Coaches Rising Podcast

episode 124 | Mar 15, 2022 | 65min

A Trauma-Safe Approach to Coaching

When working with trauma there is often a heavy focus on the trauma and its impact - does this need to be the case? In this conversation with Steven Hoskinson we explore the biology of trauma, how to expand our client’s processing capacity, fostering improvisation in coaching, the biological impact of wonder, the iSOMA model, negative reinforcement and the post-trauma growth trajectory.
In this podcast we talk about:

00:45 What is Organic Intelligence
06:10 The biology of trauma
12:15 Supporting the processing capacity
16:00 Fostering coaching improvisation
21:30 The “strange attractor” effect
25:40 The biological impact of wonder
29:40 Growing the capacity to experience pleasure
33:20 The post-trauma growth trajectory
38:25 Contextualizing personal healing
45:00 How negative reinforcement works
48:20 Beyond symptom relief
54:25 Modulating the iSOMA approach

Resources Mentioned:

ACEs study
Polyvagal Institute
The end of trauma course

About the Guest

Steve Hoskinson

Steve Hoskinson

Steven Hoskinson is the Founder, CEO and CCO (Chief Compassion Officer) of Organic Intelligence® (OI) and the nonprofit Organic Intelligence Outreach Institute. He and his team offer the personal resilience 9-Week Online End of Trauma™ Course, the online Coaching Certification Course HEART@Home, and the professional Human Empowerment And Resiliency Training (HEART®).

WEBSITE
https://organicintelligence.org

About the Host

Joel Monk

Joel Monk is a leadership coach, educator and entrepreneur. He co-founded Coaches Rising, a company on the cutting edge of online coach training with a community of over 65,000 coaches. Coaches Rising programs regularly include participants from every continent on the planet and they have collaborated with some of the leading minds in the field of human development and coaching. Joel is also a leadership coach, coaching at companies such as THNK, Booking.com, Siemens and Naspers. Joel has designed and led several entrepreneurial and leadership development programs, at places such as Socionext, THNK and The Impact Hub Amsterdam.