Coaching
We hope that a coaching relationship with an Inspire to Change team
member will result in the following shifts:
Discovering and accepting your whole self by focusing more attention on awareness and presence, and less on self-judgment.
Moving towards greater inner wholeness by integrating fragmented parts of yourself and creating the space to grow more fully and deeply into the whole selfhood.
Bringing your whole healed self to your work in a way that fosters curiosity and openness, vulnerability, and a stronger sense of purpose.
Aligning inner wellbeing and outer action, including finding relief and healing from burdens while allowing more time to practice active empathy, celebrate, laugh, dream, create, and relax.
Building proficiency in reflection, reframing, questioning, problem-solving, planning, and time management.
Deepening emotional intelligence and inspiring creative thinking.
Our vision is a whole, beautiful, and just world. We, as changemakers, must take care of ourselves and each other if we are to realize this vision. Care can take a lot of forms. One of the forms it takes at Inspire to Change is coaching. We are not coaches in the traditional sense—we are not going to help you be stronger, faster, or more efficient. Instead, we think of coaching as creative navigation: We journey with people and organizations as they find their true north. It’s about helping people get where they want to go while recognizing that this often means changing something from within in the process.
Types of Coaching Relationships
Different people and groups benefit from different types of coaching relationships. We offer the following:
Individual Coaching
1:1 Get targeted support by signing up for 1:1 individual coaching. You will have private sessions coaching between yourself and an Inspire to Change team member
Group Coaching
Harness the power of the group by signing up for small group coaching with other changemakers. You will participate in sessions including yourself, an Inspire to Change team member, and up to ten other changemakers
Team Coaching
Bring coaching to your organization or initiative. We can work with groups from 2 to 200 to help your organization or initiative take your work to the next level of alignment, learning, adaptation, and embodiment
Consulting
We believe that transformation change requires alignment, learning, adaptation, and embodiment
Align
Align mission, vision, assumptions, values, guiding principles, and learning purpose–rooted in place–with attention to language, power, and perspectives
Adapt
Develop further by adapting action plans, learning plans, and resources, while moving from one adjacent possibility to the next
Learn
Develop and implement interdependent action and learning plans with shared inquiry questions, co-created methods, and sensemaking. Make sense of learnings and reflections
Embody
Embody the commitment to full-sensory knowing, relationships, and care. Then begin again, a changed person in a changed place
Specific services include the following:
Alignment of Mission, Vision, and Values
Board Development
Creative Engagement
Creative Evaluation
Developing Principles of Data Use
Embedding and Embodying Equity (IDEA)
Evocative Facilitation for Transformation
Guiding Principles Development
Restorative Circles for Healing and Hope
Strategic Adaptation
Strategic Planning
Storytelling
Theory of Transformation Development
to see our full list of consulting services and to learn more about
how we facilitate these engagements
Courses
We bring engaging, educational content through short form videos, long form courses, tutorials, how-to lessons, and more, covering every topic you’ve ever wondered about (and many you never thought you’d wonder about) related to alignment, learning, adaptation, and embodiment
We offer two types of courses
Online Self-Paced Classes
These online self-paced classes let you move through the content in your own time
Online Instructor-Supported Classes
These online classes ask you to do one lesson per week at your own pace while contributing to online discussions
We will be offering the following courses during 2022-2023
Learning and Leading in Complexity: Developmental Evaluation
Learning on Purpose: Utilization-Focused Evaluation
Moving Beyond Words: Arts-Based Evaluation
Following the Northstar: Principles-Focused Evaluation
Creative Evaluation Essentials
Evaluation for Wellbeing
Community
Join our free, online Mighty Network to connect with other changemakers, access resources, and learn about online and in-person events.
Speaking Engagements
Co-founders Nora Murphy Johnson, PhD and A. Rafael Johnson, MFA are sought after speakers on wellbeing, creativity, and learning for transformative change. Their speaking style is authentic, passionate, empowering, and honest. Murphy Johnson, and Johnson can be booked for sharing a keynote, facilitating a workshop, being interviewed for a podcast, or speaking on a panel.
For more information and speaker prices, email inspire@inspire-to-change.org