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PhilosophyCenter | SOMA Coaching℠

one-on-one coaching private, confidential, and convenient phone sessions repeatable as many times as the client wishes weekend scheduling available no background or training in philosophy needed		Instructor: Philip Golabuk Format: hour-long phone class Requirements: phone and email service Enrollment period: Four consecutive weeks Prerequisite: none SOMA Coaching℠ • $500 See Terms of Service below before reserving. Session scheduling must be completed within 24 hours. Sessions that have not been scheduled and confirmed within 24 hours are subject to cancellation and refund. SOMA Coaching℠ uses methods of philosophical counseling to address a range of physical and emotional symptoms that can arise as a result of a disregulated nervous system, often instigated by early or subsequent trauma or chronic stress and the contradictions and false beliefs such experiences tend to promote. It is in no way therapeutic and makes no thereapeutic claims, nor should it be used to treat underlying causes that may warrant medical attention.

		SOMA Coaching℠ is a unique individual coaching program that draws upon the ancient wisdom of Stoicism and Taoist philosophy to provide clients with tools they can use to begin calming the symptoms of a disregulated nervous system and over time, reestablish and normalize the mind and body's normal parasympathetic state. This life-changing transition is accomplished through the use of proven philosophical practices of detachment, allowing, and witnessing along with specific tools that have been shown to shift the nervous system from the sympathetic fight-flight-freeze state back to the normal parasympathetic state of present awareness and ease. Topics covered in SOMA Coaching℠ include: square breathing basic polyvagal theory as a tool for self-awareness seeing through the "blue meanies" of doom thinking anchoring with a personal "switch word" mantra the Taoist practice of actionless action (wu wei) doing one thing at a time the essential practice of allowing (nonresistance) reassuring the distressed brain and nervous system This offering is designed expressly to help those who are struggling with the many, diverse, and often intense symptoms of a disregulated nervous system to transcend the chronic sense of urgency, anxiety, powerlessness, and despair in those cases where the client has recognized or strongly suspects no other underlying cause. SOMA Coaching℠ is most likely to be effective in cases where such causes have been ruled out by a qualified healthcare provider. While SOMA Coaching cannot diagnose or treat medical conditions that may produce such symptoms, there is a growing body of evidence that points to disregulation of the nervous system as a condition in itself that can make living a normal life all but impossible. Addressing this directly can restore a sense of ease, agency, and optimism in the client prepared to take responsibility for his or her distress and put the instruction into daily practice.

		SOMA Coaching℠ offers far-reaching benefits for living a grounded and creative life including: proven support in helping the disregulated nervous system return to a regulated state freedom from the mind's fear-based projections experience of the deep sense of agency that arises when we learn to stop reacting and resisting improvements in peace of mind, relationships, sleep, digestion, and all areas that are adversely affected by a disregulated nervous system

		Enrollment Period The enrollment period shall be four consecutive weeks starting with the first call. Session Scheduling Session scheduling must be completed within 24 hours. Scheduling is not complete until it is confirmed by PhilosophyCenter. Sessions that have not been scheduled and confirmed within 24 hours are subject to cancellation and refund. No session can be scheduled until it is reserved. Phoning In The client should ring the PhilosophyCenter Direct Access Line promptly at the scheduled time and arrange to be in a place where ambient noise and interruptions can be kept at a minimum for the duration of the call. Note that the instructor will wait ten minutes for the client to arrive on the call, failing which class for that day will be cancelled and counted as missed without notice. Cancelled or Missed Classes If the client needs to cancel a SOMA Coaching call, at least 24 hours notice is required. In cases where such notice is provided, the cancelled class will be made up the following week. If the client misses the rescheduled call or fails to show up for a call without notice for any reason, the missed call cannot be made up and is forfeited. By reserving a session, you acknowledge that you have read and agree to these Terms of Service and all applicable policies listed in the Policies section of this website. We adhere to the strictest internal standards of privacy and confidentiality, and will not disclose client identity, information, or session details to any third party.

		Philip Golabuk is an internationally acclaimed author and educator. After completing his undergraduate and graduate degrees in philosophy at the University of Florida with special studies in existentialism, theory of knowledge, and phenomenology, he taught philosophy at the college level and as part of a community outreach program to inmates in jail and prison. He has written several books in applied philosophy that were published in the U.S. and overseas in translation by national and international publishers including Harper & Row and Ernst Kabel Verlag and reviewed in The Washington Post and Harper's Magazine. In 1993, he founded PhilosophyCenter, subsequently developing a number of courses in practical philosophy as well as leading-edge philosophical facilitating, counseling, and coaching models and methods. Philip is a member of the National Philosophical Counseling Association. He is also an accomplished guitarist, ballet dancer, and fine artist, proving that there are philosophers who actually can do things.

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