Ellen Falconer
Transformative Life Coach Supporting Personal Growth for 25 Years
Offering 1:1 and Group Coaching workshops
You Can Design Your Life
A life coach is a guide and companion during the times when you reach a crossroad in your life journey. If you are reading this, then you are questioning your current situation! I’d love to help you.
A somatic coach can help you use your inner wisdom (those “gut” feelings) to make better-informed decisions, using your mind, your heart, and your body in unison. We are already whole, we may just have trouble remembering that if we depend only upon our minds information!
This may be a time in your life where you need to shake things up, make a change in your routine: at work, in a relationship, or at play. Virtually all relationships change over time. A fresh perspective, from the inside out, can revitalize your day-to-day, create more joy and enrich your relationships.
Start where you are- right here, right now! I can help you stay focused, accountable, and show you how to tap into your own wisdom, find and celebrate your strengths.
“The most interesting moment of a person’s life is what happens to them when all their certainties go away. Then who do you become? And then what do you look for? That’s the moment when the universe is offering up an invitation saying, ‘come find me.”
Why not start now?
What is Coaching?
A life coach, through observations and questions can help clients find their way through the “weeds” of their minds’ habitual patterns of thinking, re-connect with their authentic self, and follow their “vein of gold”- that wealth of insight and passion that is unique to each of us. Coaches are not therapists, yet a coaching session can be therapeutic! We do not analyze clients or encourage clients to dwell in their past- rather, we support the clients curiosity and drive to create a new way forward. As a credentialed somatic coach I will pay attention to my clients body language and offer support in exploring their “gut feelings”. Bessel van der Kolk’s book title, “The Body Keeps the Score”, says it all.
What is mindfulness, & how does it relate to coaching?
It is helpful to understand how the mind processes and stores our sensory information: what we see, hear, touch, taste, smell and feel is instantly evaluated by the mind, primarily to keep us from harm. This information forms our beliefs, habitual reactions and decisions, our self-talk. What we believe we can do- and become- can often be challenged by habitual patterns of thinking. Humans generally spend over 45% of our waking hours ruminating about the past or worrying about the future! Somatic coaching offers insights around our goals and our challenges. Becoming more mindful about our reactions, and fear of change can help release us from these (unconscious) patterns. Our creativity and joy live in the present, where we can make our wisest decisions. For more information on the classes Ellen offers, please visit her fabulous website: Olympic Peninsula Mindfulness: https://olympicpeninsulamindfulness.com/
Ellen has a calming presence - There’s something about her that opens me up and makes me feel like I can say anything and it would be okay. Her authenticity and sense of humor bring a refreshing, joyful presence I rarely ever feel to every conversation. I feel lucky every chance I get to have a coaching session with her because every time, I walk away with hurting cheeks and a fresh perspective on life!
Carolyn
What you can expect
I am here to support you as you investigate and clarify your goals, then help you to navigate your experiences. I will collaborate with you along the way: to uphold accountability and re-visit your intentions as your path forward becomes clearer. You are the visionary, the artist of your life- you hold the keys to the doors of your imagination and passion.
Sessions generally begin with leading a grounding exercise to help us “arrive” -to settle into the moment, into your question, with the mind, body, and spirit. Our conversation creates the intention for the session. I may make suggestions on how you may find more clarity through somatic -based inquiries/interventions, described below. I will support you in creating methods to explore your goals between sessions. I can be your accountability companion to help you stay excited and focused on your progress!
* Create your own sliding scale fee: Reach out to discuss your financial constraints and we will create a session or a series that suit your current financial situation.
Classes
Honoring the Shift:A 5-Week Journey Through Life Changes
As women over 30, our lives rarely follow a straight line—and unexpected shifts can leave us wondering “what’s next?”
In this intimate, supportive 10-hour group coaching series, we meet for five immersive two-hour sessions to tackle major life adjustments head-on. Instead of feeling stuck and reactive to change, we will help you use mindfulness, visualization and other somatic-based practices to actively guide it. You will walk away with an aligned plan for your current life situation, a lowered stress level, and a renewed sense of purpose for the future.
Let’s begin 2027 together~ planting the seeds of your authentic growth!
The course begins Saturday, January 2nd and continues for each Saturday in January, from 1pm – 3pm. Class size is limited to 10 attendees. Fee: $250 Location: The Fillmore Street Studio, 629 Fillmore Street, Port Townsend, WA.
Registration is open!
To pay for the course, please either send a check to Ellen Falconer, 1533 Franklin Street, Apt 3, Port Townsend, WA~ or pay with Venmo. Ellen’s handle is @EllenFalconer. Add “Shifting” to the required memo.
Questions? Don't hesitate to get in touch
Ellen Falconer and Brianna Noach are certified body-oriented life coaches, LMT’s and much, much more! We are excited to teach this short course together, and support your growth through your changes.
Introduction to Self-Compassion
These Free one-hour, online/Zoom Introductions to Self-Compassion will be hosted by Ellen Falconer and Meika Hamisch.
The two classes are January 11th, 6:30 pm – 7:30pm and January 17th, 1pm – 2pm, PST. A Zoom link will be sent before each introduction. Registration is essential!
Self-Compassion: 6-week online course
How might your life change if you offered yourself the tenderness, understanding, and compassion you so readily offer others? This course offers guidance in cultivating self-compassion and self-kindness. Through mindfulness, guided self-compassion and loving-kindness meditations, reflection, and discussion, we will gently explore our feelings, needs, self-criticism, and pain—learning to meet ourselves with greater warmth and understanding. Together, we will explore the differences between self-esteem, self-compassion, loving-kindness, and mindfulness, and how these can support us in everyday life. We will practice recognizing our inner critic, responding compassionately to difficult emotions, and remembering that struggle and imperfection are part of our shared humanity.
Self-compassion also includes honoring our needs, setting boundaries, and discerning when caring for ourselves calls for action. It can help us take responsibility for our lives, to develop a more compassionate relationship with ourselves—one that supports well-being, resilience, and a greater capacity to be present with life as it unfolds.
Tuesday evenings, February 16th – March 23rd 6:30pm – 8:00pm PST .
Course fee: $330 Register here:
Ellen Falconer and Meika Hamisch will be teaching the course together.
Meika is a Senior Certified Compassion Cultivation Training (CCT™) teacher through Stanford University's Center for Compassion and Altruism Research and Education (CCARE), and is also certified in Cultivating Emotional Balance (CEB) and Trauma-Sensitive Mindfulness.
Ellen shows openness and vulnerability. She has a really gentle, welcoming spirit who hold a beautiful space in a session.
Glenda
Education
The Somatic School: Accredited Diploma in Body-Oriented Coaching, ICF Level 2. Group Coaching certification
Full Time Purpose/Conscious Coaches Academy: Certified Practitioner of the Soulina Process
Mindfulness trainings:
completion of Mindfulness Northwest’s 350-hour Mindfulness Teacher Training Program June 2018.
completion of teacher training in Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction from Mindfulness Northwest. I am a “graduate” of numerous MBSR courses and a Mindful Self-Compassion course. I am an MBSR teacher, online and in-person, since 2020. For information on the classes and events I offer in mindfulness training, please visit: Olympic Peninsula Mindfulness: https://olympicpeninsulamindfulness.com/
certification in Mindful Awareness in Body-oriented Therapy. I was chosen to be part of a University of Washington research team. As an LMT I was trained in this protocol focused on offering recovering opioid addicts support through developing somatic awareness to make healthier choices.
Presencing
Bringing mindful attention to a sensation, to an emotion~ giving it a “voice”. Emotions are stored in the body. To heal, we must learn how to release them. Intellectualizing won’t break us out of our emotional “stuckness.”.
Constellations
Create a “map” of your goals: for example: where you are now, where you would like to be/accomplish, your strengths, wisdom, and obstacles. Call on your inner wisdom to explore each part of your map, and move forward along your path following this new constellation!
Movement
The body has a wealth of stored information. For some, movement can allow the expression and release of an emotion or a vision of oneself: where we are, how might we feel if…an uplifting experience.
Internal Family Systems
What are the parts of your inner conversations that tell you that you are unworthy, that you struggle with, are argumentative, negative or fearful? Receiving support understanding this human experience is life-changing.
Psychodrama
Can take several forms. This method of inquiry can employ role-reversal, which allows a voice to speak from another perspective~ your own or another’s!
Hakomi Verbal Experiments
Becoming aware of our implicit beliefs, our unconscious assumptions about ourselves- and others- in a non-judgmental, curious attitude, can be insightful and liberating.
Ellen’s coaching offers “a beautiful lending of warm, sweet, gentle then playful and feisty. It all comes together into a beautiful experience to be a part of.”
Chelsea
About Me
I am delighted that you have ventured onto my website. let me tell you a wee bit about myself.
I was born in Puerto Rico, grew up in New England, and moved to the west coast for college and the start of various careers: broadcasting in public radio, baking, ordinary seaman, sail maker, massage therapist, mindfulness teacher and now: a life coach. I know my way around change!
Since 1986 I have lived in Port Townsend, Washington on the beautiful Salish Sea. The skills that I offer are a blending of years of mindfulness teacher training, Zen Buddhism, bodywork and massage therapy. I’ve seen how my self, my body, my relationships with friends, family and clients can become stuck, and how they can change. Being stuck is no fun. My motivation to become a certified life coach is to be able to offer you a toolbox of wise and heartfelt techniques to move away from feeling stuck, to get grounded on a path that will move you towards fulfillment and increased joy.
Outside the office I increase my joy through quiet immersion into the natural world, and playing music- currently I am learning to play the Scottish small pipes and share music in musical sessions, here and abroad.
This beautiful world- the mountains, woods, the sea, and sky- this is our home, a blessing, a cathedral where I find spiritual nourishment and a peaceful heart.
Ellen is a medicine woman. She is so light and lively and alive in herself. As a coach she creates a warm, accepting and genuine space.
Carmen