Frequently Asked Questions - Leadership Mastery

The coaching sessions offer a directed coaching process that builds and continues the learning from our courses. We know that time is an irreplaceable commodity in organizations. We see coaching as a way to continue the learning from Strozzi Institute while attending to the day-to-day demands of ones responsibilities. We offer coaches who have been certified in Somatic Coaching through Strozzi Institute and have attended all the courses in our Leadership Mastery track. Our coaches have years of experience and were skilled and successful coaches before achieving certification with us. We can assist in matching individual and coaches.

Most people start with Leadership in Action. This is a good lead-in course for most people as we spend considerable time with the foundational distinctions and practices of somatics and of leadership as practiced at Strozzi Institute. This course is not a beginner’s course in leadership in the broad sense of the word. Since our somatic approach is new for most people, it will be a rich and deep experience regardless of your previous leadership training.

On our course offering page for Leadership Mastery, the courses are listed in an order that will continually deepen your embodiment of leadership. For most people, Leadership in Action followed by School Of Embodied Leadership has a natural flow of foundational learning and a continuation of distinctions and practices that build towards deeper insights and more leadership skills and abilities. The coaching associated with this course of study is valuable placed either between courses and/or at the completion of the course work. Our programs are designed with flexibility in mind.

Our public programs will have between 12 - 35 students. The ratio between students and teaching staff is approximately 1 to 10. We will often have a teacher student ration of 1 to 6.

The structure of our courses has been designed to offer flexibility in our course of study. The timing between sessions is dependent on several factors. For most people, anytime from two weeks to six months is good timing between the sessions of Leadership in Action. It is valuable to have some time to continue the practices from one course before the next course. Some people like to have more time to incorporate the learning into their lives. For most people, continuing in the course of study while there is a momentum with the learning and changes is valuable.

This has worked very well for participants in the past. Participants come away having greater acceptance and connection to each other, plus learning distinctions of team and working as a high performance team that can be practiced as a team after returning to work. Teamwork, efficiency, and effective coordination will increase.

There are times, however, when it is best to have an individual not associate with colleagues. It is not a difficult determination, and we can assist in that process.

Our courses are unique and ultimately pragmatic in nature. We not about having good ideas - we are about embodying the skill of effective action. We are in the questions of “what can you do?”, and “who is the person doing it?”. You will be able to use what you have learned right away. Most participants see immediate changes in how they are seen by others, and the skills to be effective, accountable, and to build trust. We are not just another manual on the shelf. If you participate fully, you will be different and act differently post course.