Somatic Coaching for Men

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As you set out on your journey, I offer a compass for helping you navigate to your true north. Ican help you define your path, stay on track, and move forward to your best self.

Is coaching right for you?

I believe almost anyone can benefit from coaching, regardless of current challenges or level of success. After all, we could all use someone to hear us out and hold us accountable. So what can you expect from coaching sessions with me? After our work together you will:

• Be better equipped to "get out of your head" and down-regulate your nervous system
• Improve your somatic (body) connection
• Identify and more readily connect with your emotions for better understanding and control
• Acquire tools to increase your self-confidence, self-forgiveness, and self-love
• Learn skills to improve your interpersonal connection and love for others 

How does it work?

The work starts by creating a safe space. Each session begins with a grounding meditation and maintains a baseline of relaxation throughout. I use a bottom-up approach with an emphasis on somatic coaching. This helps you forge a deeper connection with your total experience — your bodily sensations, emotions, and subconscious. In this state, you are better able to discover your truths and address past wounds. 

What is Somatic Coaching?

Somatic coaching simply means that you and I will focus on your body.  As men, we have more often than not been trained to use our minds to analyze, problem solve, and think our way through life. This creates a disconnect between our felt experience and our understood experience. Spending more time in our heads helps us to be effective performers and problem solvers, but typically also point us towards stress, anxiety, and difficulty managing our emotions. Without anyone modeling how to connect and express our felt experience, we tend to live strictly in the linear and logical world of understanding, and never allow our bodies the chance to process and release how we feel in the moment. 

With 1-on-1 somatic coaching, I work with men to re-establish connection to their felt experience. I focus on being mindful of your felt experience and what it's telling us, and allow the body to lead. Once this connection is established, I work using those tools to process what comes up and what feels like is holding you back from attaining your higher self. I do not try to problem solve or "fix" your experience. Instead, I track and help maintain your felt connection and lead you to a place that has the answers to your questions. Typically there is an abundance of fear and doubt involved as what is discovered with these coaching sessions is not always rational or logical, and fear around much in life leads to a freeze response. I will help you feel comfortable in the face of fear. Just as we discovered for ourselves in our own ways that when we stop trying to control what happens, we make space for what already wants to happen.

I work in 60- or 90-minute weekly sessions where I ask three things from you: 

• Show up on time and prepared to work
• Allow yourself to be paused or interrupted as we work
• Commit and be held accountable to a weekly "stretch" — a task or goal that requires you to put the work into practice

Your privacy helps create the safe space.

From start to stop, you sessions with me are strictly confidential. If I take notes or ask to record your session, this is simply to maintain focus and trajectory toward your goals. All notes remain private, and I will never record your session without your permission.

I am a certified coach and facilitator.

I am a graduate of the EVRYMAN Foundations Training program and am an EVRYMAN-certified facilitator and coach. I am currently pursuing Internal Family Systems circle-level training through the IFS Institute to become an IFS-Informed practitioner. 

Drop me a line to learn more!

If you're not sure, have questions, or you'd like to get more information about working with me, just send me an email.

Somatic coaching with Ettore Toppi is offered through an arrangement with Authenticity Road, Inc.