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Come and discover this self-soothing neuroscience-based tool that you can use for everyday upsets, limiting beliefs, and deep-rooted traumas.
What is Havening and How does it relate to Coaching?
Author: Jill Savage
So if you are not living life to your full potential, or if you are stressed, anxious, lack confidence, sad, or suffering from phobias and PTSD, or where the past is intruding on the present creating limiting beliefs and triggering you, then The Havening Techniques ® has been designed to help you.
Dr Ronald Ruden has discovered that neuroscience has shown us how it is possible to modify the encoding from a stressful or traumatic event, the memory will be de-traumatized and will permanently remove its negative effects from both our psyche and our body.
Imagine being able to use this simple self-soothing tool and eliminate upsets in your life. This neuroscience-based approach can alter thoughts, moods, emotions, and behaviours rapidly and release “feel good” chemicals in the brain alongside delta waves – so you can feel calm again and heal from within. So how does this neuroscience-based tool relate to our coaching practice?
I don’t know about you but a lot of my clients set motivational goals and yet the inner stuff gets in the way of the outer stuff and it is these blocks that hold them back from stepping into their compelling future.
As coaches we have several tools at our disposal to eliminate these blocks which may come from NLP, Mindfulness, Gestalt, CBT, Psychodynamics and the list goes on depending on where our niche and coach training, background, and experience sits.
All of this is great and so helpful for our clients, and yet, in all of my years as a coach I have never come across something so fast, gentle on the client, and effective with a clear neuroscientific mechanism as The Havening Techniques®.
Paul McKenna does come into the story, which I will hold for another day. We know that he is a master practitioner in NLP and Hypnotherapy and what is little known is that he is also a master practitioner in Havening.
To quote Paul directly about the power of Havening he says, “I eventually began working with Dr Ronald Ruden, who was trying to find his own version of a “magic bullet for change”. He turned out to be the rarest of doctors – not only open-minded and with a distinguished background in neuroscience. After a seven-year study involving brain scans, he developed a new set of protocols that worked better than anything I’ve ever come across before.”
And this is what I have also found as a coaching practitioner which is why I am so motivated to let you know about The Havening Techniques®. And yes it is a technique and not a therapy and so useful in our practice for working on limiting beliefs such as not being good enough, imposter syndrome, lack of confidence, taking our leadership to the next, level, whether in delivering presentations, interpersonal effectiveness, and emotional intelligence. Any area where our past is intruding on our present causing us to be in survival mode and yet at the same time keeping us small and limited.
To know I have this technique as part of my coaching toolkit through qualifying as a Certified Havening Techniques® Practitioner, is a dream come true for me and my clients.
How can Havening help with dark experiences from the past?
Author: Mark Wingfield
Havening is used brilliantly in coaching where its skillful application will gently remove blocks constructed by your client to protect them from the past.
Your client may have at some point (s) experienced a deeply upsetting trauma which has left an event (s) specific “permanent” biological marker.
This marker (s) captured the thoughts, emotions and physical responses to keep them safe at the time the incident happened and is there to spring into action to logically protect the individual – with thoughts, feelings and actions which are to avoid a repeat of the original incident. This can be weeks, months, years or decades on from the initial incident… and the responses may no longer be helpful or appropriate.
Think about someone you know with a phobia – an overreaction to a sense of feeling unsafe about something. It is the same logical process to protect that ends up often being unhelpful, inappropriate or even potentially harmful. Imagine for example a spider dropping down from the car ceiling onto a steering wheel as an arachnophobe drives down a busy road and how that could be disastrous.
Inverted commas around the word “permanent” in the second paragraph above is very deliberate. Because life doesn’t have to remain this way.
The biological encoding process that set up this defence mechanism can be reversed by a Certified Havening Practitioner.
The client doesn’t have to spend an age reliving the original event, doesn’t even need to tell you why the barriers are there or reveal details about the past that they feel uncomfortable about or unable to discuss.
Indeed some of the details may well be unknown, even though they have such a huge influence still today.
So what barriers or self-limiting beliefs need removing for your client? Could there be trust issues, or experiences from the past in certain situations that all your existing skills and experience haven’t quite managed to push through yet? Something that is definitely there holding an individual back but apparently can’t be reached.
Even when unidentified or locked away by the brain because it is too dark and painful to access, Havening can gently allow access to these experiences and clear them out for good.
Imagine your client being freed from their past within a short session with a soothing, life-transforming session – delivered online or in person.
What will they do with their newfound freedom from the past? This is a permanent change and enables fresh starts and massive growth.
How wonderful would it be to be able to help facilitate this newfound freedom?
To witness the immediate benefits and learn more about this amazing range of techniques, you are invited to come along to see a demonstration on a volunteer, get an insight into the fascinating neuroscience which underpins this modality and learn how to be able to self-soothe with Self Havening.
Come along to an introductory session to The Havening Techniques for Coaches
With Mark Wingfield (Certified Havening Techniques® Trainer, Practitioner & Speaker) & Jill Savage (Certified Havening Techniques®Practitioner & Executive Coach & Coach Supervisor)
Jill and I will be introducing a Havening Certification Practitioner Programme exclusively for coaches and the UCA community from March 2025
y clients.