Susan Britton MCCICF Award-Winning Coach Educator, Neuroscience-Informed ICF/SHRM Coach Training, INSEAD Executive Masters in Change, Advocate for Evolutionary Shift from “Red Zone” to “Blue Zone” for Leaders, Coaches & Fellow Humans

Curiosity is Body, Not Just Mind

Name: Curiosity is Body, Not Just Mind
Uploaded: 2026-01-02T06:00:52+00:00
Duration: 53 s
Channel: Susan Britton MCC
Description: In this brief excerpt, the speaker argues that curiosity is not merely a mental exercise but an embodied experience. By encouraging coaches and leaders…

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In this brief excerpt, the speaker argues that curiosity is not merely a mental exercise but an embodied experience. By encouraging coaches and leaders to physically feel curiosity—beyond checking off open‑ended questions—they can convey genuine interest, slowing down the rush of busy work to authentically connect with employees and team members. The speaker invites a colleague, Lee, to add, reinforcing the idea that true curiosity must be sensed in both body and mind to be perceived as sincere by others.

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What do you think might happen if you could try on being curious one layer deeper? Lee, anything to add on curiosity? That you asked us to feel it, because I think that there's a component of curiosity that is body and not mind. And so I really believe that that's a reminder for us as well as coaches and as leaders that, you know, we can start to feel this essence of curiosity and remember what does that feel like so that in the moment, again, we're just not speeding through things because we are so busy, but we actually take a moment to embody not just the mental, okay, I'm going through a checklist, I'm asking open-ended questions, but really mean it in our body and in our mind so that our employees and our team members can feel that it's genuine.