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Coaches' Insight Online Series w/ Leader Spring Center

Join us for three distinct sessions presented by our talented pool of coaches.

About this Event

Coaching is often embraced as a vital tool in leadership development, but the coach's voice is seldom heard outside of the coaching session. Join members of LeaderSpring's talented coaching pool as they share valuable insights and tools for those who provide, receive, and fund coaching services.

Your ticket purchase provides access to three individual sessions, join for one or enjoy all three!

Session Details:

The Power of Enoughness

Monday September 28th 2-4pm with Reva Patwardhan and Ei Ei Samai

As coaches, we help leaders learn to name and claim their priorities, so they can make big impacts, avoid burnout, and continue to engage, resile, and grow over the long haul. In this session we will share 3 challenges we've encountered in that work, along with resources we've developed in response. The 3 challenges are 1) individual mindsets of scarcity that say no one and nothing is ever enough, 2) cultures and systems within the nonprofit sector that reinforce those mindsets of "never enough", and 3) power imbalances that make it harder for individuals to create change.

In this interactive session, participants can expect to receive:

  • A dialogue unpacking how scarcity mindsets relate to the causes we serve and the organizations we work with

  • Tools for adopting a systems lens to spot environmental sources of scarcity mindset, so we avoid getting co-opted by it, and can find freedom from it

  • Tools for reclaiming our sense of personal authority to declare "enough" in the face of power imbalances

  • Support for increasing self-awareness about our individual ways of internalizing and reinforcing a scarcity mindset

Equity, Pipelines, & Self-Reflection

Thursday October 1st 10am-12pm with Linda Gonzalez and Kelly Robinson

The field of Executive Coaching is a microcosm of the structural inequalities that society at large is struggling with. Coaches, especially those who are women of color, are not immune to the harm caused by these structural inequalities. Join us to reflect on our own standards of practice, healing journeys, and pipeline development.

In this interactive session, participants can expect to receive:

  • Practice frameworks for coach post-session reflection and continuous practice improvements including ethics and standards of practice

  • Discussion on the healing journey as coach-warriors

  • Reflection on continuous improvement including metrics that cover racial and gender identity

  • A case for more racial equity in the coaching field including analysis of power and funding dynamics and demographics of practitioners

Coaching in the Moment of Global Unrest: Cultivating Sustainable Self Care

Monday October 5th 1:30-3:30pm with SueAnne Freeman, Jessica Li, and Raynelle Rino

This interactive dialogue will ground participants in the moment and work to understand the current landscape of sustainable self care and its barriers from a cultural and historical lens. Leaders are holding the weight of responsibility for their communities in rapidly changing, uncertain environments which in many cases perpetuate the tensions of racial unrest. Coaches can play a critical role in holding much-needed healing space for leaders participating in change. In this session we will discuss what "radical community care" and mutual accountability could look as we create a new future.

In this interactive session, participants can expect to receive:

  • How to listen for and identify cultural differences that impact individuals, teams, and communities ability to initiate and sustain self care

  • Ways to explore, develop, and implement new and culturally sustainable methods to self care and community care opportunities

  • Emergency/crisis self-care practices

  • How coaching can break the stigma of healing, sustainable self care, and engage with a decolonized or radical self care approach to sustainable self care

  • An understanding that BIPOC communities have rich self-care practices that span many generations

Your ticket purchase provides access to all three sessions.

About LeaderSpring Center:

For over twenty years, LeaderSpring has invested in the extraordinary talent, dedication, and vision of progressive grassroots leaders in the San Francisco Bay area. Through our signature leadership development program, we have equipped over 250 social sector executives with the knowledge, skills, and networks needed to lead high-performing organizations and drive lasting change. Learn more at www.leaderspring.org.