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2021 Courses Now Available
 
Our training addresses these realities in the context of coaching, increasing your ability to support inclusivity through these challenges so students can work effectively with each other to express both difficult and dynamic conversations- “good trouble,” as the late John Lewis would say.

3-Day Introduction to Inclusive Coaching

This virtual event will condense five days of coaching training into three days of a flipped-classroom learning model, where you will have time outside of the class to further the learning we experience in the Zoom format.

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1-Day Intensive Crisis Coaching

This one-day, targeted edition of LifeBound coaching training will give you coaching tools to use in your work with students as they are right now.
Students are striving to cope with the pandemic and the crisis of entrenched racism while transitioning to partially- or fully-online college coursework. Coaching strategies can support students’ functioning and accountability as they face financial, social,
emotional, and academic issues in this time. 

Saturday, March 6th
CREATING INCLUSIVITY THROUGH COACHING
DIVERSITY & INCLUSION Q&A
from our LifeBound Coaches
How can coaching be inclusive of the enormous range of diversity among college students?
 
The fact that coaching is student-centered, with the conversation and process driven by the student, makes it inherently inclusive. As the student presents concern, thoughts, dilemmas, and information about themselves, the coach is led to ask questions specifically relating to the student’s unique self and situation. One element essential to the success of this process is mutual trust. When students feel seen and accepted and respected, they are more likely to put sensitive issues related to diversity and inclusion on the table during the coaching conversation.
 
How can coaching help broaden students’ understanding of one another’s diverse perspectives, experiences, and lives?
 
When an institution can broaden the coaching experience beyond faculty/staff and train peer mentors as coaches, this creates opportunities for students to interact in ways that build community and mutual understanding. Peer mentors trained in coaching strategies can use a coaching approach in their meetings with student mentees, helping the students feel comfortable sharing their own diverse selves as well as introducing personal stories, where relevant, to increase understanding. Peer mentors can also head up small group coaching sessions, which offer even more of a chance for multiple perspectives, given that several students participate at the same time.
 
What cultural competence/racial literacy/anti-racist education should a coach have? 
 
A: Beyond the DEI training that institutions may require of all faculty and staff, and an understanding of the scope of diversity coaches will encounter within the student body of their particular institution, it’s useful to have a conversation with coaches about assumptions and biases. Not only do coaches need to examine their own biases and assumptions around different students, and work to notice and dismiss them, but they would also do well to think through what assumptions students may make about them. With an understanding of the assumptions and biases in play with any coach/coachee relationship, and a willingness to examine them without judgment and work to set them aside, coaches can grow their cultural competence and racial literacy.
 
Presenter
Carol J. Carter
CEO and Founder, LifeBound
Presenter
Sarah Lyman Kravits
Master Certified Coach and Academic Coaching Scholar
Webinar:
High-Impact Summer Bridge Strategies
In this webinar, hosted by our partners at The NROC project, we'll explore the power of compact summer FYE courses, bolstered by personalized review in math and English, to improve student retention and success. Inclusive Coaching can knit together this work for advisors and faculty in ways that build strong bridges to incoming freshmen. These supports will encourage learners beginning college in 2021 to embrace self-advocacy, collaboration, respect for differences, and curiosity, all of which inform academic, work, and life choices.
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