1. Uncovering the Unseen — Reframing Unconscious Bias

"Evoking awareness is a key coaching competency. As coaches, our ability to foster trust, empowerment, and equitable growth depends on our self-awareness. This includes our observation, understanding and awareness of the unconscious and implicit biases we all carry. This class is all about meeting our own biases as well as our coaching clients’ unconscious biases. These will be explored through reflective discourse and practice. You will explore these through reflections and practice of deep listening and asking generative questions. Through practice with others, you will explore how biases show up in coaching relationships, with the emphasize in creatingan inclusive environment and increasing cultural awareness.

Benefits:

• Strengthen self-awareness and trust-building skills.

• Cultivate inclusive coaching practices.

• Enhance the ability to evoke powerful awareness in clients.

2. Cultural Competency — Embodying Inclusivity in Coaching

This workshop creates space for coaches to explore cultural competency as it impacts navigating diverse contexts with more awareness, humility, and impact. Grounded in the ontological domains of language, emotions, and body, participants will explore their own cultural dimensions and work with peers to practice coaching inclusively.

Benefits:

• Develop cultural agility and adaptability.

• Increase comfort and effectiveness in cross-cultural coaching.

• Build a coaching presence that fosters belonging.

3. Dimensions of Being: Coaching in a Diverse World

This workshop invites coaches to deepen their capacity to navigate and honor human diversity through the lens of being. The session explores how language, emotions, and embodied practices shape our perceptions. Through reflective exercises and dialogue, participants will expand their ability to hold space for clients across differences and cultivate a coaching presence that is inclusive, aware, and transformational.

Benefits:

• Expand capacity to coach across lines of difference.

• Strengthen emotional intelligence and presence.

• Deepen connection with clients’ lived experiences.

4. Social Identity and Intersectionality in Coaching

This session plans to equip coaches to more skillfully notice, name (when appropriate), and work with how intersecting social identities and systemic privilege/oppression influence coaching presence, relationship, interpretations, and outcomes—through the ontological lenses of Language, Emotion, and Body.

Benefits:

• Increase awareness of systemic influences in coaching.

• Cultivate nuanced, ethical approaches to identity work.

• Strengthen trust and depth in coaching relationships.

5. Deepening Personal Stories for Coaching, Leadership, and Understanding

Understanding our own identities and hearing the identities of others allows us to contextualize our experiences and backgrounds. This highly interactive workshop allows collaborative learning through curiosity and coaching.

Benefits:

• Develop narrative intelligence as a coaching tool.

• Enhance authenticity and connection.

• Use a story as a bridge to transformation.

6. The Role of the BEL Model in Meeting Microaggressions

Rooted in the BEL Ontological Model (Body, Emotions, and Language), students will learn to engage with microaggressions not only intellectually, but through a fully embodied lens that honors lived experience and presence. Participants will deepen their understanding of how microaggressions operate through experiential learning, reflective practice, and peer coaching exercises.

Benefits:

• Strengthen embodied awareness and resilience.

• Build skill in addressing microaggressions with clarity and care.

• Increase psychological safety and trust within coaching relationships.