About Geoff Cox | Healing Arts

Meet Geoff

Coach & Mentor

I am a leadership and embodiment coach, conflict mediator, somatic trauma bodyworker, and meditation teacher. Originally trained as an acupuncturist and certified as an Integral Professional Coach and Integral Facilitator, I have spent the last fifteen years practicing, teaching and studying adult development, embodied transformation, somatically oriented trauma resolution, and the awakening arts. My coaching practice centers my training in Aletheia Coaching, parts work, somatic coaching, conflict transformation, spiritual mentorship, and Somatic Experiencing. With over twenty years of training in Tibetan Buddhist practice, qi gong, and other wisdom traditions, I bring a sophisticated understanding of how to nurture embodied spiritual depth, resilience, and whole-hearted egagement with life in a time of exponential social and technological change, uncertainty, and climate disruption. I am currently based in Charlottesville and coach clients around the world over Zoom.

Teacher & Facilitator

Certified Integral Professional Coach™
Certified Integral Facilitator™
Certified in Level III "Healing the Vagus System" Bodywork with Janet Evergreen
Certified Conflict Mediator
Aletheia Advanced Coaching Training - Level 1
Certificate in Level III Parts Work with Leadership That Works
Somatic Experiencing Practitioner (in training)
Certificate in Somatics, Trauma, & Resilience - Strozzi Institue
Training in "Somatic Dialogue: Relationship Attunement & Attachment" with Janet Evergreen
Developmental Coaching Mastermind with Rob McNamara
Licensed Acupuncturist (L.Ac.)
Qi Gong and Meditation Teacher
Certificate in Zapchen Somatics
Social Meditation Facilitator Trainer
Certificate in SFMA (Selective Functional Movement Assessment)
Certified Personal Trainer (National Academy of Sports Medicine)

I am currently a core facilitator for Trauma & Somatics Practitioner Training and Embodying Somatics. I have taught mindful communication and embodied leadership at the University of Virginia for the past eight years. While at UVA I created and facilitated three courses: "Meditation Peer Leadership," "Mindful Facilitation & Leadership," and "Nature & Mindfulness." I also teach Qi Gong classes and lead workshops and retreats on mindfulness and emotional resilience for UVA students, faculty, and staff.

I am a certified Integral Facilitator™ who leads retreats and workshops about embodied leadership, death & initiation, nature connection, and conflict transformation around the country. The world does not need more self-help coaches. My deepest intention with what I offer is to support, nurture, and catalyze fuller engagement with purpose and life, stronger, more vibrant and resilient communities, and whole-hearted intimacy with the miraculous and imperiled planet we are a part of.

Where I Stand

In this time of climate crisis, social instability, and economic inequality, we need radical whole-systems change. We have a crisis of connection on every level, and it is clear that many of our systems and structures are not compatible with humans thriving or even surviving on this earth. In college, I studied climate change and global development and did research on vanishing old-growth forests, dying coral reefs, and the impacts of free-market neoliberalism on human communities. My studies and lived experience have made me passionate about supporting the social movements around the world advancing climate justice and enacting the kinds of community and systems change that we need the most in the world.