Skills for Change Coaching is an approach to personal, relationship, family, and community change that recognizes the influence of systemic power on our lives and relationships, and thus generates understanding, choice, and opportunity.

Central to the principles of Skills for Change, we believe that we as individuals internalize and thus embody the values and beliefs we are surrounded by as we grow up. Sometimes we are conscious of these internalized values and beliefs and we may then choose something different. But often we have internalized values, habits, practices, thoughts and stories that don't reflect our values or our current state of power and safety.

Skills for Change Coaching is unique in that we work through the body to create personal change by practicing skills for the future we want while releasing the patterns of the past, and recognizing the differences between what we can change and influence as individuals and what must be changed by collective action.  By acknowledging where we are powerless, we gain greater power over that which we can influence, and spend less energy trying to change something that we cannot impact by ourselves.

Elements of Skills for Change Coaching:

• Alienation Formula
• Power and Oppression
• Normalize, Soothe, Feel, Discern and Fight Pig
• Rescue Triangle
• Depletion/Repletion Scale
• Parent, Child, Adult
• Held Feelings and Stories
• Problem Solving
• Cooperative Contract
• Scarcity and Competition
• De-armoring Bodywork
• Somatic Practices
• The Dialectic in Context
• Collective Action
• Mediation
• Conflict Resolution