Associate News and Offers
SI Associates form a group of highly skilled professional coaches and consultants. All have spent a years training with Strozzi Institute and in other modalities. This page shows acknowledgements and accomplishments from this group of people.
This page also shows public offers from our Associates. If you see an offer that interest you, please contact that person directly.
SI Associates News
Drenched, a poetry collection
Renée Gregorio's fourth full-length collection of poems, Drenched, has been recently published by Fish Drum, Inc of New York City.
Whether circling the landscape of northern New Mexico that is home, or the landscapes of foreignness, or the landscape of intimate relationship, the poems in DRENCHED speak to embracing what is other and being enlarged by doing so. What is it in nature and human nature that sustains us? How do we belong on this earth? DRENCHED is about transformation and the yearning in us to be made new.
On the back cover, poet Joanne Kyger writes of Renée's work:
She knows and sees where she is-- in her body, her place, herself. She finds courage in navigating the dark of deep waters. It's wisdom when she writes, 'no pressure to be other than what I am'.
Drenched is available from Small Press Distribution of Berkeley or Amazon.
How sales and trust are communicated through our presence.
New article co-written by Strozzi Institute Associate Amy Castoro and Master Somatic Coach Peter Luzmore!
Why, after all the personality tests, careful job shadowing and analysis, and customer feedback surveys, the secret ingredient to the top sales person’s success is nearly impossible to reproduce in others? How is it that when some sales people hear “no, thank you,” they are able to develop the conversation into an engaging discussion? Can anyone learn how to connect authentically with others and build trust in the face of rejection so that the customer or client wants to buy from us or work with us in the future? Is this quality of presence a birthright or is it learned?
Click on this link to learn more: https://docs.google.com/viewer?url=http://www.irimigroup.com/images/SSE%25201210-castoro.all%2520(1).pdf
The Relating Game reviewed by Choice Magazine
Paula Love and Jennifer VanHomer are proud to announce that The Relating Game has been enthusiastically reviewed by Choice Magazine (an emagazine for Coaches).
The Relating Game™
Deeper Intimacy and More Meaningful Connections for Individuals and Couples
By Marcy Nelson-Garrison, MA, LP, CPCC
The Relating Game™ is the most exciting tool for relationship coaching I’ve seen to-date. It offers structures for work between sessions and is absolutely perfect for couples retreats and workshops. The 96 cards are divided into categories: domain cards (what do you value most?), competency cards (what can you do?), intimacy cards (what is your heart’s deepest longing?), practice cards (how open to love can you be?) and one pause card (to be used when you need a break).
The practice cards offer wonderful connecting exercises. The domain cards provide a
place to focus on topics like career,aging parents,wealth building,purpose,legacy and sex. The intimacy cards are conversation prompts around subjects like trust, boredom, joy, recognition, etc. It’s the competencies category that really sets the product apart and takes it beyond just a powerful conversation tool. After creating a vision around one of the domain areas,you are guided to identify the competencies needed to succeed,not only to celebrate the competencies you have, but to create a plan for the ones that need to be developed. This makes it an extraordinary coaching tool.
I’ve only scratched the surface and highly recommend this tool if you do relationship work. I promise that as you begin to explore the cards you will find many ways to use them with your clients.
Find out more or order your own set here: http://www.therelatinggame.com/
Announcing New Book!
Strozzi Associate Jennifer Van Homer is proud to announce the upcoming launch of her new book, A Princess and Her Garden, written in collaboration with Dr. Patricia Adson. The telling of this story is more about the awakening and arrival of you, the reader, than it is about the journey of the Princess. The authors have wisely used their years of counseling and coaching experience to create a guided journal (The Queen of Herself) that prompts you to reflect and answer thought provoking questions about your childhood, and what you learned about taking care of yourself and others. This unique journaling experience helps you cultivate a new life story in which you love both yourself and those closest to you.
For further information and purchasing click here (http://amzn.to/u9Qlys) or like us on Facebook (Facebook page here).
New blog post!
"Can You See the Sailing Ships?" A blog post by Jan Mundo, CMSC, about how the brain, shaped by life experiences, mirrors people's expectations and influences their ability to see and act in the world.
http://theheadachecoach.wordpress.com/2012/02/10/can-you-see-the-sailing-ships/
Associate Offers
Lake Tahoe Aikido Seminar
Richard Strozzi-Heckler Sensei was the guest of Sally Jones - an Associate of Strozzi Institute and teacher at Truckee Aikido - again this September to co-teach an Aikido Seminar with Linda Holiday Sensei from Santa Cruz.
This is a Retreat all you SI folks who practice Aikido should plan on attending. The venue is at beautiful Lake Tahoe in California’s Sierra Nevada Mountains, just 3 1/2 hrs from The Bay Area, or 45 minutes from Reno Airport. All levels are welcome and encouraged to attend.
Richard and Linda each have 40 + years of Aikido experience which they bring to share with participants at the retreat. Their teaching styles blend beautifully together bringing the teachings of Morihei Ueshiba alive in their own unique ways. Their students from Two Rock Dojo and Aikido of Santa Cruz are joined by folks from many other dojos in a wonderful spirit of musubi (bringing together).
Training is both inside at the local recreation center gymnasium, and morning weapons classes happen outside on the beach with spectacular views of Lake Tahoe and the mountains.
Shared room Lake front lodging is available to keep costs low – or there is a wide range of hotels close by for those who prefer private rooms.
Mark your calendars for next year’s retreat, Sept 21st - 23rd 2012, and be sure to email Sally at info@truckeeaikido.com to get on the email list for a reminder when registration opens.
EcoSomatic Leadership Intensive
Doug Silsbee (Master Somatic Coach) and Henry Kimsey-House (Co-Founder, CTI) are offering a 8-day September intensive in northern New Mexico. We will explore the EcoSoma: the embodied experience of ourselves AS the earth. We will invite the dramatic felt realization that we are both characters in a tremendous unfolding drama, and authors of it. We will discover how we are shaped by a connected awareness of ourselves as the living Earth, and how this shaping aligns our commitments with the rawness of our place at the leading edge of evolution. Visit the EcoSomatic Leadership page for more information and recorded audio conversations with Doug and Henry.
Presence-Based Coaching Training begins April 2
Doug Silsbee, Master Somatic Coach, offers Presence-Based Coaching trainings in his carbon neutral retreat center in the mountains of North Carolina. Combining mindfulness, integral psychology and somatics, Doug's unique approach provides pragmatic and rigorous coach training grounded in a robust model of human development. Based on Doug's two books, this ICF-approved program offers sufficient ICF credits for certification at the ACC or PCC levels, or renewal at any level. Please visit the Presence-Based Coaching page for more information; the next course begins in April and completes in June.