Liberatory Coaching
Problems are Sacred
There are many different approaches to coaching.
A liberatory coach approach begins with the belief that our challenges are sacred material, carrying insights and wisdom that can guide us towards greater wholeness.
As your coach, I support you to create enough space around what you are experiencing so that you can meet it with curiosity, compassion, and clarity. (More on the 8 c’s here)
Together, we connect with what the mind knows, and also what lives in the body and in the emotions beneath the surface. It is through our bodies that we sense into the state of our inner world. We will talk, draw, journal, visualize, move, and create space for spirit. Weaving together different ways of knowing enables a rich and enlivening process.
I love the metaphor of nourishment and the table. A table is a place where we gather, where we bring what we have, and where we receive what sustains us. Coaching offers a similar invitation to come as you are and receive what you need.
This is my invitation to come be nourished, and step more fully into your wholeness.
Free Intro Chat
We can get to know each other and explore if coaching together makes sense. You can also experience my coaching style with a mini session.
Book a 1:1 Coaching Session
When you are ready, I’ll meet you with my presence.
Questions?
Curious to learn more about my coaching style and the shape of sessions? Send me a note and we can chat.
What topics can I bring to coaching?
You can bring anything that feels alive, stuck, or important. Here are some examples of what that might include:
Finding your leadership voice and inner confidence
Healing from perfectionism and people-pleasing
Navigating life and career transitions with intention
Working with interpersonal conflict
Managing stress and overwhelm
Being with grief and loss
Setting boundaries and reclaiming your time
Reconnecting with creativity and joy
Living a life rooted in your values, truth, and liberation
As coach I will:
Accept wholeheartedly where you are at and create a coaching container of dignified presence.
Support you to clarify your needs and values.
Guide you to notice and name limiting voices and patterns.
Lean into abundance and trust that you will bring the answers to your issues and as coach I do not have to fix anyone or anything. Instead of giving you advice, I will help guide you to find your answers. You know what’s most important.
Ask thought-provoking questions to make meaning, deepen awareness, inspire hope, and open up the field of choice.
Co-create action steps after each session, make requests, and hold you accountable to your commitments to Self.
As coach partner* you will:
Develop your goals for coaching and define what success looks like.
Be willing to be transformed in service of your goals.
Be at choice and have full agency to set the boundaries; going as deep as you want to go.
Recognize me as a coach and not a consultant (to give advice and strategize) or therapist. While coaching has therapeutic benefits and connects to past experiences, it is forward focused.
Co-create action steps after each session and respond to requests.
(*Rather than using the term client, liberatory coaches opt for the term "coach partner" to emphasize the reciprocity of the coaching relationship and address the power dynamics that come from the white supremacist cultural positioning of the coach as an expert.)
My Divine Audience
The people I most want to support are those who are consciously walking the path toward our collective liberation. I have an affinity to working with women of colour given my own lived experience. I am also open to working with folks with other identities. Whether you are an institutional leader trying to shift culture from within, an entrepreneur building something better, an organizer weaving social movements, a student learning and unlearning, a caregiver doing sacred labour, a teacher, a creative… I offer a grounded mirror and a steady hand for the journey.
Liberatory Coaching Certification
My professional coaching certification is from Coaching for Healing Justice and Liberation. This program is for BIPOC social justice movement leaders committed to learning coaching skills for individual and collective liberation. It is the only offering of its kind rooted in ancestral wisdom, radical love, and the belief that another world is not only possible but already being born. The program helped me deepen the coaching skills that I have been practicing in my leadership roles for the past 15 years, and supported me to do so much inner healing work which has enabled me to coach at a much deeper level.
In their words…
Understanding Self Leadership
We carry many parts within us, each holding different perspectives and memories. Some of these parts know each other well, while others live in isolation, unheard or unseen. Fear, Shame, Perfectionism, our Inner Critic… these are not flaws, they are our humanity.
Your capital “S” Self is your inner divine essence. The YOU beyond your name, beyond your roles, beyond any one story. Self is calm, clear, creative and compassionate. Self is the steady presence that connects you to source energy and inner wisdom.
Following the lineage of Internal Family Systems (IFS), the heart of liberatory coaching is inviting Self to lead. Parts grab our attention; Self needs to be invited. From your grounded centre, you can meet your parts, not to fix them, but to listen, love, and understand their good intentions. This is not about managing or optimizing your inner world. It’s about opening a portal to deeper belonging within yourself and with the wider field of life. As you learn to be with your parts from Self, you create healing pathways towards liberation and return to the truth that you are already whole, already enough.
“Remember, you will never know who you are in your spirit by attempting to be above your humanness. It is always through your humanness that you truly know your spirit. ”