A 90-minute Lecture & Q&A with Nathan Blair

Part of The Perspectives Series by Animas

Do we truly believe our clients are whole? And if we do, do our coaching practices reflect this belief?

The phrase “our clients are naturally creative, resourceful, and whole” is a foundational tenet of coaching. But what does wholeness actually mean? Is it a static state or an ongoing process? And are we, as coaches, fully engaging with the whole of our clients—or just certain aspects of their experience?

Join Nathan Blair, Founder of The Somatic School, for a thought-provoking exploration of wholeness in coaching. In this 90-minute live lecture and Q&A, Nathan will uncover what might be missing from our understanding of wholeness and how integrating the full human experience—mind, body, and beyond—can deepen our coaching practice.

Through the lens of somatic psychology, which recognises the profound interconnection between mind and body, Nathan will challenge us to expand our perception and question whether we are truly embracing the full spectrum of human experience in coaching.

What You’ll Explore

● Is wholeness a starting point or a destination?
● What is the alternative—fragmentation, disconnection, or something else?
● How might our coaching conversations be unconsciously excluding certain aspects of the client’s experience?
● What does “the whole is greater than the sum of its parts” really mean in the context of coaching?
● How can a somatic perspective shift our understanding from mind-centred coaching to a body-mind approach?
● Why we must be mindful of not “throwing the baby out with the bathwater” as we expand our coaching horizons.

This session is an opportunity to question, expand, and challenge our assumptions about wholeness in coaching. Whether you’re new to somatic work or looking to deepen your practice, Nathan’s insights will offer fresh perspectives that you can immediately apply to your work with clients.

About The Perspectives Series

The Perspectives Series by Animas brings together leading voices from beyond the Animas community to expand our understanding of the principles underpinning transformative coaching.

By inviting coaching experts from diverse areas of practice, we create space for rich dialogue and fresh thinking around transformative work.

Join us for this unique session and discover how we might put the whole back into ‘creative, resourceful, and whole’.

Nathan Biography

Nathan was always a sensitive child. In his teens he was diagnosed with ADHD and took medication until his mid-twenties when he began to search for natural ways to manage the symptoms. He soon realised that his sensitivity, which he’d thought was a weakness, was actually his greatest strength – this would evolve into a growing conviction that, as individuals, we are not broken and we do not need to be fixed.

Moving on from a psychology of disease, disorder and dysfunction towards an understanding of human potential and what helps people flourish and thrive; Nathan studied psychology and trained as a coach shortly after university. As a coach non-verbal communication with his clients always felt important to Nathan and he wanted to become more skilled in leveraging its power. Not finding exactly what he wanted in the coaching world, he studied Focusing, Hakomi, Authentic Movement, Gestalt, and learned from the leading thinkers in sciences like interpersonal neurobiology and embodied cognition.

The field of somatics encompassed everything he felt was fascinating about what makes us human. The somatic school was born out of a desire to create the coach training he had been searching for.