PRESENTS
February 11 – June 24, 2020
LIVE ONLINE COACH TRAINING
The Art of Developmental Coaching

A journey of profound human growth
You may not realize this. But reality is not what it seems.
There is an invisible force that determines how we see ourselves and the world. It underlies every single coaching conversation that we will ever have.
Just as the eye cannot see itself, your clients cannot see the window frame through which they see their own world.
And because of this invisible frame, the stories they tell themselves exert tremendous control over them. They keeping them from seeing ways out of their dilemmas, and blocking the way forward toward their dreams.
But what if you could make the invisible visible? What if you could illuminate what’s really going on for your clients?
What if you could know – intimately – a process at the heart of human change?
What if you could grasp, why a conversation creates a profound shift in one client, and falls flat with another?
There is a body of work and wisdom, drawing upon decades of research that can answer these questions.
It is a rigorous map, developed by pioneering psychologists over five decades, that shows how human beings actually grow and develop over their lifetime. And when you as a coach learn to work from this approach, you can understand your clients in a profoundly new way.
- You can meet them where they’re truly at, so they feel deeply seen.
- You can help them shift their entire worldview.
- You can help them make the changes that they so deeply want to make.
We invite you to join us, and enroll in the Art of Developmental Coaching.
16 Live Video Workshops

Earn 24 CCEUs
Integration Workbooks and Transcripts
Bonus Materials
Fully Downloadable
Experiential Practices
Meet the faculty for this training.
We’ve gathered a faculty that as far as we’re concerned, are the best in the world in this area. These coaches have decades of experience applying the rich models of adult development to their work with CEOs, entrepreneurs, leaders and artists.


Jennifer’s ‘Growth Edge Coaching’ approach, which she describes in her book, Changing on the Job, has been developed over the last decade and underpins her work with leaders and organizations. She also has a masters and a doctorate from Harvard University.


Bob is a pioneer in the field of leadership development & research and is the Founder and Chairman of The Leadership Circle. He’s spent more than 35 years exploring the intersection between leadership, competence and consciousness. He holds a Bachelor’s Degree from Carroll University and a Masters from Bowling Green State University.


Robert is one of the most important thinkers in adult development in the world. He is on the faculty at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, co-founded Minds at Work, and is the author of six books. He has been a trusted advisor to the CEOs of some of the world’s biggest businesses.

Bebe is the Principal of Presence-Based® Coaching, teaches all levels of this ICF approved certification program, and supports students through the certification process.

Carolyn has been an executive coach, facilitator, and leadership development specialist for over 15 years. Together with Jennifer, Carolyn co-designed and runs the Growth Edge Certification series. She has an MBA from the Wharton School, and a Masters from the University of Pennsylvania.


Rob McNamara is a Teaching Fellow at Harvard University, a Leadership Coach and author of The Elegant Self. He is a leading expert on adult development and human performance, and holds a Masters in Transpersonal Counseling Psychology from Naropa University.

Beena is Co-Founder and President of Vertical Development Academy, where she works with Suzanne Cook-Greuter. She has been a coach and consultant to business leaders for 13 years where she blends developmental theory and Integral approaches in human and system development.


Spring Cheng is the co-founder of Resonance Path Institute, a non-profit organization based in Seattle that pioneers research and practice to restore the sensing-feeling-Self to serve the emergence of collective consciousness and wholesome social organizations.
Learn the transformative art of developmental coaching
The Art of Developmental Coaching is a 20-week online coach training.
It’s designed to equip you with tools and maps to help your clients go beneath the surface of their goals and frustrations, into the domain of deep change.
It will help you make the invisible visible, showing your clients the developmental pathway that leads away from their dilemmas and frustrations, toward the deep changes that truly matter to them.
This practice of developmental coaching can enable you to…
- Free your clients from the restrictive lenses through which they see and interact with the world around them.
- Uncover the invisible meaning-making structures of your clients, so they feel deeply seen and understood.
- Learn how to release your clients from a reactive mindset, and free them to create their life and desires.
And it’s not only your clients that will change. You will too.
You see, you can’t not evolve personally as you go through this program. The curriculum will guide you to find your own limits, become aware of your own blinders, and release you from patterns that might be keeping you from making the impact you want to make with your clients.
You’ll learn from some of the world’s experts on developmental change – men and women who have a rich and sophisticated command of the theory, yet who have dedicated themselves to the application of this work as coaches, consultants and leaders.
Together they will teach you the transformative art of developmental coaching.

A live and interactive experience
We’ve Created an Integrated Learning Journey for You.
This will be our fifth time running this powerful program—we’ve had nearly 2,000 coaches graduate—and we’re excited for this newest version!
Like all our courses, The Art of Developmental Coaching is carefully designed to help you learn this powerful coaching methodology.
Each workshop brings in new, critical skills that build on the previous material. Rather than a series of unconnected workshops that require you to knit them together yourself, the core of this course will guide you through an integrated arc that builds on itself, teaching you the potent art of developmental coaching.
The first 3 modules consist of 3-5 live workshops that build on one another, taught by our core faculty. This will be followed by module 4, featuring methods complimentary to the core trajectory of the first 3 modules.


MODULE 1


The Developmental Landscape
with Jennifer Garvey Berger & Carolyn Coughlin
In the first module, Jennifer and Carolyn will introduce you to the key principles of developmental coaching. You’ll learn how to identify the 3 most common developmental stages, how to listen for deep structure rather than content, and how to engage your clients developmental growth edge.
MODULE 2


The Dynamics of Change
with Carolyn Coughlin & Bebe Hansen
In the second module, Carolyn and Bebe will take you deeply into the core process that enables development: the subject-object move. You’ll learn how to engage the full somatic and cognitive dimensions of your client, helping them see the hidden ways they create the world around them.
MODULE 3

Creating Leaps in Consciousness
with Bob Anderson
In the third module, Bob will show you how you can effectively and compassionately support development at and between specific stages. You’ll learn the two key shifts that the vast majority of your clients make developmentally, and you’ll explore how to work at the higher stages with grace.
MODULE 4




Unique Perspectives on Developmental Coaching
with Robert Kegan, Been Sharma, Rob McNamara & Spring Cheng
In this final module, you will learn powerful methods complimentary to the core trajectory of modules one, two and three, bringing fresh perspectives and enriching your understanding of this powerful practice of developmental coaching.
What You Will Learn During the Training
MODULE 1
Understanding the Terrain of Adult Development
WORKSHOP 1
Understanding the Terrain of Adult Development
with Jennifer Garvey Berger
7:00-8:30 PM Central European
- Gain an understanding of the 3 most common stages of adult growth, allowing you to clearly identify the developmental arc your clients are making.
- Learn how these different stages processes thoughts and feelings, enabling you to attune your coaching to your client’s specific needs.
- Understand the trajectory of growth that moves us from one stage to the next, allowing you to guide your clients skillfully and confidently.
Listening for Meaning
WORKSHOP 2
Listening for Meaning
with Jennifer Garvey Berger
7:00-8:30 PM Central European
- Differentiate between listening for surface story and listening for deep structure within your coaching conversations, allowing you to point your client to what’s most important.
- Learn how to ask coaching questions that help you identify your clients’ current growth edge, enabling you to support them in taking the next step on their developmental journey.
- Explore listening techniques and questions that uncover and activate that edge, so that you can boost your clients’ development and effectiveness.
Listening into Our Bodies
WORKSHOP 3
Listening into Our Bodies
with Carolyn Coughlin
9:00-10:30 PM Central European
- Understand how we make meaning, through a co-arising of thoughts, feelings and language, enabling you to appreciate the complexity of your client’s experience.
- Learn to listen deeply to the meaning making that happens through the body, giving you access to a deeper understanding of your client.
- Gain a new sense of what it means to listen to our bodies and learn tools to develop and practice it.
Escaping Leadership Mind-traps
WORKSHOP 4
Escaping Leadership Mind-traps
with Jennifer Garvey Berger
7:00-8:30 PM Central European
- Understand why our human minds are designed for a less connected, more predictable world, and how we need to purposely reshape it for the future.
- Explore the common “mind-traps” that we possess—automatic shortcuts in thinking, that are no longer helpful in today’s world.
- Learn how to identify these common “mind-traps” and the keys that unlock them, allowing you to support your client in escaping into new possibilities.
Habits of Mind
WORKSHOP 5
Habits of Mind
with Jennifer Garvey Berger
7:00-8:30 PM Central European
- Understand how to intentionally design practices for your clients that explicitly help them transform developmentally.
- Learn the 3 habits of mind that underpin development, enabling you to create optimum conditions for your clients to grow.
- Discover how to think about your own growth in such a way that your capacity to be a guide for your clients continues to develop.
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MODULE 2
Cultivating Complexity Fitness
WORKSHOP 6
Cultivating Complexity Fitness
with Carolyn Coughlin
7:00-8:30 PM Central European
- Distinguish three levels of scale available in every moment – soma, identity, and context – so you can better understand the types of challenge your clients face.
- Practice with specific coaching tools that enable you to explore your and your client’s experience on each of these levels.
- Learn how to bridge the disorienting gap between our habitual, predictable patterns and the complex and unpredictable world.
Working in the Present Moment
WORKSHOP 7
Working in the Present Moment
with Bebe Hansen
7:00-8:30 PM Central European
- Understand the core developmental move: helping clients shift from unseen and unexamined identity, to visible and observable identity.
- Practice specific coaching moves and increase your awareness, nimbleness and capacity to work with complexity.
- Learn how to cultivate both your and your client’s presence enabling a more grounded awareness of what’s happening in any moment.
The Power of Being and the Body
WORKSHOP 8
The Power of Being and the Body
with Bebe Hansen
7:00-8:30 PM Central European
- Explore the “meta-competencies” of sensing and being, giving you a fuller appreciation than the common doing focussed coaching models.
- Learn how to build your capacity for sensing and being, enabling you to help your client create more reliable results with their coaching goals.
- Discover how to notice your client’s bodily posture, enabling you to monitor its alignment with (or against) their stated goals.
Cultivate Complexity Fitness in Organizations
WORKSHOP 9
Cultivate Complexity Fitness in Organizations
with Carolyn Coughlin
7:00-8:30 PM Central European
- Explore the importance of being able to stay present in the unpredictable and uncontrollable contexts we so often now find ourselves in.
- Learn three simple conditions that help cultivating a complexity-fit culture in organisations, and the practices that amplify these conditions.
- Discover how to help your clients stay present in the dissonance of complexity, and resist the urge to revert to familiar and unhelpful patterns.
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MODULE 3
Supporting the Heroic Journey from Reaction to Creativity
WORKSHOP 10
Supporting the Heroic Journey from Reaction to Creativity
with Bob Anderson
7:00-8:30 PM Central European
- Learn the fundamental shift in identity between a reactive to creative way of being, enabling you to see this crucial development in your clients more clearly.
- Discover how to recognize the polarity between purpose and safety, so that you can support clients in any significant “step up” into living and leading more fully.
- Learn the tools and practices that are most effective in supporting the shift in consciousness from reactive to creative.
Essential Tools for Supporting Your Clients Development
WORKSHOP 11
Essential Tools for Supporting Your Clients Development
with Bob Anderson
7:00-8:30 PM Central European
- Learn to distill the deeper personal yearning beneath what your client is wanting, so you can cut beneath the surface and work on a more transformational level.
- Discover how to help your clients uncover the developmental lesson embedded in their problems, giving them the tools to help themselves.
- Practice uncovering and reframing reactive self-limiting assumptions, so that your clients are no longer trapped in a play-not-to-lose game.
Integral Self Informed by Grace
WORKSHOP 12
Integral Self Informed by Grace
with Bob Anderson
7:00-8:30 PM Central European
- Learn how to support shifts at the highest stages of development, enabling you to make room for that which is larger/deeper than you.
- Practice supporting the intuitive capability that comes online at the higher stages, allowing you to give your clients greater trust in their decisions and inner knowing.
- Inquire what it means to be informed by Grace, giving you and your clients connection with the unity of consciousness.
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MODULE 4
Coaching Organizations to Grow
WORKSHOP 13
Coaching Organizations to Grow
with Robert Kegan
7:00-8:30 PM Central European
- Learn a new model for unleashing human and organizational development that is already changing leading edge companies.
- Understand the core features of a company culture that allows employees to show up as themselves, and contribute fully to company growth.
- Explore how you as a coach can support leaders who want to introduce growth oriented culture in their organizations.
Tailoring Coaching for Vertical Development
WORKSHOP 14
Tailoring Coaching for Vertical Development
with Beena Sharma
7:00-8:30 PM Central European
- Learn to recognize developmental movement between stages enabling you to tailor your coaching specifically for each client.
- Understand how each stage of development navigates polarities and paradoxes, allowing you to help your clients with their specific dilemmas.
- Discover how to interpret your own developmental trajectory allowing greater self-directed growth in yourself.
Growth Beyond Autonomy: Cultivating Human Elegance
WORKSHOP 15
Growth Beyond Autonomy: Cultivating Human Elegance
with Rob McNamara
7:00-8:30 PM Central European
- Discover how to navigate some of the common obstacles hindering more complex forms of meaning-making and action.
- Understand where and how focusing on achievement can obstruct growth and development.
- Practice how to leverage unconditioned completeness to facilitate greater human elegance within yourself and your clients.
A Holistic Paradigm for Human Development
WORKSHOP 16
A Holistic Paradigm for Human Development
with Spring Cheng
7:00-8:30 PM Central European
- Discover how an integration of Taoist wisdom and modern western practices gives a fresh perspective on adult development.
- Learn how to look at development as a holistic system, broadening the lens from simply an upward movement, to include the downward movement.
- Explore how to trust your intuitive, somatic and instincts in situations where knowing fails, giving you access to a more holistic range of knowledge.
And You’ll Get These Bonus Recordings.
These are past workshops from previous versions of the training. For each one you will receive the full workshop recordings, transcript and any relevant handouts.
Adult Development as the Evolution of Consciousness
- Gain an understanding of the 3 most common stages of growth, allowing you to see the developmental arc your clients are on.
- Learn how each of these stages processes thoughts, feelings and social relationships differently, enabling you to attune your coaching to these fundamental differences.
- Examine the common motion of growth that moves us from one stage to the next, so that you can be a better guide to your clients no matter where they are on the developmental journey.
The 9 Panes: Development through Presence and Perspective-taking
- Discover how the new Nine Panes developmental framework allows you and your clients to shift perspectives more fluidly and meet complex challenges with increased resilience and clarity.
- Learn how to infuse the moment-to-moment activities of Sensing, Being and Acting with awareness, so that they become powerful doorways for development for you and your clients.
- Expand this new awareness to include not only your client’s sense of self or Identity, but also their soma and the bigger contexts they find themselves in.
Sensing and the Making of Meaning
- Learn how to identify the elements of complexity that challenge your client’s identity and the habitual reactions these evoke.
- Learn how to increase your somatic awareness, so that you can refine your client’s capacity to stay present and resilient in the face of these developmental challenges.
- Learn specific developmental coaching tools that help your clients see the way they see themselves and the world, so that they open up to developmentally bigger perspectives and possibilities.
Being with Presence
- Discover how to gain greater mastery over your inner states, allowing you to unlock the key to resilience and embodied commitments.
- Distinguish between habit states and resilient states, so that your clients can de-link their inner state from the context they find themselves in and remain centered and at choice.
- Practice presence-based coaching moves that help your clients “catch their habits in the act”, so that they are free to not enact them and choose more creative and resilient alternatives.
Acting with Presence
- Examine the relationship between inner states, urges and actions, so that you can leverage the choice point that exists between the arising of an urge and an actual action.
- Develop specific coaching moves that invite your clients to take new actions that are more appropriate to meet their current challenges and that will produce the future they most deeply care about.
Overcoming Your Immunity to Change with Presence
- Understand why we naturally immunize ourselves against changes that our conscious minds want to make.
- Explore your own hidden commitments and assumptions that will compete with the changes you try to create.
- Practice specific exercises designed to help us overturn our immunity to change and seize the opportunity to further our own development.
Overturning a Psychological Immune System for Developmental Growth
- Explore the Immunity to Change map and learn how to make connections between the immune system and developmental capacity.
- Consider the “data” that could overturn the immune system and make a plan (a “test”) designed to generate this type of data.
- Explore the relationship between making progress on one’s stated improvement goals and in developing greater psychological complexity.
Holding Ourselves with Humor and Lightness with Presence
- Learn how to take your professional-self less seriously, allowing you to forgive and even smile at your yearning for perfection.
- Discover how to foster growth and healing by modelling kindness and equanimity towards self and others.
- Learn practices that increase lightness for those of us who are not born with a funny bone.
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