“Aligning provides an opportunity for Changemakers/Clients to partner with coaches to explore possibilities and navigate barriers that impact growth and healing.”
― Leslie Avant-Brown
Conductors North Star Advanced Coaching Series
Aligning for Change
March 2nd - April 27, 2023, 2:30 pm – 4:30 pm PST
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
Aligning for Change provides and introduction to Blooming Willow Coaching’s signature Aligning Module that invites clients to explore the good, bad, beautiful and ugly. During this offering coaches will have an opportunity to try on strategies that support the coach to partner powerfully as the client explores insights, possibilities, barriers, and connection to new awareness.
March 2, 2023 – Supporting Awareness – Aligning Insight
+ How do coaches support clients to focus inward to tap into their power, intuition and resourcefulness? How can reflection support greater insight? What can support clients to explore the intersections of growth and healing?
March 16, 2023 – Encouraging Exploration – Aligning Possibilities
+ What is the role of coaches in inviting the unknown? How can curiosity invite new opportunities? What can support clients to let go of control as they step into a new vision?
April 13, 2023 - Exploring Barriers – Aligning Strategies
+ What support clients to step outside of set patterns? How can coaches assist client to unpack limiting beliefs? What role do coaches play in supporting clients to raise awareness of places they need to heal before growth can happen?
April 27, 2023 – Supporting Connections – Aligning New Awareness
+ How can support clients to have “AHA Moments”? What is the benefit of slowing down prior to action? How can new awareness catalyze intentional growth and healing?
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!!