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Somajna
The Wisdom of The Body
We love stories!
We love stories for how they move, and inspire us to think, and act in new ways. On this page, we are happy to share some of our own stories, and stories that have moved us.
Somajna Stories are experiences of our clients and more specifically, how they have found their own Somajna, their body wisdom to illuminate their path. All the stories of our clients have been shared with permission from our clients.
If you are curious about the body of knowledge that informs our work, we invite you to browse through our blogs, where we explore topics related to embodiment, team coaching, organizational culture and more!
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Understanding when Coaching Needs to Go Deeper
There's a moment in a lot of coaching conversations where the strategy begins to run out. It’s not because the individual hasn't got the skills or the insight, they will usually have plenty of both however what's actually in the way isn't anything strategic. It's underneath. That's usually where the word therapeutic shows up, and where people tense a little. Therapeutic sounds like therapy, and therapy still carries the old idea that you only go there when something's wrong.
nickabel98
2 days ago3 min read
How to scale aggressively in a growing market?
The Context: The founders of a last-mile hyperlocal logistics startup in India knew they were in a fast-growing market that needed providers to be agile, flexible and flawless with execution. In fact, they had just secured a round of funding by demonstrating those qualities to their investors; they had established their niche with their market and had now earned the trust of investors. What lay ahead was a growth path that required them and the investors to be on the same pa
Vinayak Jakati
5 days ago2 min read
Organisations in Flow
The Value Question With the current economic climate, organisations are up against the most fundamental question from their stakeholders—of value. Is your organisation able to consistently create value? With geo-political issues receding from collective awareness, organisations are back to tracing their trajectories of revival and growth. Progress is slow and sometimes, made harder by strategies that haven’t quite hit the mark as expected. This is particularly strong in India
Vinayak Jakati
5 days ago5 min read
The Messy Middle
Notes on belonging, wisdom and the shadow These reflections were written separately, in different moments, and shared as they came. Gathered here in one place, they trace a single unfolding journey from the first search for words to explain a difference, through the shadow work of naming what was hidden, to a quieter kind of arrival. The Invitation of Difference For many years I tried to find reasons for doing certain things, in uncertain ways, and it ultimately left me seeki
nickabel98
6 days ago9 min read
Case Vignette: Meeting the Legacy Threshold
Overview The CEO of a healthcare organisation providing care to vulnerable children and adults in the UK arrived at the legacy threshold straddling multiple pressures and visible stress. His intention was to get through this challenging phase and create more leadership capacity with his team that could enable him to reinvest his focus and energy where it mattered. This coaching pathway covered a vast territory that included the client's wellbeing, how he saw himself as a lead
nickabel98
6 days ago3 min read
Coaching for embodied transformation
Conventional coaching and leadership development focuses on leaders discovering insights for growth. That is useful but not adequate in a transformation context. Transformation requires attention to how leaders show up in their role, when the picture isn’t rosy. Under pressure, we rarely rise to our intentions. We fall back on our embodied algorithms of perceiving, thinking and acting. Leaders are no different (they are, after all human). Yet, we have seen leaders make substa
Vinayak Jakati
Jul 33 min read
The Three Domains of our experience
If you’ve travelled by Metro, you know how you can tell the train is arriving by the way a cold wind greets you, ploughing through the tunnel, propelled forward by a moving mass of metal. When that draft fills the platform, there is a palpable energy shift. Everyone gets ready to board, scans around them for potential threats, adjusts their bags and positions themselves strategically. Though the sign said the train would arrive in a minute, the real sign of arrival is a felt
Vinayak Jakati
Jul 39 min read
Finding Flow with Voice, Attention & Movement
We are constantly adapting to our environment to create a sense of physical, physiological and psychological balance for ourselves. If it’s too warm, we switch on the fan or air conditioning, adjust the speed till it feels just right. What happens there is an assessment of the current conditions, followed by directing our attention to the choices available to change it, eventually leading to setting the right temperature or fan speed. What is true for a simple adjustment of
Vinayak Jakati
Jul 36 min read
The other side of a hybrid world
Latha (name changed) works as an account manager in a product company. Through the pandemic, she moved to their family farmhouse near...
Vinayak Jakati
Oct 19, 20225 min read
Organisational Energy
Imagine walking into a room full of people. With every tentative step, you are sizing up the room. You are picking up signals from a...
Vinayak Jakati
Oct 12, 20226 min read
Measurement & Observation
“To achieve understanding, it is not necessary to see many things, but to look hard at what you do see.” - Giorgio Morandi Morandi was an...
Vinayak Jakati
Jun 2, 20222 min read
Do you have an anchor?
"Have an anchor so that life doesn’t toss you around" Debby Ryan Anchors. We need them to find ourselves, to reclaim our voice that can...
Vinayak Jakati
May 13, 20223 min read
The dark secret
At some level, we are always afraid of someone coming up and telling us we are not good enough. At the workplace, on social media......
Vinayak Jakati
Apr 23, 20222 min read
The Myth of Purpose
Start with why. Lead a purpose-driven life. You have probably heard these two statements and many other related submissions imploring one...
Vinayak Jakati
Mar 7, 20223 min read
How we see time
Is time precious? Or is it scarce and running out fast? Before we begin to answer that question and land on 'perhaps it's a bit of...
Vinayak Jakati
Feb 24, 20222 min read
What makes behaviour change so hard?
If you are committed to Leadership Development as an L&D or HR leader, one question that should have disturbed you is this: What makes...
Vinayak Jakati
Feb 21, 20225 min read
The Value of Honesty
Today, I had a conversation with a friend after a long time. After we exchanged our initial pleasantries, I told him why I had called. I...
Vinayak Jakati
Feb 16, 20223 min read
Creativity is an end game
I recently heard Mary Oliver speak about her relationship with poetry and the creative process. She treated the whole business of being...
Vinayak Jakati
Feb 15, 20224 min read
Page 1 of Google
Over 75% of people don’t go past the first page of a Google search. But here’s the thing. The results that come up on the first page are...
Vinayak Jakati
Feb 11, 20223 min read
Delivering a tight presentation
Has this happened to you? You had a 15-minute slot to present something and it suddenly gets crunched to 5 minutes. How do you adapt and...
Vinayak Jakati
Feb 1, 20222 min read
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