Coaching for Change: Make it Stick with Experiential and Creative Approaches
Q1 Workshops:
March 2025 offering - Thursday March 20 - 1 - 4 pm ET/10 - 1 pm PT/6 - 11 pm UK
Barbados: February 17, 2025
And by popular request it is being offered to groups of 5 or more coaches at Coach Training Schools, Coaching Chapters or Peer Groups. Email us to bring us in.
Game-changing Experiential Approaches to Future Proof and Boost Your Coaching Business in the Era of AI
The world of work, and coaching, is changing quite quickly. What are you noticing about what your clients want and what they are finding value with in their work?
Recently the World Economic Forum released it’s Future of Jobs Report 2030. The skill gap between where we are now, and what is going to be needed in the future is quite significant. It’s also pointing to the need and emphasis on a number of skill areas. On their top 10 list of note is:
#2 – Resilience, Flexibility and Agility
#3 – Leadership and Social Influence
#4 – Creativity
#5 - Motivation and Self-awareness
This is where the Conversation Sparkers and Reconnecting Workspaces come in. For many years my work as a leader in the coaching space has been about pushing the boundaries of what coaching looks like and sounds like.
In 2006 that meant launching the Group Coaching Essentials training, shifting the boundary of coaching from 1-1 to group
In 2010 I started offering Team Coaching Intensives, following it up in 2013 with the From One to Many Book
2017 it was Effective Virtual Conversations leading the way in which we create engaging virtual conersations
And 2018, PlanDoTrack -a resource for remote professionals
2021 it was Reconnecting Workspaces - a handbook for navigating the changing world of work.
We are now at another inflection point – this one a congruence of factors leading to change – from geopolitical events to climate and the inlufence of AI, our clients worlds are changing
With complexity comes the need to do something different. It's about going back to the basics and building/creating from what is. At the same time, exploring many of the topics above require different ways of coaching.
Creative and Experiential approaches are going to be the focus of a series of Quarterly Workshops in 2025 under the Conversation Sparker Experiential Roadshow.
Future Proof your Coaching by Boosting Your Creative and Experiential Approaches to Coaching
Monday February 17th - 2 - 5pm ET
In just 3 power-packed hours, we’ll:
✅ Explore how ENGAGEMENT, INTERACTION, and MEMORABILITY are evolving in the world of our clients – and how you can stay ahead of the curve.
✅ Dive into the Experiential Process – learn simple ways to integrate this powerful tool into your coaching or leadership style.
✅ Discover how to align your coaching strengths and superpowers to boost memorability and sustainable change.
✅ Experiment with innovative, and experiential, coaching tools like the Reconnecting Workspaces Dice, Conversation Sparker Charms, and our digital/physical 90-Day Guide and journaling card decks.
✅ Start building your creative, experiential toolkit to stand out in the coaching world.
This interactive, practical workshop is perfect for coaches looking to:
✨ Make their group coaching, team meetings, and retreats stickier and more impactful.
✨ Cut through the noise and boost memorability with clients
✨ Create more sustainable change for their clients
✨ Explore creative and innovative coaching tools while leaning into their natural coaching strengths.
This program is for you if you:
The world of work, and coaching, is changing quite quickly. What are you noticing about what your clients want and what they are finding value with in their work?
Recently the World Economic Forum released it’s Future of Jobs Report 2030. The skill gap between where we are now, and what is going to be needed in the future is quite significant. It’s also pointing to the need and emphasis on a number of skill areas. On their top 10 list of note is:
#2 – Resilience, Flexibility and Agility
#3 – Leadership and Social Influence
#4 – Creativity
#5 - Motivation and Self-awareness
This is where the Conversation Sparkers and Reconnecting Workspaces come in. For many years my work as a leader in the coaching space has been about pushing the boundaries of what coaching looks like and sounds like.
In 2006 that meant launching the Group Coaching Essentials training, shifting the boundary of coaching from 1-1 to group
In 2010 I started offering Team Coaching Intensives, following it up in 2013 with the From One to Many Book
2017 it was Effective Virtual Conversations leading the way in which we create engaging virtual conersations
And 2018, PlanDoTrack -a resource for remote professionals
2021 it was Reconnecting Workspaces - a handbook for navigating the changing world of work.
We are now at another inflection point – this one a congruence of factors leading to change – from geopolitical events to climate and the inlufence of AI, our clients worlds are changing
With complexity comes the need to do something different. It's about going back to the basics and building/creating from what is. At the same time, exploring many of the topics above require different ways of coaching.
Creative and Experiential approaches are going to be the focus of a series of Quarterly Workshops in 2025 under the Conversation Sparker Experiential Roadshow.
Future Proof your Coaching by Boosting Your Creative and Experiential Approaches to Coaching
Monday February 17th - 2 - 5pm ET
In just 3 power-packed hours, we’ll:
✅ Explore how ENGAGEMENT, INTERACTION, and MEMORABILITY are evolving in the world of our clients – and how you can stay ahead of the curve.
✅ Dive into the Experiential Process – learn simple ways to integrate this powerful tool into your coaching or leadership style.
✅ Discover how to align your coaching strengths and superpowers to boost memorability and sustainable change.
✅ Experiment with innovative, and experiential, coaching tools like the Reconnecting Workspaces Dice, Conversation Sparker Charms, and our digital/physical 90-Day Guide and journaling card decks.
✅ Start building your creative, experiential toolkit to stand out in the coaching world.
This interactive, practical workshop is perfect for coaches looking to:
✨ Make their group coaching, team meetings, and retreats stickier and more impactful.
✨ Cut through the noise and boost memorability with clients
✨ Create more sustainable change for their clients
✨ Explore creative and innovative coaching tools while leaning into their natural coaching strengths.
This program is for you if you:
- Really want to build on your foundational and possibly advanced coaching toolkit with a variety of creative approaches
- You notice that the levels of trust, safety and connection are continuing to shift in the rooms you coach and lead in, and are looking for different ways to engage people.
- You are ready for more approaches and techniques to support your clients with science-based approaches.
- You are on the journey to coaching mastery, which recognizes that our growth as a coach continues past year one, and decade one.
- It’s time to get out of the rut of coaching the same way, and to jazz it up.
- Stretch and flow is important to you by doing something new.
- You want a business that thrives, possibly being driven by referrals. The biggest impact for your client is likely to be able to connect with a diverse group and team in different ways, so that everyone has a voice and can be heard in different ways.
- You are looking for in person, virtual and sometimes hybrid approaches to coach individuals, groups and teams.
Join us for the March 20th workshop - EARLY BIRD RATE OF $197 US (this also includes a post-call in early April and on-demand content) - Early Bird until March 13th
Like many of the coaches I work with, you’ve probably discerning about what you learn and how you learn.
How does your training differ: The science of change is at the core of everything we do here at Potentials Realized. Our work is grounded in cognitive psychology, adult education, critical education, environmental systems approaches, as well as experience in working on the range of sustainable change from the individual level, team, group, organization, region, national and even global levels of change.
Why is this training important, now in 2025?
Just like coaches bring different skills and superpowers, our clients also benefit from a variety of approaches. No one client is the same, and when working in the realm of Coaching Many it can be important to have a diverse toolkit to draw upon.
Also, the changes in the world are providing an opportunity for people to turn to “safe spaces” to explore their opportunities and challenges. Coaching is a critical, and confidential, hub for people to share the ups and downs of their experience and life. As coaches we are not there to solve problems, rather to provide a space for people to explore what truly matters.
When we are able to build from self, which is the heart of the experiential process, we are able to be seen and understood.
How will I be able to apply this?
I know you may be concerned that this is another training that you will take without applying. I’m confident that this will stick, just like the name implies, as these are important tweaks that you can make to individual, group and team conversation. We’ll be modeliing the experiential process so that there will be some training BEFORE the session, and some AFTER the session, to keep that learning alive.
Do I need another training? In a changing context it’s always good to have something that can be applied in many different conversations. Experiential approaches build on the clients we work with. Most, if not all, of these approaches will work for a wide range of topics – from reliance, to burnout, to career issues to conflict. I’ve been using them, and training coaches on them, some for decades, and at very least for years.
Will these work in virtual and in-person environments? Yes, I’ve tested these in both virtual, in person and also hybrid environments.
Why is this just a short program?
This workshop can be taken as a one-off program. It’s likely that at some point you’ve taken some additional training as a coach. The introduction of the Quarterly Playshops under the Experiential Roadshow™ is to provide a mobile, and organic, series of quarterly workshops. Given the rate of change it is intended that these shorter workshop themes will grow organically.
We offer longer workshops to coaches as part of our ICF-CCE approved programs. As a seasoned coach education company, training coaches since 2006, we know that the development of the coach continues across their lifespan. This programming is not CCE approved at present, however, if there is interest we may get them reviewed for CCEs.
Will I get a set of the DICE, CARDS and other products?
We'll be working with our products during the virtual or in person session and they will be available to you as an attendee at a special FOUNDERS rate for a new annual membership I'll be offering which will consist of a quarterly tool, a workshop, and tools you can bring in.
If you want
Imagine if….
You had a community of others to connect with and you had a variety of tools and creative approaches to explore?
You didn't have to do the same thing each hour
A little bit about the Conversation Sparker™ Suite of Products
Originally introduced in 2014, the Conversation Sparker™ Cards have found their way around the world to coaches, trainers and organizations as diverse as the Chicago Symphony, Saskatchewan Farmer's Coops, and multiple other businesses.
The Conversation Sparker™ Cards and products have grown from that first deck to now include:
For those that are interested in the products and ONGOING resources around Coaching and Change from an experiential lens, join us for the Conversation Sparker EXPERIENTIAL ROADSHOW MEMBERSHIP - 12 months of focus on you and your Change Toolkit.
You'll receive:
A quarterly creative coaching tool in the Change Box, Connection Box, (4 resources each year)
A quarterly half day workshop with this Coaching and Change: Make it Stick as the first one (4 half day workshops)
A quarterly 90 minute masterclass on each of the 4 quarterly bools (4 masterclasses a year)
Cost - FOUNDERS RATE in March 2025 - $97 US per month for 12 months or pay in one installment of $997 and get 2 months free
How does your training differ: The science of change is at the core of everything we do here at Potentials Realized. Our work is grounded in cognitive psychology, adult education, critical education, environmental systems approaches, as well as experience in working on the range of sustainable change from the individual level, team, group, organization, region, national and even global levels of change.
Why is this training important, now in 2025?
Just like coaches bring different skills and superpowers, our clients also benefit from a variety of approaches. No one client is the same, and when working in the realm of Coaching Many it can be important to have a diverse toolkit to draw upon.
Also, the changes in the world are providing an opportunity for people to turn to “safe spaces” to explore their opportunities and challenges. Coaching is a critical, and confidential, hub for people to share the ups and downs of their experience and life. As coaches we are not there to solve problems, rather to provide a space for people to explore what truly matters.
When we are able to build from self, which is the heart of the experiential process, we are able to be seen and understood.
How will I be able to apply this?
I know you may be concerned that this is another training that you will take without applying. I’m confident that this will stick, just like the name implies, as these are important tweaks that you can make to individual, group and team conversation. We’ll be modeliing the experiential process so that there will be some training BEFORE the session, and some AFTER the session, to keep that learning alive.
Do I need another training? In a changing context it’s always good to have something that can be applied in many different conversations. Experiential approaches build on the clients we work with. Most, if not all, of these approaches will work for a wide range of topics – from reliance, to burnout, to career issues to conflict. I’ve been using them, and training coaches on them, some for decades, and at very least for years.
Will these work in virtual and in-person environments? Yes, I’ve tested these in both virtual, in person and also hybrid environments.
Why is this just a short program?
This workshop can be taken as a one-off program. It’s likely that at some point you’ve taken some additional training as a coach. The introduction of the Quarterly Playshops under the Experiential Roadshow™ is to provide a mobile, and organic, series of quarterly workshops. Given the rate of change it is intended that these shorter workshop themes will grow organically.
We offer longer workshops to coaches as part of our ICF-CCE approved programs. As a seasoned coach education company, training coaches since 2006, we know that the development of the coach continues across their lifespan. This programming is not CCE approved at present, however, if there is interest we may get them reviewed for CCEs.
Will I get a set of the DICE, CARDS and other products?
We'll be working with our products during the virtual or in person session and they will be available to you as an attendee at a special FOUNDERS rate for a new annual membership I'll be offering which will consist of a quarterly tool, a workshop, and tools you can bring in.
If you want
Imagine if….
You had a community of others to connect with and you had a variety of tools and creative approaches to explore?
You didn't have to do the same thing each hour
A little bit about the Conversation Sparker™ Suite of Products
Originally introduced in 2014, the Conversation Sparker™ Cards have found their way around the world to coaches, trainers and organizations as diverse as the Chicago Symphony, Saskatchewan Farmer's Coops, and multiple other businesses.
The Conversation Sparker™ Cards and products have grown from that first deck to now include:
- The 40 Ways to Work with visual Cards E-book (40 sets of facilitated instructions on how to lead with any visual car deck) - Available at the Potentials Realized Store
- The Teams365 Sparkers
- The Journaling Square Deck Sparkers
- The Conversation Sparker Charms
- The REconnecting Workspaces Dice - Being launched at this workshop!
For those that are interested in the products and ONGOING resources around Coaching and Change from an experiential lens, join us for the Conversation Sparker EXPERIENTIAL ROADSHOW MEMBERSHIP - 12 months of focus on you and your Change Toolkit.
You'll receive:
A quarterly creative coaching tool in the Change Box, Connection Box, (4 resources each year)
A quarterly half day workshop with this Coaching and Change: Make it Stick as the first one (4 half day workshops)
A quarterly 90 minute masterclass on each of the 4 quarterly bools (4 masterclasses a year)
Cost - FOUNDERS RATE in March 2025 - $97 US per month for 12 months or pay in one installment of $997 and get 2 months free
Why the Conversation Sparker Tools - Dice, Charms, Cards
We are living in times of unprecedented change - from economics, to geopolitical events, climate issues, AI and changes in the workplace. As coaches we are on the frontline of many of these changes, holding the space for conversations, tensions, exploration and next steps for our clients.
We know that these are not just FUN Toys but are founded in science. Change is a multi-layered process and it can be challenging and not always a direct route to get at the deeper layers of change like mindsets, assumptions, belief systems, especially in groups and teams.
Creative approaches embodied within the Conversation Sparker Charms:
Creative tools like card decks and dice, along with many other experiential processes can act as a bridge, unlocking new ideas, insights and wisdom n our clients.
Set up a call with Jennifer to learn more about the Experiential Roadshow Membership
We know that these are not just FUN Toys but are founded in science. Change is a multi-layered process and it can be challenging and not always a direct route to get at the deeper layers of change like mindsets, assumptions, belief systems, especially in groups and teams.
Creative approaches embodied within the Conversation Sparker Charms:
- Encourage Adaptive Thinking
- Enhances Problem Solving
- Builds Resilience and Optimism
- Strengthens collaboration
- Inspires Innovation
- Builds Psychological Safety
- Brings people in as a full self - head, heart, guts, hands and feet
- Engages imagination and possibilities
- Supports long term retention and growth.
Creative tools like card decks and dice, along with many other experiential processes can act as a bridge, unlocking new ideas, insights and wisdom n our clients.
Set up a call with Jennifer to learn more about the Experiential Roadshow Membership
Workshop ONLY - Join us on March 20th from 1 pm- 4 pm ET online - $497 US (Full Price)
QUESTIONS? Set up a call via Calendly or reach out directly to Jennifer at 416.996.8326