Coaches Rising

Elena Tochilina, coach blending somatic and leadership work; Vytautas Buciunas, leadership consultant and resilience trainer; Dana Karman, trauma-informed embodied facilitator. They discuss life in wartime Ukraine, survival realities and simple gratitude. They explore community creativity, practical spirituality, somatic and polyvagal practices, and how inner work becomes collective action and leadership under crisis.

Lisa Doig, founder of Corporate Evolution and creator of the Illuminate facilitator training, integrates values and levels of consciousness into leadership and coaching. She discusses how values form from early beliefs, practices to surface and transform limiting beliefs, and ways to embody values through prototypes, intuition, and weekly alignment practices.

Marvin Oka, an international consultant and neurobehavioral modeler focused on leadership and systemic change. He explores neurobehavioral modeling, the tension between stability and integration, four types of change, levels of learning and generative inquiry. Short practical practices on disidentification, metacognition, embodied integration, and how to create conditions that let whole systems reorganize.

Amy Elizabeth Fox, leadership advisor and CEO pioneering trauma-informed change. Nicholas Janni, leadership coach exploring embodied presence and spiritual leadership. They discuss leading through chaos, healing organizational trauma, somatic practices to widen perception, the balance of directive versus facilitative coaching, and how leaders can become transmitting presence and blessing fields.

In this conversation with Jeremy D. Johnson we explore how integral futuring can help us navigate the temporal complexity of the polycrisis and restore a living relationship with the future. Together we look at the practices of tending latent possibilities, weaving time, and cultivating the anticipatory desire that fuels meaningful cultural transformation.For more resources, visit the podcast episode page at https://www.coachesrising.com/podcast/integral-futuring-with-jeremy-d-johnson/Dive deeper into transformational coaching with us…Get Free Access to our Transformational Coaching Masterclass with Staci Haines — The Body Knows the Way: An embodied approach to coaching in times of collective uncertainty and stress. Staci will show you how to unlock the wisdom of the body so you can help your clients transform reactivity into resilience — even in the face of today’s challenges. Learn more and get the recording here. Doors are now open for The Power of Embodied Transformation — our in-depth online coach training that gives you access to the most powerful change technology available to us as coaches — the human body itself. Unlock the intelligence of the body so you can create lasting change with your clients. Learn more and book your spot here. 

Rebecca Hinds, organizational behavior and future-of-work expert and author of Your Best Meeting Ever, shares practical approaches to redesigning meetings for clarity and momentum. She covers meeting rhythms and timing, the Four D test for when to meet, moving updates asynchronous, structured brainstorming, small design tweaks with big impact, and how AI can help or harm collaboration.

Joel Monk, coach, author and somatic facilitator, champions embodied approaches to transformation. He explains why embodiment is now essential, not optional. He outlines the somatic arc of change and why the body holds lasting change. He shares two simple practices to bring topics into the body and to recall joy as an embodied guide for decisions.

Christina Congleton, a leadership coach and author with an Ed.M. in human development and psychology from Harvard, explores developmental psychology and how cultural forces shape burnout and narcissism. She discusses the developmental arc toward interdependence. They probe neoliberal assumptions, collective destabilization, humility, non-linear growth, and learning from indigenous perspectives.

Jordan Gruber, writer and coach who blends psychology, spirituality, and microdosing, chats about the “symphony of selves.” He describes how inner parts form and function. He questions a single controlling self and offers practical ways to recognize, dialogue with, and skillfully shift between parts. He also explains how microdosing can boost flexibility and awareness for working with selves.

Richard David Hames, thought leader and author on systems change and AI ethics, shares a non-linear life and wide-ranging projects. He explores failing sensemaking, collapse as opportunity for renewal, leadership as an emergent collective, the role of inner work and story in systemic change, reintegrating the feminine and indigenous wisdom, and practical perspectives on AI and future sentience.