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I am deep in planning my new in-person workshop on Transformational Coaching. In Fall 2024, I’ll be taking this 2-day learning experience on the road. It’s been over 4 years since I’ve done these kinds of workshops, and I can’t wait to be in person with others who are committed to transforming schools. 

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But what I want to tell you about today is how much I’m loving this planning process! I loved writing Arise: The Art of Transformational Coaching, and now I’m loving turning it into a learning experience. I’m also amused by how often I realize I’m drawing on a strategy that I wrote about in The PD Book, or one that we teach in our Artful Design and Facilitation workshop. It’s kind of a relief to remember that I really, really do the things I teach others to do!

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I often say that you can’t deliver transformational learning experiences without having experienced one yourself. You need to have had the embodied, emotional experience in order to create that for others. It’s essential in order to meet our core human need for competence (which I talked about on Episode 197 of The Bright Morning Podcast).