An Unconscious Language

When the unconscious is deeply heard, your system finds its way back to balance, all by itself. More ease, more resilience, more life.

Our unconscious parts are always speaking — in pauses, gestures, sighs, and subtle shifts we hardly notice. Organic Intelligence® hears this hidden language and offers the gentlest of supports, so your system returns to its natural ease — without you needing to do a conscious thing. More balance, more resilience, more life.

A slight tensing here.
A mild forward lean there.
Eyes half-closed, drifting far away.
A theme that keeps slipping back into their words.
A shudder. A hitch.

Tiny signals, easily missed. But together they tell a story — the unconscious, speaking, doing its best to guide, protect, and adapt.

Long accustomed to working with therapy clients, Steve Hoskinson noticed these signals too. At first, he followed the textbooks. When a client went quiet or stared out the window, he dutifully wrote in his notes: avoidant, non-compliant, dissociated.

But over time, he began to wonder:
What if these moments aren’t failure? What if they’re advantage? What if the unconscious is doing something useful here?

So instead of noting resistance, he allowed — and watched where these pauses led. He began adding the tiniest, most subtle, positively reinforcing hints of intervention — so slight they almost seemed like nothing at all. And change began happening, as if out of nowhere. Clients found freedoms and ease where before there had only been stuckness. And they hadn’t consciously worked on finding any of this.

That wondering became a doorway.
A doorway into a new way of working.
And from that doorway, Organic Intelligence was born.

By then, Steve had already been teaching as Professional Training Faculty with Somatic Experiencing® International for 17 years, in the lineage of Dr. Peter Levine’s work, and was widely connected across the trauma field. The shifts he made into Organic Intelligence weren’t a rejection of therapy — they were an expansion beyond it.

What Is Organic Intelligence?

Organic Intelligence isn’t therapy.
It doesn’t ask you to revisit memories or rework the past.
And OI coaches are not asked to become therapists.

It isn’t traditional coaching either.
It doesn’t push you to strive, achieve, or fix yourself.

Instead, it works with your unconscious system — the intelligent, automatic parts of you already keeping you alive and adapting every day.

Your unconscious knows more about you than anyone ever could. It knows how to predict, prepare, protect, and grow. It has kept trillions of cells in synchrony since the moment you were born. And sometimes, when life got difficult, your unconscious made adaptations that kept you going — though not always in ways that are still advantageous today.

Organic Intelligence sees these adaptations that life’s advances have outdated, and offers tiny, well-timed positive reinforcements that help them reorganize into more optimal function — so you end up freer, without working to get there.

How It Works

OI sessions are free-flowing, client-led conversations — about whatever happens to be on your mind, because that’s when your unconscious “speaks” most clearly. Subtle signals appear in your words, your pauses, your gestures — and your system is most open to receiving help when you’re free-wheeling as well.

As an OI coach, I’ve trained to hear your unconscious and to add just-enough subtle positive support so your system can reorganize towards more optimal function.

• Patterns adopted to make it through trauma reorganize into freer, more natural function.

• Areas that have locked into stress are gently reminded how to return to calm curiosity.

• Places that lost their natural smoothness, and complete access along with it, are supported to move through stuckness and regain access to all parts of you.

Over time, these micro-shifts accumulate into real change:
✨ Greater stress tolerance
✨ Improved focus
✨ Unexpected ease in areas you never consciously worked on

Sometimes, one session among many gives the final nudge — restoring resilience, balance, and ease system-wide, to an entirely new level — leaving life itself profoundly lighter.

Effortless Change

When you work with me (or any other Organic Intelligence coach), change feels effortless, because your system does the heavy lifting. I simply offer quiet support alongside.

So remember, next time you notice yourself spontaneously pausing mid-sentence, or sighing, or gazing out the window — consider letting it be for a little. Your unconscious system will thank you.

In OI, your unconscious speaks and is deeply heard. And with the gentlest of positive helps, your system gets a figurative helping hand and finds its way back to ease.

More ease, less effort. At last.

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If I pause and notice, here’s the way OI has quietly shown up in my own life.

I remember one day realizing I suddenly knew who I was — deep within — something I hadn’t even thought to look for. But there it was, steady and settled.

Later, I noticed my baseline had shifted. Calm. Peace. And underneath it all, joy — just waiting to bubble up.

The changes OI brought were never forced. They showed up on their own, like muscles growing stronger after simply taking the stairs every day. Unexpected. Deeper than I could have imagined. System-wide.

Now, I feel like I’m living again — no longer measuring every day by the next thing I “should” do to be healthier or better. Just living.

✦ 𝐼 𝑠ℎ𝑎𝑟𝑒 𝑎 𝑟𝑒𝑐𝑒𝑛𝑡, 𝑣𝑖𝑣𝑖𝑑 𝑒𝑥𝑎𝑚𝑝𝑙𝑒 𝑜𝑓 𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝑖𝑛 𝐵𝑎𝑡𝑡𝑙𝑒 𝐶𝑟𝑦 — 𝑎 ℎ𝑒𝑎𝑙𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑠ℎ𝑖𝑓𝑡 𝑚𝑦 𝑠𝑦𝑠𝑡𝑒𝑚 𝑚𝑎𝑑𝑒 𝑜𝑛 𝑖𝑡𝑠 𝑜𝑤𝑛, 𝑜𝑛𝑐𝑒 𝑒𝑛𝑜𝑢𝑔ℎ 𝑐𝑎𝑝𝑎𝑐𝑖𝑡𝑦 ℎ𝑎𝑑 𝑔𝑟𝑜𝑤𝑛.

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🌿 In addition to writing, I walk alongside clients in Organic Intelligence® coaching — the same work that grew my own capacity for more ease and resilience. This post is one thread in that larger weave.
If you feel drawn to explore, you can step in and learn more here.