We recently caught up with Andrew Elowitt, one of our FEBI Certified Coaches. Andrew has been keeping himself busy with a thriving consulting practice, New Actions, and a book to be released this winter. We asked Andrew to tell us about how the FEBI and Energy Patterns have been supporting his practice…
"I recently used the FEBI during an executive management team retreat for the North American business unit of a large Dutch multinational. The team members were as hardnosed and blue collar a group as you could find in a C-Suite. I was told talking about emotions, let alone the body, was going to be a big challenge with this group of guys. Getting them up and moving would be difficult and any mention of dancing would be laughed at. The saving grace was that almost everyone on the team was an avid golfer.
So I used golf as a way for them to understand and access the four basic energies. I handed one of the members a golf club and had him do a freeze frame step by step walk through of what he does when hitting a golf ball. The others mimicked him without clubs. When we stopped him at the end of each phase of his golf swing, we talked about which different energies were being used. They even talked about how the quality and proportions of the four energies change in response to the kind of shot you're making: driving, chipping, or putting. Much to my relief and amazement they really got it, which in turn later led us to some real breakthroughs in how they communicate with outside organizations."
To learn more about Andrew's work, visit www.newactions.com , follow him on Twitter @aeNewActions or contact him at elowitt@newactions.com.
