This document discusses open awareness, its characteristics and benefits for coaching, therapy, and life. Open awareness involves mindfulness, bodyfulness, and a calm, receptive state that enhances intuition. It promotes reducing distress and a sense of interconnection. Open awareness expands one's perspective and can help transform crises into opportunities for growth. The document discusses how open awareness helps hold the liminal space for transformation in coaching and therapy. It notes some issues with excessive technology use like tunnel awareness and discusses how open awareness is a game changer by promoting relaxation over fight or flight responses. It provides instructions for a somatic open awareness practice and details Jevon Dängeli's background and open awareness training programs.

1. Open Awareness
Holding Space for Transformation
in Coaching, Therapy and Life!
Presented by
Jevon Dӓngeli

2. Characteristics of Open Awareness (OA)
The value of OA in coaching and therapy
Holding the liminal space for transformation
The tunnel awareness issue
The game changer
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Holding Space for Transformation
and the role of Open Awareness

3. Between stimulus and response there is a space.
In that space is our power to choose our response.
In our response lies our growth and our freedom.
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4. A mindful mode of perception accompanied by a
calm and receptive state (Dangeli, 2017 a).
Awareness of the mind itself and somatic
experience - enhancing intuition (Yates, 2015).
Reframes one’s current experience of self,
placing phenomena within one’s awareness, as
opposed to these being experienced separate
from oneself. This reduces distress and
promotes a sense of interconnection (Dangeli,
2017 b).
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Characteristics of Open Awareness
Flowing moments of pure experience - interconnected with the rest of reality

5. Mindfulness is an awareness that arises through paying attention,
on purpose, in the present moment, non-judgementally
(Kabat-Zinn, 1990).
Bodyfulness is when no trace of conscious intention is present,
yet the individual reflexively responds to experiences in a mindful,
compassionate and wise manner (Ferrer, 2008).
Open Awareness, involving mindfulness and bodyfulness,
enables one to release (but not lose) identification with the
self-concept and become aware of the more subtle levels of
consciousness that are normally beyond our level of perception
(Dangeli, 2017 a).
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6. • Expands one's self-construct and world view
• More wholeness - disidentification from issue
• Embodying broader awareness and insights
• Transforming crises into safe and
constructive spiritual awakenings
• Integrating awakened states into everyday
life - for growth, healing and dealing with
challenges more resourcefully
• Holding the liminal Space for transformation
The value of Open Awareness in coaching and therapy
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7. Liminal relates to a transitional process or a position
at, or on both sides of, a threshold. In coaching or
therapy, the held liminal space is known to:
• expedite access to holotropic states of
consciousness, all levels of self, the psyche’s
shadow, transpersonal phenomena and a deep sense
of interconnectedness (Dangeli & Geldenhuys, 2018).
• promote rapport, receptivity and mutual resonance
(Siegel, 2013), a participatory perspective (Ferrer &
Sherman, 2011), mindfulness (Siegel, 2010),
unconditional acceptance and beneficence (Watson,
2004).
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Holding the liminal space for transformation

8. Inhibited capacity to think creatively, feeling of isolation, impulsive behaviour,
amplified and prolonged stress and anxiety (Hanson, 2011).
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The tunnel awareness issue
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10. ● Scattered thoughts and brain fog (Twenge, 2017)
● Sleep problems (Spitzer, 2016 a&b)
● Poor concentration (Ibid.)
● Short attention span (Ibid.)
● Learning disabilities (Ibid.)
● Long-term memory problems (Ibid.)
Tunnel Awareness - The Dark Side
Excessive use of mobile digital devices can potentially hardwire tunnel awareness in children and
adults, with detrimental consequences regarding health, education, performance and
relationships (Spitzer, 2016a).
More screen time means more psychological distress and depression (Twenge, 2017).
Other issues:
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The Game
Changer
Tunnel Awareness
● Fight
● Flight
● Freeze
● Faint
Open Awareness
● Relaxed
● Receptive
● Responsive
● Resourceful
(Siegel, 2010, 2018)
(Yates, 2015)

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14. Jumi combines judo based movements, yoga, qigong and open awareness skills.
The core objective of jumi is to develop and embody open awareness.
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Opening the aperture of awareness
through jumi (judo mind) practice
http://jumi.live
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15. 1. Focus on the sensations in your abdomen with each inhalation and exhalation.
2. Become aware of the entire volume of space that your whole body occupies, extending
awareness throughout and around your whole body.
3. Notice how your breath serves as a bridge between your inner and outer experience.
4. Become aware of the spaces between breaths ….…. sensing how the space between
your inner and outer experiences is the space of awareness itself.
5. To finish, focus your awareness inside the abdomen once again, feeling the physical
sensations of your breath.
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Soma Centred Open Awareness
Abridged version
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Jevon Dängeli gained a MSc in Consciousness and Transpersonal Psychology from Alef Trust at
Middlesex University. His research found that the open awareness technique can help to enhance
stress resilience and improve performance, while preventing burnout.
He provides online open awareness training and an internationally acclaimed transpersonal coach
certification program.
To help people embody open awareness, Jevon developed the jumi (judo mind practice), which he
includes in the abovementioned courses and teaches to children for free in Italy and South Africa.
Open awareness info - http://authentic-self-empowerment.com/oa/
Jumi info - http://jumi.live/

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angeli.pdf
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20. The Open Awareness Handbook
With compliments from Jevon Dängeli
Download Here
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