Insights Discovery® + SOMA
From preference to presence.
Insights Discovery® meets somatic experiential learning.
Insights Discovery® creates a powerful shared language for understanding behavioural preference and difference.
SOMA adds a somatic and experiential dimension — helping people build greater capacity to stay present and use that awareness in real interactions.
Behavioural insight.
Embodied practice.
The difference
What does this moment ask of me?
Understanding our preferences gives us valuable awareness. The developmental opportunity is being able to draw on that awareness when the person, relationship or situation in front of us asks for something different.
SOMA brings the body into the learning — creating opportunities to experience and practise greater choice, rather than only understand it intellectually.
Preference is the starting point.
Presence creates choice.
The goal is not a better label. It is greater range.
The wider Insights journey
Bring SOMA into the wider Insights journey.
Insights Discovery® is the foundational Insights experience. Insights also offers distinct applications in areas including team effectiveness, leadership effectiveness and change.
Insights Discovery® + SOMA
Bring the somatic and experiential dimension into foundational Insights Discovery® learning — connecting behavioural preference with greater presence and choice in real interactions.
Insights Team Effectiveness + SOMA
Explore how difference is experienced as well as understood — supporting communication, collaboration, challenge, trust and team effectiveness.
Insights Leadership Effectiveness + SOMA
Bring embodied and experiential learning into leadership development — supporting greater presence, adaptability and choice as the situation changes.
Insights Change + SOMA
Bring the somatic dimension into how people experience and navigate uncertainty, transition and changing demands.
Why SOMA?
Bring the body into the learning.
Insights develops powerful awareness of behavioural preference. SOMA brings that awareness into embodied, experiential learning — particularly when interactions become more demanding, unfamiliar or dynamic.
The aim is greater capacity to stay present and respond to what is actually happening.
More awareness.
More presence.
More choice.
Practice
Practice changes the experience.
Knowing how we want to communicate, lead or respond is useful. Experiential learning creates somewhere to practise drawing on that awareness when the interaction itself changes.
Where useful, SOMA can include live rehearsal and other experiential approaches.
Inclusion
Difference is the point.
Insights creates a language for behavioural difference. SOMA's learning design also recognises difference in how people process, participate, communicate and learn.
We create multiple legitimate routes into participation rather than one ideal way of contributing.
Explore inclusive by designAlready using Insights?
Add a somatic dimension to the Insights work you already have.
SOMA can be integrated into existing leadership, team, talent or change work without starting again. Bring a somatic and experiential dimension to the Insights language and understanding your people already share.
Delivery
Available as
- Workshops
- Team days
- Leadership programmes
- Offsites
- Coaching
- Existing L&D journeys
From preference to presence
Behavioural insight.
Embodied practice.
A note on method: behavioural preference and physiological state are separate constructs. SOMA Ignite does not map Insights colour energies to nervous-system states. Insights Discovery® is a registered trademark of Insights Learning and Development Limited. SOMA Ignite is an independent practitioner and not an official partner of Insights. Our work is evidence-informed education and coaching — not medical diagnosis or treatment.