“Healing Centered Action creates an opportunity for the Changemaker/Client to identify next steps that support their continued growth and healing beyond the session.”
― Leslie Avant-Brown
Conductors North Star Advanced Coaching Series
Catalyzing Healing Centered Action
Dates TBA
Bi-Weekly on Thursday’s
Cost: $500 or $2000 for the four part series
The course provides up to 10 International Coaching Federation Continued Coach Education Units
Catalyzing Healing Centered Action serves as the closing of Blooming Willow Coaching’s signature Healing Centered Coaching Model. This offering provides an introduction to tools that catalyze clients action and centers their healing to provide holistic support. Throughout this offering students will build skills to encourage the client to identity energizing next steps as they move towards their Healing Centered North Star (Goal), including identifying a clear plan, resources and accountability to support movement.
TBA – Identifying Next Steps – Acting with a Healing Center
+How does reflection support connection? What is the role of the coach in supporting brainstorming? How can coaches support healing centered action?
TBA – Plotting Healing Centered North Stars – Acting with Intention
+What is a Healing Centered North Star? How are coaches supporting energetic planning? What role does healing play in action? How do Healing Centered North stars support growth and healing?
TBA – Deepening Resources – Acting with Partnership
+ How do clients identify resources to support action? What is the role of a coach in inviting resource development? How do Healing Centered Coaches partner short and long term?
TBA – Celebrating Success – Acting with Accountability
+ How are clients held accountable for growth and healing? What does accountability look and feel like in a Healing Centered Coaching partnership? How are coach and client honoring the action while celebrating success? What does it mean for a goal to include outcomes for doing and being?
Faculty
Leslie Avant-Brown, MPA, MCC
Leslie Avant-Brown, MPA, MCC
CEO - Principal Owner
Leslie Avant-Brown is an innovator, facilitator, coach and thought leader within movement work. Her relentless desire to fuel systems change in support of vulnerable communities has changed the fabric of this work. With her down to earth demeanor, she brings a unique mix of laughter, curiosity, healing, creativity and strategy to support conductors of change – those who are designing innovative strategies that benefit future generations. She believes that moving beyond traditional leadership approaches will revolutionize the way that people work and thrive. “I have dedicated my life to supporting communities to build trust, identify new leadership, increase diversity of voice and choice, incorporate growth and healing strategies and build sustainably. I do this because I know, what we plant today will bloom tomorrow.”
In 2016, through a partnership with Beyond Emancipation, her CCRW Coaching Model (focused on foster and probation youth) received the notorious International Coaching Federation Prism Award Honorable Mention (Coming 2nd only to Coca-Cola Russia) for its innovative design supporting culture change. She went on to support the development of an ICF Accredited, Community Coaching Certification Program at Leadership that Works, the first of its kind. Through this pioneering effort, she certified over 100 coaches in this new community accreditation, radically shifting how communities are supported through coaching.
Leslie serves as CEO at her firm Blooming Willow Coaching, a culturally relevant, Healing Centered Coaching practice that allows her to partner with individuals, organizations and businesses. Her specialization areas include “all things” coaching including: one-on-one and group coaching, coaching facilitation, coach training, and designing sustainable coaching models that support growth and healing in communities.
Previously, she worked as the International Program Director for Leadership that Works, and supported the development, implementation and facilitation of cutting edge coaching programs that supported value-driven transformation in India, Europe and the United States.
Prior to earning her coaching certification Leslie worked in the nonprofit capacity building sector, supporting work that promoted social justice -- she has a background in leadership development and evaluation. “What brought me to the field of coaching was the idea of supporting deep change while aligning my strengths to support conductors of change.”
Leslie received her professional coaching certification through Leadership that Works and holds a Master of Public Administration from the University of Michigan. In her free time, Leslie enjoys finding new adventures, spending time with her wife, belly laughing, eating delicious food and of course creating!!