C e n t e r  f o r  L i f e  D e s i g n
Therapeutic Massage and Life Coaching
Ontological Coaching
What if you could have and be what you want just by saying so?
Then what would you say?

Ontological Coaching is an approach-to-life
coaching that gets to the heart of
what really matters
. It represents a new understanding of human interaction.
Ontology is the study of the nature of being human.
Each of us has a unique way
of being human, which influences what we see, hear, feel in the world around
us.

The biggest difference in this model versus others? We coach to the way of being
human
versus coaching to a way of doing--also know as the 'be' in the 'be, do,
have.' Ontological coaching as a practice, includes, but also goes beyond, effective
action to the aim of effective living.  

Coaching is dynamic, purposeful and explores the infinite possibilities.
We
believes that every client is whole and complete just as they are.
It is directed by
our daily experiences.
  • Where do you feel incomplete?
  • What are you challenged by or confronted with?
  • What more do you want in your life?  

A coach is someone who assists you to determine your own answers to
achieve success, and opening up new opportunities for effective action.
We
need each other to test out ideas, to share what we are learning, to help us see in
new ways and listen to our stories. Coaches are there for this.
Coaches are also
there to forgive
when you receive feedback, as there is not failure, to trust with your
dream, to offer hope when you have lost your own.

In Ontological Coaching
we look at thinking, language and practices to determine
behavioral patterns. From there, we create a shift in thinking, develop new ways of
speaking and new practices to produce the desired results.

Coaching AND Bodywork
When integrating coaching and bodywork, or the mind and body, we use the body’s
information in the coaching process for a
deeper understanding of yourself.  

If we hold awareness of the whole system, as we study the part or problem, and
understand the part in its relationship to the whole, profound new insights become
available. The
task is to evoke all our senses, not just the mind. When we can
dwell in multilevels simultaneously then we can let our senses lead us to new
ways of comprehending.

Trauma Touch Therapy™  is a client directed, client empowered, connecting
of body and  mind. Trauma Touch Therapy was developed to
address the needs
of clients affected by trauma and abuse
, including sexual and emotional abuse,
battering trauma of war, surgery, or criminal violence.

Focused on empowering the client, the technique combines therapeutic
movement and breath work with psychotherapeutic elements to bring the body and
mind together in a holistic healing.
“ Life is a good
partner. Its demands
are not unreasonable,
a great capacity for
change lives in
everyone of us.”

- Margaret J. Wheatley
Roxann Keyes
Certified Massage Therapist
Body Centered Therapist
Ontological Coach


684 Excelsior Blvd
Suite 120
Excelsior, MN 55331
612.270.6323