Personal Coaching
Hello!
…and welcome to the personal coaching page where you will find information about the coaching I offer. I’ll give a brief overview to start and if you want more of a deep dive into what is behind the work, more information is below.
Coaching is a very broad term, where fundamentally the role of a coach is to provide support in areas that help us move beyond personal limitations. Can you recall a time in your life where you had a coach who encouraged your growth? What I offer is trauma-safe support to expand both practically in life and deepen spiritually. The premise of my work comes from the basic, essential understanding that our innate nature will guide us to wholeness. Through moment-based, precise interventions and the container created in session, patterns rooted on the physiological level can change.
Session-work is particularly supportive for those undergoing:
-chronic stuckness or alienation
-life transitions or period of rapid change
-intensity drawn addictive impulses (I do not work with active substance abuse)
-dis-integration/integration in relationships
-deeper, spiritual unfolding and greater well-being
My aim in working together is for you to experience balanced, lasting changes. Together we build a nest of support that allows expressions (that go far beyond concept or personality) to come forward to be experienced more fully. These key moments are subtle and when highlighted and held in the right type of environment often brings a deeper sense of equanimity for people and a healthier world view. During a session, we could be moving from one area of sparked interest to talking about the weather, for example.
I offer a free 20-30 minute consult. Standard sessions run 60 minutes and I charge on a sliding scale at a rate of $60-90 per hour. Rates in Latin America are $40-60 an hour. I work in person and over video call. Both are effective in their own regard.
Please either use the contact form below or contact me directly for us to schedule. It will be my pleasure to hold a conversation with you.
Science and Testimony
Body, Mind, and Spirit is a Greek concept. In reality, is your brain separate from your body? Many people are beginning to realize that what happens to the body also affects the mind, and what we generate in our mind affects our body. You know what it is like to be stressed. Your thinking becomes more compulsive and as you think more your breathing becomes more shallow, your heart rate increases, you build tension, the cycle continues. These cycles can happen over the course of minutes and in the duration of a lifetime.
The energy of the mind manifests as the state of body. This is something modern medicine is beginning to realize- that sickness in the mind causes sickness in the body. In a massive study of thousands of people with varying degrees of adverse childhood experiences (ACEs), the study concluded that those who experienced higher ACEs scores are far, far more likely to contract seven out of the top ten human killers- heart disease, cancer, Alzheimers, diabetes, etc. What this landmark study clearly indicates is that an adverse psychological experience has a direct long-term effect on a person’s physical health. Simply, our minds and bodies are not separate.
So how is this relevant in the area of post-trauma and addiction growth? These conditions become embedded in our biological make-up. For lasting changes to take place (which is what I am concerned about) we need the ‘biological understanding’. The living, breathing, material body needs the re-routing of unpleasant, negatively reinforcing, physiological patterning.. This a radical departure from what therapy has taught us. Therapy often takes what we call a top-down approach. We impose techniques onto the psychology having identified aspects of the psychology that are presenting imbalance. Most of therapy culture sees trauma and addiction still as solely a psychological condition. The coaching approach is to recognize what is already revealing itself physiologically to create support, stability and further integrate the biological system beyond the truncations and interruptions that happen during a trauma (acute or chronic). What is interesting about this approach, and often surprises people is that we don’t focus on the trauma. When we have a better grip on understanding what we actually have control over, we realize that more important than the condition itself is the environment that it is in.
Now, I would like to share a little bit more about what trauma really looks like in a person’s life because from the first-person view, even if there is a great deal of suffering in it, it can be very hard to identify. Often the effect of trauma take time, sometimes decades to reveal how much it is impacting a person’s life. Over long periods of time people will begin to realize to alienated they are from the moment around them. They may develop chronic disease with wierd symptoms that leave the doctors scratching their heads. You may realize that when certain invitations are presented by friends or family it can feel like “too much”. A tendency to shut down. Or the opposite- filling the moment with hurry the need to over control every situation; that if you were to let yourself relax and just let life be- “something bad really bad could happen”. Psychologically we may experience unexplainable extremes- terrifying thoughts and a stuck sense of eternal hell.
For a long time, many years, my personal life was remarked by some of what I mentioned above. Aspects of my experience were severe, experiencing some of the worst qualities in the human in both others and within myself. Often, life was truly unbearable and I did not want to be here. I couldn’t believe the world was so cruel and so unfair and I suffered intensely, spiraling in my own isolation. I felt trapped in it. I made extraordinary efforts to heal. I put all of my attention on it because there was nothing I wanted more than to be free from what was so painful and terrifying. Despite experiencing temporary relief, I found myself chronically defeated. My story isn’t unique, the truth is that many people are suffering in this way.
“We begin to heal trauma by learning to work without it”. In the coaching approach, the primary concern is what is showing up (often unconscious to the client) to build support. This happens through subtle movement patterns, breath changes, and an oscillation of being internally drawn to becoming oriented through the senses. These physiological changes are observable and create a nest of support. Incomplete physiological patterning evaporates or stunts our trust and that is what we rebuild- physiologically, psychologically, relationally. We can achieve a lot as individuals but the reality is you will only go so far. If we were hurt in relationship, why would we expect to heal as individuals?
And now I would like to share just a little bit of life can look like when these patterns are transforming or transformed. Often, life takes on a whole new sense of meaning! Joy comes to the forefront of the experience. What was once disagreeable, uncomfortable, unsafe and even unbearable can become something interesting. We find ourselves leaning in instead of pushing away. Our capacity grows immensely. We have much more greater sense of choice in life, control over our lives, and ease with inevitable times of chaos. It is not what we expect it to be! We find ourselves living in more mystery and trust that “help is on the way”. We feel supported. The possibility opens to consider the deeper aspects of what it means to be a human and the importance of non doing.
In addition to personal coaching session work, if you are curious about pursuing further education and growth on what is mentioned above I encourage you to check out the End of Trauma Course- https://organicintelligence.org/the-end-of-trauma-course/
I may or may not be instrumental in your process of transformation and healing. What I can say is that you will work with someone who not only understands these processes on an intellectual level, but on a lived one. I have been and am extremely fortunate for the support that has come into my life. I carry the wisdom passed on me into session.
If there is anything I can do to support your growth, if it be providing further info or linking you with a colleague who may be a better fit please do not hesitate to contact me. It will be my honor.
-Landon
OI Coaching is a deeply attuned conversational interaction that works directly with the growth trends of a client’s neurobiology. Graduates have trained to work with individuals for both online and in-person coaching and to:
Understand the science-based fundamentals of systems theory, graduate-level psychological theories, and mindfulness.
- Grow clients’ processing bandwidth, planning, and problem solving abilities at the source: our human neurobiology.
- Recognize clients’ emergent states that lead naturally toward their biology becoming Auto-Organizing—the basis of self-healing.
- Work with an emphasis on attunement to the client in the here and now.
- Use Organic Intelligence’s ISOMA™ framework to make change safely—not just in the cognitive or emotional realms—but with training in all aspects of the client’s experience: Image, Sensation, Orientation, Meaning and Affect (ISOMA).
In OICC, coaches discover how neurobiology, psychology, complexity science, ethics, and spirituality find their weave in a compassionate and deeply attuned coaching relationship.
