Praise for Body = Brain

This course is amazing! Body = Brain integrates current advances in neuroscience with cutting-edge applications of somatics in a way that will deepen the discourse in leadership development circles. Clear articulation of the nature and value of body-oriented learning allowed each participant to see possibilities in their own working environment and to come away with practical applications for day-to-day work and life.

As a participant in Body=Brain for the fourth time, I can attest to the richness of this material that bridges the gap between science and practice in embodied learning. I decided one of the criteria for my doctoral research ‘exploring the experience of integrating the body in learning’ would be that study candidates participated in Body=Brain multiple times. A large pool of candidates met this criteria, which speaks to the value of the program.

My challenge has been convincing executives around the merit of practice. Most of them don’t even want to talk about what they are feeling. But now I have theory to back the veracity of the practices I have been offering to my clients. I consider your course one of the best uses of my time, and one of my all-time favorites!

I took Body = Brain three times. That is a testament to how valuable it is. Mandy does an amazing job of thoroughly and painstakingly laying out the process of how we learn and how we change. It makes it so much easier for me to stand in front of a group of MBA students and make claims about why centering and mood are essential to leadership.

I think this course should be a required part of the Somatic Coaching Certificate. It gave me the scientific background for how people learn and change. What we as coaches are doing is facilitating our clients to literally rewire their brain so they have the capacity to be informed by their feelings and not be driven by them. Body = Brain helped me understand why the somatic practices work and gave me a simple way to communicate it to clients.

This material is FANTASTIC! I am so very impressed with the framework, the rigor of the content, your knowledge, and your ability to express it. Your material is landing spot on for me…thanks for letting me join you!

As a teacher you are very authentic, open, relaxed, respectful and clear. I appreciate that you answered questions thoroughly in every call… and that they were quality questions because we had such a high quality group of interested professionals! Besides that, we had a lot of fun, too – that always enhances learning.

Thanks to Body = Brain, I can now help my very intellectual clients at the World Bank understand (and learn to trust!) the messages that they get from their heart, their gut, and beyond. This course has given me the language to explain just how vast our intelligence really is. Being able to speak about this in a credible way has enabled me to help my clients become more resilient and resourceful.

I have a client who never stops talking. She feels she benefits more from having conversations to figure things out rather than trying to feel. Once I was able to give her specific examples of why she was not achieving the outcomes that she wanted, and used my new knowledge from Body=Brain to explain why the body was essential to the changes she wanted to make, we were able to move forward together. We actually redesigned our coaching relationship as a result of this. My client is now resisting less and learning more.

I think about the recent class I took from you all the time — your voice and your work reverberate through me. You are a fantastic teacher and one of the best somatic teachers I have ever learned from – and I have trained with the Masters since the 70s!