Tina Geithner, Ph.D., ICF-PCC,
CMC, Presence-Based® Coach
I am a seasoned co-journeyer and facilitator of learning and development with over 4 decades of teaching and mentoring experience, more than 200 hours of coaching training, 13 years as a certified coach, and 9 years of mentor coaching. My experience also includes designing and facilitating workshops and retreats on a variety of topics for corporate teams from diverse fields, teaching and mentoring (undergraduate and graduate levels), experiential and outdoor education, Yoga training and teaching, and using somatic approaches to support transformation.
The integration of my education, training, and experience allows me to support you in developing more self-awareness, and clarifying what matters most to you, who you want to be, and the impact you want to have in the world. Our work together will help you set intentions or commitments and take consistent action. We will identify and disrupt old patterns of thinking and acting that no longer serve you and design practices to build capacities and new patterns that will help you fulfill on your commitments. Our work will also support you in navigating life’s challenges with greater fluidity, stability, and joy.
I’d love to support you in any and all parts of your learning and development journey, including getting unstuck, establishing momentum, reframing set-backs, navigating obstacles, and celebrating your successes. Let’s have some serious fun together and get you moving toward a life that you love - one that honors who you are and what is important to you!
“Perhaps the most important thing we bring to another person is the silence in us, not the sort of silence that is filled with unspoken criticism or hard withdrawal. The sort of silence that is a place of refuge, of rest, of acceptance of someone as they are. We are all hungry for this other silence. It is hard to find. In its presence we can remember something beyond the moment, a strength on which to build a life. Silence is a place of great power and healing.”
~ Rachel Naomi Remen
How we work…
We start where you are, we identify your current strengths and challenges, and we clarify what matters most to you. We co-create the conditions for working in a space that feels safe, respectful, and supportive of who you are, what you’re bringing, and where you want to go.
We invite all of your innate intelligence and develop your somatic awareness by incorporating exteroception (your senses and information available in the outside environment), interoception (information from your inner environment in the form of physical sensations, emotions, thoughts, energy, and intuition), proprioception (awareness of your parts, their relationship to each other, and where you are located), and neuroception (emotional regulation, dysregulation, and returning to a regulated state with greater speed, consistency, and ease).
We play with metaphors, polarities, movement patterns, and practices that deepen your felt-sense and knowing. We incorporate approaches that challenge and help you examine your ways of thinking, being, and doing and explore alternative perspectives and ways of engaging with yourself, others, and your environment. We co-create fieldwork that will support you in moving in the direction of and achieving your desired outcomes - who you want to be, how you want to show up in your life and at work, and the impact you want to have. We assess progress regularly and adjust as needed to help you hold ground when needed and move forward when ready at a pace that is sustainable and chosen by you.
Because no two individuals or teams are alike in their history, capacities, challenges, or desired outcomes, the approach we take is customized.
Options for our work include, but are not limited to:
Somatic Practices
Centering, grounding, meditation, journaling, and movement exercises support awareness and discernment. A somatic practice can be combined with a commitment or intention to strengthen an existing pattern or habit, or support the development of a new pattern or way of thinking, being, and doing.
Simple practices linked to other things you do regularly are most successful. Practice happens under low pressure situations so that the capacities and responses you’re developing become more accessible in high-stakes situations, when how you show up and the actions you take really count.
LEGO® Serious Play® (LSP) Methods
Hands-on thinking with LEGO® bricks engages our visual, auditory, and kinesthetic capacities in constructing, deconstructing, and reconstructing mental models. In the process of mapping and making our mental models visible, we can experience, understand, and work with them more effectively.
LSP Methods can be used in individual or team coaching to explore questions , gain new perspectives, and solve problems. LSP also supports playing with the current challenge, envisioning the ideal, and finding ways to bridge the gap.
Metaphor-Play
An exploratory process and evidence-based approach that involves hands-on thinking and visual mapping , similar to LSP. You bring a question, situation, or challenge around which you’d like more understanding, a new perspective or insight, or a new approach, and create a visual mental model of it with small objects. You are guided to explore the elements and their relationships via Clean Language. You can deconstruct and/or reconstruct the model as part of the exploration.
See the peer-reviewed paper that Lily Seto and I co-authored on Metaphor Magic in Coaching and Coaching Supervision on the Resources page for more information.
Touchstones
Personalized physical reminders of what matters most, chosen by you and created by me in collaboration with you. I use hand-selected waterstones, paint, gel pens, and other materials to create customized pieces of inspiration with themed images, words, colors, and designs. You might choose a commitment or intention, a word for the year, or a special design - with or without words.
Commission a single touchstone or a set that can be used along with your practices or be given as unique gifts to yourself or others. Contact me to discuss ideas and for information on pricing.
Your Engagement Makes A Difference
5% of my 2025 business income was donated to two socially responsible, non-profit organizations:
Spokane Riverkeeper (spokaneriverkeeper.org) - 100% of donations fund programs supporting clean water defense, river science, river litter pick up, native fish recovery, and water flow
charity: water (charitywater.org) - 100% of donations go directly to funding clean water projects and ending the global water crisis
Thank you for helping to support clean water locally and globally. Every stone dropped into a body of water has a ripple effect.