Coaching For Social Action
A framework for coaches partnering with social justice organizations and change agents.
Prerequisite: 40 hour foundational class or approved equivalent 40 hours
Tuition: $600.00
Sessions: 12 (+ 11 hours Buddy Group)
Credits: 12 hours
Instructor: Sangita Kumar & Elisabeth Garrett
E-Mail: Sangita@lifecoachtraining.com & Elisabeth@lifecoachtraining.com

This 12 session course is ideal for coaches working with clients in the non-profit sector or clients involved in social action. Non-profit organizations and change agents often face unique challenges of leadership development, organizational effectiveness, and individual growth as they organize themselves, groups and organizations to create social change. This course is designed for coaching over the phone or in-person and will provide coaches with a diverse set of tools, practices and systems to support clients become empowered to make social change, address issues of culture and power in the workplace and in their theory of change, and bring attention to self-care along the way. The basic coaching conversation model from the foundational course will be applied to the nuances of coaching individuals creating social change. Coaches could be managing supervisors, consultants.

Objectives:

• To gain an arial view of the landscape of social justice work to familiarize yourself with cultural nuances
• To apply a cultural competency framework to coaching conversations in order to support holistic healing and practices
• Explore power dynamics from a theoretical and practical point of view
• Apply a framework for cultural competency, to bring intention to your coaching language, understand movement building, and tools to bring coaching conversations into organizational settings for work with groups.
• Learn how to create a theory of change with clients, as a tool to bring clarity to how personal mission connects to larger scale change
• Practice integrating a variety of tools for individual and group coaching practices into your existing coaching technique.

Instructor Bios:

Sangita Kumar is a results-based organizational development consultant and a skilled trainer dedicated to the empowerment of individuals and our communities. Her work allows her to interact with a wide variety of organizations in business and non-profit sectors in the US and internationally. Her experience with these organizations ranges from coaching, staffing, professional development, strategic planning, program design, program management and mentoring.

Sangita has developed expertise creating positive learning environments for professionals, studying the areas of teamwork, interdependence, organizational culture, and personal empowerment and motivation theories. She has designed and led over 300 training workshops and specializes in the connections between personal agency and professional development to tap into the creative potential within each one of us. She also worked for a year in Hyderabad, India as an organizational development consultant to IT firms and NGOs with overseas headquarters. In this role she provided cultural competency trainings and coaching to employees working in both Indian and US business contexts, translating cultural differences into behavioral strategies to enable smooth international working relationships. This tremendous learning opportunity allowed her the opportunity to deeply understand cultural differences between Western and Asian thinking styles.

Elisabeth (Lisa) E. Garrett received her BA in Psychology from the University of California at Berkeley. She has worked with many organizations and individuals to build their capacity, reflect on their strengths, allign with their purpose, and increase their effectiveness. Most recently she facilitated a national strategy session between The Ruckus Society's Indigenous People’s Power Project (IP3) and various Indigenous communities and organizations, and served as the Interim Education and Child Welfare Policy Coordinator at the height of the widely successful Coalition for Asian American Children and Families Keep the Promise Coalition's budget advocacy campaign. Lisa also served as the Executive Director of the Funders' Collaborative on Youth Organizing, executed the International Youth Parliament 2004 for Oxfam in Sydney, Australia, and served as a Program Director for the Seva Foundation.

For over a decade Lisa has worked to further human rights, self-determination, and environmental justice and has actively participated on several delegations to the United Nations focused on Indigenous Peoples, women rights and sustainable development. Throughout her work, Lisa maintains a commitment to capacity building, youth leadership and intergenerational partnerships.

She is currently involved in the Somatics and Social Justice Collaborative to explore how combining the two leads to transformative change.

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