Have you ever led a team meeting that got derailed due to emotional flair-ups?
Elena shares the specific prompts she uses in these daunting facilitation moments, and what’s led to the Bright Morning Team no longer facing this common team challenge. […]
Read More… from Episode 169: Designing & Facilitating Team Meetings: Part 2
In this first episode of a three-part series on designing and facilitating transformational PD, Elena “pulls back the curtain” and shares how she prepares to facilitate. Listen in for a detailed list of reflection questions that will help you feel confident and grounded as you walk into the next PD or team meeting you are facilitating. […]
Read More… from Episode 170: Designing PD: Reflection Before the Event
How do you support a client who has “lost their mojo?”
In this coaching conversation, Elena does so by cultivating self-compassion, engaging with curiosity, and gently challenging assumptions. You will also hear the use of trauma-informed strategies that demonstrate how a coach can support a client through an emotional experience without overstepping into the role of therapist.
Listen in for a masterclass on holding space, remaining unattached to outcomes, and trusting the process.
Note: This is the second part of the coaching conversation heard in episode 162. If you haven’t already listened to that episode, you’ll want to start there. […]
Read More… from Episode 163: Coaching Conversation: Finding Your Power
Coaching emotions is the key to Transformational Coaching. And our ACE tool is the key to coaching emotions. In this episode, Elena utilizes ACE in a coaching conversation. Listen in to hear how an exploration of emotions can unlock some profound realizations, and can be accomplished in 12 minutes! […]
Read More… from Episode 162: Coaching Conversation: ACE In Action
True celebration includes an acknowledgment of what doesn’t exist, what hasn’t happened, and what is missing. I want to implore you to celebrate all you’ve learned and done this year, but first, I encourage you to acknowledge what didn’t happen. What you didn’t accomplish. What you failed at. […]
This is the second episode in our four-part mini-series on coaching for resilience and coaching emotions. In this episode, Elena shares three resilience boosters that are sustaining her right now. Listen in to gain ideas for yourself, and approaches you can take when coaching others […]
Read More… from Episode 161: Three Resilience Boosters You Haven’t Heard Before
This is the first episode in a four-part mini-series on cultivating emotional resilience and coaching emotions.
To kick things off, Elena is sharing four things that will help you coach for resilience and discuss the power of “self-care” for educators (spoiler alert: it’s not all bubble baths and trips to the spa). […]
Read More… from Episode 160: The Role of “Self-Care” for Educators
If you want to be a Transformational Coach, you must be able to coach emotions.
If you want to coach for equity, you must be able to coach emotions.
The first step to coaching emotions is to acknowledge and normalize them. In today’s episode, Elena shares five ways to do so in your coaching conversations. […]
Read More… from Episode 159: 5 Ways to Normalize Emotions in Your Coaching Conversations
This week I encourage you to explore your relationship to joy. These are prompts I occasionally ask my clients to help them reflect on their beliefs and ways of being. You may want to add them to your coaching tool kit and offer them to your clients. […]
I’m going to offer you reflection questions, the kind I offer to my coaching clients (and so you can both reflect on them for yourself and offer them to your clients). These questions will help you reflect on your beliefs and ways of being, domains at the heart of our focus as Transformational Coaches. […]