
From ‘Me’ to ‘We’: Boldly Building Groups and Teams
Co-hosted with ICF Arizona – this event is limited to 20 tickets/Chapter.
From ‘Me’ to ‘We’: Boldly Building Groups and Teams
Carrie Sackett, MS, PCC
This experiential workshop offers 4 innovative tools for leading group and team work. Growing our capacity as coaches to foster connection, community and belonging fuels the transformative power of group work for all participants. Get ready to bounce out of your comfort zone!
- How to coach to the team/group as a single entity rather than a collection of individuals
- How to coach participants to view themselves as group/team builders
- How to build and create with differences in the group
- How practicing relationality turbocharges client’s capacity to give their embodied experience–in the moment–and transform what’s possible in team/group work
- How Life Development Groups are becoming the new niche of coaching
In a culture completely overdetermined by individualism, how can we as coaches see and lead groups? Everyone from organizational psychologist Adam Grant to Weave founder David Brooks to neuroscientist John Cacioppo has embraced the fundamentality of human sociality. Growing our capacity to connect and create with others fuels the transformative power of group work.
The question everyone is grappling with is, “What new tools must we tap into to avoid taking individual-based practice models with us into group work?” This session offers well-established, innovative, methodological answers that you can put to immediate use in your work.
Together we will explore the practical applications of social therapeutic coaching. Whether you are an executive or life coach, currently practicing or wishing to expand into group/team work, you will leave the workshop impacted by this bold approach to transformation.
Learning Objectives:
- Relationality. The ability for the coach to actively invite the group to consider how are we speaking and listening with one another? This can include inquiring of others how they are experiencing the group in the moment, or inviting someone to share the impact of others on them. This activity grounds participants’ focus in the room on what/how the group is doing. That is the material to build with when it comes to cultivating trust and the sense of belonging that drives the most successful and innovative teams. It creates the space for honest presence, emotional risk taking and therefore, emotional growth and group transformation.
- The metaphor of performance: Performing ahead of oneself. We will introduce participants to key concepts in social therapeutics that fuse discoveries in human development and improv/the tools of theater. The concepts shift us into “seeing groups” rather than a collection of individuals who happen to be in the same room together.
- Building and creating with differences. Drawing on already introduced relationally and performing ahead of oneself, we will illustrate how coaches can partner with clients to practice radical acceptance during a group session, to learn to hear offers in what someone else is saying, even if they don’t like what is being said. This is where language play comes in, assumptions get examined and new meanings get co-created by the group.
1.5 CCE units = 1.0 Core Competency + 0.5 Resource Development
Carrie Sackett is the founder of ZPD Coaching, a virtual and international practice specializing in Life Development Groups, couples and family work. Carrie has been practicing social therapeutics for 25 years-in the coach’s chair and outside the coach’s office as a Fortune 500 global change leader, an award-winning employee engagement professional and an international nonprofit executive of innovative, privately-funded youth development programs.
Carrie authored Social Therapeutic Coaching: A Practical Guide to Group and Couples Work (Routledge, 2024). She formed The Center for Group and Couples Coaching to train coaches and helping professionals in the social therapeutic method.
Carrie graduated from Duke University and received her Master’s in Strategic Communications from Columbia University. In addition to training with social therapeutics’ founders at the East Side Institute in Manhattan, she is a PCC certified coach and trained with The Somatic School in London.