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Why might it be useful for you and your coachee to be upon your feet?

• Energy / Rapport
• Demonstrate change is possible – quickly
• Link to somatic
• Body language more visible – helps coaching process
• Unsticking emotional stuckness
• Changes perspectives
• Creating space
• Experientially help find:
  • Disinctions
  • Detachment –vs- attachment
  • Perspectives
• Inject play / fun element, e.g. timeline

What coaching topics / situations might be more effective with both you and your coachee up on your feet?

• For ‘stuckness’ in coachee or coach
• When coachee is emotional – breaking the state
• Pinpointing the physical manifestation of ‘it’
• Responding to client’s movement and images in mind. Act it out
• To represent goal focus / past / present / future
• To represent different ‘positions’ e.g. opposing views
• Constellation work

How might you organise physical movement

• Walking and coaching and stop to capture thoughts if needed
• Stand in the place of a decision and test it (taps into intuition)
• Move and break state
• Stand in your power circle and act ‘as if’! Anchoring
• Timeline – get history, walk through career … when did you feel most powerful?

How could we be more creative / effective in the choice of venue for coaching conversations?

• Roving – walk and talk
• Use outdoors e.g. parks
• Fitting the necessary state
• Whose ‘agenda’ is the setting – make it the coachee’s choice
• Art gallery – self-reflection and raising awareness
• Does the client want to get away from a specific environment? E.g. being seen by colleagues
• Coach faces out in glass walled office.