Tomar’s Coaching Toolbox              Tomarglassescutehigh2

As a body-mind therapist, art therapist, and student of healing, psychotherapy, and spirituality for over 25 years, I have a cornucopia of tools and modalities available to help you gain clarity and move powerfully towards your goals. Which tools we use will depend on what resonates and works best for you, what my intuition tells me, and what specific needs arise in the moment. Some of my favorite tools are:

1. Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT) – This revolutionary new method utilizes the body’s energy meridians to rapidly dissolve blocks, fears, and negative beliefs at their source, and to reinforce positive states of empowerment and possibility. EFT is amazingly powerful and quick, yet is simple and easy to learn, completely gentle and noninvasive. After one session you can work with it on your own between coaching sessions, to make quantum leaps in your process of change.

2. PSYCH-K - Your  beliefs – often hidden ones – control the out-picturing of your life. PSYCH-K is a body-mind modality that quickly and simply replaces negative beliefs that hold you back with empowering ones that help you move forward. Another powerful method I use for discreating negative beliefs and replacing them with life-enhancing ones is an imaginal process called Belief Closets.

3. Hand Analysis - Do you know that your hands hold the key to your life purpose, life lessons,  gifts, challenges, and so much else? The ancient art of palmistry has been updated into a new, psychologically sophisticated skill. I am a student of it, and consult with a master Hand Analyst, Jena Griffiths, who makes her services available to my clients.

4. Inner Parts work – This approach differentiates different aspects of one’s personality and invites them to reveal their distinct agendas and desires. This can illuminate the inner conflicts that result in blocks to action. Voice Dialogue is a great tool for doing this work.

5. Inner Critic work – This most important “inner part” is responsible for a great deal of our suffering and stuckness. It is important to learn to identify and challenge it.

6. Focusing – The practice of paying subtle attention to the bodily felt sense of your experience, as defined and developed by Eugene Gendlin.  You learn to access your body’s inner knowing, which can yield greater insight than what the mind knows.

7. Guided Visualization – By using the language of the imagination, you can communicate with the subconscious mind, receive insight, and energize positive visions for your life.

8. Meditation– Through centering and quieting your mind you can reduce mental chatter and become more open to the guidance of your true self.

9. Cognitive Inquiry – It is very helpful to become aware of negative self-talk and limiting beliefs, and to learn to challenge them. The Work of Byron Katie is one very effective way of doing this.

10. Coaching tools – The coaching field has developed numerous tools and techniques to help guide you to knowledge of your heart’s desire, your purpose, and to the action plan that will take you there. These tools work with the conscious and unconscious mind, as well as the body’s subtle energy, for greater insight and clarity, release of blocks, and personal empowerment. They bring both ancient and new technologies to the focused, co-creative conversation which is at the heart of the coaching relationship.