 5 foundations of transformation: somatic awareness, somatic practices, and somatic opening — and how they reside within a social context, landscape & Spirit
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Discover a deeper sense of what matters most to you — and the future you want to build for yourself, your community, and the collective
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More deeply understand the role of embodiment in change, connection, choice, and action
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Receive practices that help you to take action toward that future, and "embody" your declarations
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Discover embodied habits, beliefs, and ways of relating that no longer serve you
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Learn new somatic practices that help you to transform these habits — and take care of your needs from conscious choice
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Discover how to return to center to stay calm and effective — even under mounting pressure
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Increase your ability to inspire trust
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Identify and shift negative and ineffective moods in yourself and others
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Become more present to others and your environment, open to possibilities, and connected to your core values and principles
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And much, much more...
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You ARE The Commitment:
A Journaling Exercise + Movement Practice
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In the 15-minute video clip below, Strozzi lead teacher Staci K. Haines and Strozzi founder Richard Strozzi-Heckler lead you through an exercise and movement practice help you to think through what you’re being called to commit to — so you can build a life that’s true to your core values.
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Live Interactive Q&A Session
with Staci K. Haines
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In the video below, Staci K. Haines leads us through an incredible live Q+A event
where she goes into detail about the upcoming Foundations of Strozzi Somatics online course.
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The videos were excellent. Reading material was light and to the point.
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— Strozzi Graduate
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Start with the Foundations of Strozzi Somatics to transform your life and meet the challenges and hopes of our times.
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During the 12-week Foundations of Strozzi Somatics training, you’ll receive:
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- LIVE Online Training Sessions with lead Strozzi Institute teachers
- Eight Depth Teaching Sessions
- Four 90-minute LIVE Coaching Circles
- Video & Audio Recordings of EVERY Session: Stream in high-quality format to catch up anytime and anywhere — and on any connected device
- Weekly Handouts, Worksheets & Training Materials
- Private Online Community: Access recordings, handouts, and connect with your heart-aligned class community
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Join us to learn the practices you’ll need to help you stay embodied — even under pressure — to live a truly inspired life.
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We are navigating a global pandemic, widespread economic fallout, and needed social transformation toward racial justice...
With practice, you can cultivate a calm, purposeful presence and become open to more possibilities — welcoming more choice into your life and moving from reaction to response.
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You can start to take actions that align with your values and bring you closer to your vision for a future -- even in today’s ever-growing, unpredictable world.
This course empowers you to close the gap between the vision you hold for yourself and how consistently you’re able to live it.
We developed Foundations of Strozzi Somatics for those who want to emerge from this time of disruption with a deep connection to what you really care about and a clear map for how to become who you want to be.
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“The content was rich and thought-provoking. The instructors were extremely versed in the teaching of development and aid of self-transformation."
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— Strozzi Graduate
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The demonstrations were very powerful. They really helped me understand how impactful somatic training is. I also enjoyed doing the practices together.
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— Strozzi Graduate
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Here’s What You’ll Discover During These 12 Powerful Sessions…
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In this 12-week transformational intensive, (formerly known as Embodied Leadership Core) you’ll be guided step-by-step as you learn to cultivate a somatic practice to maintain your inner equilibrium through the stressors of pressure and ambiguity.
LIVE Classes EVERY Week!
Tuesdays at 5:00pm Pacific
This is a rare opportunity to join experienced Strozzi instructors for live for in-depth teachings, interactive training sessions, and practices you can apply right away.
And, don’t worry if you can’t join live — you can catch up anytime! You’ll receive access to streaming video and audio recordings of each session. You can refer to them time and again to capture the teachings and practices at a time and pace that works for your schedule.
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Session 1: The 5 Pillars of Embodied Transformation (May 25)
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5:00-6:30pm Pacific
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Learn the 5 Pillars of embodied transformation. Get connected as a community of people who care about transformation and change for themselves and our world.
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Session 2: Declarations — Changing Toward What Matters to Us (June 1)
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5:00-6:30pm Pacific
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Connect with your vision, values, and the impact you want to have in your life and in the world. Learn why accessing what you care about through your body is so vital.
Coaching Circle Week: Declarations 5:00-6:30pm Pacific (June 7- June 11)
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Session 3: Resilience — Cultivating our Inherent Resilience (June 15)
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5:00-6:30pm Pacific
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Our resilience is inherent, yet when it’s stressed over and over again, our access to it can become limited.
In this session, you’ll learn to find and feel your resilience. You’ll also learn what gets called resilience but isn't.
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Session 4: Fighting For What You Care About (June 22)
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5:00-6:30pm Pacific
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Explore your habitual reactions under pressure. We all have ‘em, and came by them honestly. Our adaptations are embodied and become unconscious ways of being and behaving. Learn to access, work with and change this conditioning.
Coaching Circle Week: Resilience and Conditioned Tendency 5:00-6:30pm Pacific (June 28 - July 2)
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Session 5: Sites of Change – How We Are Shaped (July 6)
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5:00-6:30pm Pacific
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We are shaped by our personal and our social experiences. Explore the many “sites” that shape you and others.
You'll learn that the processes of change at these sites differ but are interconnected. Through this, grow your ability to see and hold greater complexity.
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Session 6: Somatic Opening 1 – Getting to the Roots (July 13)
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5:00-6:30pm Pacific
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What is deeply embodied makes our decisions. Early adaptations and patterns live in our beliefs and in our tissues. Learn how this works, and how we can uproot and transform those that no longer serve us.
Coaching Circle Week: Emotional Autobiography Storytelling 5:00-6:30pm Pacific (July 21)
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Session 7: Somatic Opening 2 – Unfurling (July 27)
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5:00-6:30pm Pacific
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Deepen your ability to hang out in the “disorganized” phase of embodied transformation. We are not our old shape, yet not quite our new one either.
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Session 8: Aligning Our Vision and Practice (August 3)
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5:00-6:30pm Pacific
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Our practices support our vision and values, and visa versa. Discover ongoing practices that help you to embody your declarations, increase your resilience, and work well with pressure and change.
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Interact with lead Strozzi Institute teachers via Streaming Video
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You’ll easily connect with your instructors (and your new global community!) face-to-face via video. Joining them online is easy — just use your phone, tablet, laptop, or desktop computer.
Again, don’t worry if you can’t join live! Complete video and audio recordings will be available for you soon after each session.
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During the 12-week Foundations of Strozzi Somatics training, you’ll receive:
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- LIVE Online Training Sessions
- Eight Depth Teaching Sessions
- Four 90-minute LIVE Coaching Circles
- Video & Audio Recordings of EVERY Session: Stream in high-quality format to catch up anytime and anywhere — and on any connected device
- Weekly Handouts, Worksheets & Training Materials
- Private Online Community: Access recordings, handouts, and connect with your heart-aligned class community
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The facilitation and content were exemplary.
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— Strozzi Graduate
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Registration is Now Closed
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Please explore our in-person course calendar and our online offerings for more opportunities to get involved.
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Your satisfaction is 100% Guaranteed!
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Your satisfaction is 100% Guaranteed. If Foundations of Strozzi Somatics isn’t a great fit for you, for whatever reason — refunds will be issued up until 5 PM Pacific Time on June 1, 2021. This course begins May 25 at 5pm Pacific/ 8pm Eastern.
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Staci K. Haines is a national leader in the field of Somatics, specializing in intersecting personal and social change. She has worked extensively with organizational leaders, including executives, non-profits, and social entrepreneurs. She is a senior teacher at Strozzi Institute and the Director of Methodology, having studied and worked with Strozzi Institute since 1995.
Staci is the co-founder of generative somatics, a multiracial social justice organization bringing somatics to social and environmental justice leaders, organizations, and alliances. She is also the originator of Somatics and Trauma, and leads courses teaching psychologists, social change leaders, and other practitioners to effectively transform the impact of individual and social trauma and violence.
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. She also released the video Healing Sex (SIR Productions 2004). Lastly, Staci is the founder of generationFIVE, a community leadership organization whose mission is to end the sexual abuse of children within five generations.
Staci is the co-founder of generative somatics, a multiracial social justice organization bringing somatics to social and environmental justice leaders, organizations, and alliances. She is also the originator of Somatics and Trauma, and leads courses teaching psychologists, social change leaders, and other practitioners to effectively transform the impact of individual and social trauma and violence.
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. She also released the video Healing Sex (SIR Productions 2004). Lastly, Staci is the founder of generationFIVE, a community leadership organization whose mission is to end the sexual abuse of children within five generations.
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Maggie Williams works as a social justice advocate, lawyer, and somatic coach. She is the co-founder of the Advocacy Institute, which works to transform the legislative and political landscape of New York for justice and dignity.
The Advocacy Institute trains and supports social justice and movement building organizations to lead more effective and efficient legislative campaigns. Before co-founding AI, Maggie worked in the New York State Senate and as an advocate on criminal justice issues. Maggie started studying somatics with Strozzi Institute in August of 2011 and became a certified somatic coach in December of 2012.
Maggie attributes the powerful ways that she has expanded her offer – with individual coaching clients, with the team at the Advocacy Institute, and in her personal life – to the study of somatics.
Since becoming a coach, Maggie has studied with Strozzi’s partner organization, generative somatics, worked with clients one-on-one, led a process to integrate somatics into staff development at the Advocacy Institute, and based core elements of her social justice work on somatic principles. She is excited to join the teaching team and help others to expand their offers in new ways.
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Register Now!
Here’s What You’ll Receive:
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- LIVE Online Training Sessions with lead Strozzi Institute teachers
- Eight Depth Teaching Sessions
- Four 90-minute LIVE Coaching Circles
- Video & Audio Recordings of EVERY Session: Stream in high-quality format to catch up anytime and anywhere — and on any connected device
- Weekly Handouts, Worksheets & Training Materials
- Private Online Community: Access recordings, handouts, and connect with your heart-aligned class community
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Pay in Full
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Your satisfaction is 100% Guaranteed!
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Your satisfaction is 100% Guaranteed. If Foundations of Strozzi Somatics isn’t a great fit for you, for whatever reason — refunds will be issued up until 5 PM Pacific Time on June 1, 2021. This course begins May 25 at 5pm Pacific/ 8pm Eastern.
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Strozzi Somatics
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Strozzi Institute is the creator of embodied transformation—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.
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Over 45 Years of Experience
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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 45 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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Frequently Asked Questions
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Q: What do I do if I am unable to attend the live sessions?
A: If you are unable to attend the live session the video and audio recordings of the live sessions will be made available to you on Thinkific within 24 hours of the live session. Please be sure to watch the recording prior to the next live session to ensure you are current with the progression of the course material.
Q: Do you offer closed captioning or transcripts for your online courses?
A: Yes, to help everyone get the most out of the live and recorded content, we offer live closed captioning and rough transcriptions (AI generated with 90% accuracy) for all of our online workshops.
Q: How long after the course ends will the materials be accessible to me?
A: Course materials will be available to you for one year after the course ends.
Q: How will the course materials be shared with participants?
A: Course Materials are shared on a rolling basis through our online learning platform called Thinkific, with new material released with each live session. Each session’s chapter will start with a Zoom link or recording of the 90-minute live training session and include any supporting readings, handouts, worksheets, and assignments.
Q: Is there anything I have to do to prepare for this course?
A: Yes. We send an email two weeks before the course inviting you to the online learning platform. We ask all participants to review pre-course logistics and materials for the course as well as complete a pre-course student agreement and survey BEFORE the fist live training session.
Q: Can I share the materials and recordings with my friends?
A: No. We ask that you do not share the course materials and content with folks who have not enrolled in the course. Strozzi Institute wants to make the course material accessible to you and we ask that you honor the copyright and student agreement that you sign at the start of the course.
Q: What is the refund/cancellation policy if I decide this course is not for me?
A: Your satisfaction is 100% guaranteed. If Foundations of Strozzi Somatics isn’t a great fit for you, for whatever reason — refunds will be issued up until 5 PM Pacific Time on June 1, 2021.
A: If you are unable to attend the live session the video and audio recordings of the live sessions will be made available to you on Thinkific within 24 hours of the live session. Please be sure to watch the recording prior to the next live session to ensure you are current with the progression of the course material.
Q: Do you offer closed captioning or transcripts for your online courses?
A: Yes, to help everyone get the most out of the live and recorded content, we offer live closed captioning and rough transcriptions (AI generated with 90% accuracy) for all of our online workshops.
Q: How long after the course ends will the materials be accessible to me?
A: Course materials will be available to you for one year after the course ends.
Q: How will the course materials be shared with participants?
A: Course Materials are shared on a rolling basis through our online learning platform called Thinkific, with new material released with each live session. Each session’s chapter will start with a Zoom link or recording of the 90-minute live training session and include any supporting readings, handouts, worksheets, and assignments.
Q: Is there anything I have to do to prepare for this course?
A: Yes. We send an email two weeks before the course inviting you to the online learning platform. We ask all participants to review pre-course logistics and materials for the course as well as complete a pre-course student agreement and survey BEFORE the fist live training session.
Q: Can I share the materials and recordings with my friends?
A: No. We ask that you do not share the course materials and content with folks who have not enrolled in the course. Strozzi Institute wants to make the course material accessible to you and we ask that you honor the copyright and student agreement that you sign at the start of the course.
Q: What is the refund/cancellation policy if I decide this course is not for me?
A: Your satisfaction is 100% guaranteed. If Foundations of Strozzi Somatics isn’t a great fit for you, for whatever reason — refunds will be issued up until 5 PM Pacific Time on June 1, 2021.
