Conversations at the Growing Edge Workshop, with Jennifer Garvey Berger of Cultivating Leadership

Conversations at the Growing Edge is for Coaches searching for ways for deeper listening, for asking different quesitons, thus providing more powerful coaching.

As coaches, we savor those moments when a question we’ve asked opens up new possibilities for our clients and helps them enlarge their world in some way. But what is it about those questions and how could we ask them more often? The Conversations at the Growing Edge Workshop deepens our understanding of that process and enables coaches to support our clients in entirely new ways.

Using sophisticated questioning and listening practices which emerge from adult development theories, workshop participants will learn to uncover the ways people make sense of their world and the way they understand their own stories. This new approach allows participants to support their clients as they move through developmental transitions, helping clients transform their stories and what they believe is possible.

In this intimate three-day workshop, we will explore the orders of mind described in Robert Kegan’s theory ofadult development, using interview data to unpack the nuances of the different developmental spaces. We’llbegin to understand the distinctions between skill-based issues (e.g., difficulties in making decisions) and developmentally-based issues (e.g., relying too much on the voices of others because there is no internal voice to turn to). We will practice new ways of questioning and listening. We will think and struggle and laugh and learn together. Participants will leave the workshop with the ability to support their clients—and find transformational leverage points—in an entirely different way.

Specifically, you will:

Develop a richer and more nuanced understanding of complexity of mind
Experiment with deep listening and what it means to engage in it—the demands it puts on you as a listener and the support it gives your clients
Practice a new form of questioning which gives you the sense of how someone makes sense of the world
Learn how to take clients to the edge of their meaning-making system so that they can create new possibilities for themselves.

Once you have registered we will send you an invoice for $NZ2300 plus 15% GST.

Cancellation Policy

Please also note our cancellation policy is as follows: Payment is fully refundable up to 20 business days before the start of the workshop, less a 10% processing fee; it is not refundable thereafter. If the course is under-enrolled, we reserve the right to cancel and would in that case refund your money in full.

Approved Program

Conversations at the Growing Edge qualifies for:

Core competancies 10.5 and Resource Development 11.5