Coaches Rising

Charlie Awbery, a developmental coach and contemplative teacher who blends adult development theory with Vajrayana meditation, guides leaders and AI researchers. They discuss moving from cerebral to somatic intelligence. They explore Vajrayana’s worldly orientation, how embodied presence loosens fixed goals, sensing patterns in the subtle body, and coaching that cultivates shared presence and mutual transformation.

Bob Anderson, creator of the Leadership Circle Profile and co-author of Mastering Leadership, shares practices in listening, intuition, shadow work, and regenerative leadership. He discusses trusting inner guidance, training perception through embodied practices, the interplay of fear and calling, and how presence creates a decisive thin space for wise action.

In this weeks’ conversation with Adam Klein we explore coaching through the lens of becoming, inviting a wider field of creative possibility where presence, spaciousness, and freedom allow a client’s essence and purpose to emerge. We reflect on key coaching moves that cultivate this unfolding, from emptying our own vessel as practitioners to inviting clients into creative participation and action that serves both their lives and the wider world.For more resources, visit the podcast episode page at https://www.coachesrising.com/podcast/the-becoming-paradigm-with-adam-kleinDive deeper into transformational coaching with us…Start each week with inspiration, insights, and tools for transformational coaching from our founder, Joel Monk. Join the global community of human-centered coaches responding to the call of these times. Subscribe for free here. 

Staci Haines, a somatics pioneer connecting trauma healing, leadership, and social justice. She explores politicized somatics and how social conditions shape bodies and institutions. She contrasts power-over with power-with and outlines practices to cultivate presence, hold complexity, and move inner work into sustained civic action. The conversation invites committing regular time to collective change and embodying a shared vision.

Robert Diggins, an executive coach and team development consultant focusing on relational approaches, discusses making teams more effective by strengthening the web of interpersonal ties. He talks about slowing meetings, creating honest check-ins, working with core emotions like joy and grief, and building conditions for vulnerability, trust and collective intelligence.

Tara Springett, a Buddhist and Qigong teacher and therapist who supports spiritual crises, outlines a nine-stage map of consciousness. She discusses ethical manifesting, practices to expand awareness, signs and care for Kundalini-like awakenings, and how devotional practices and everyday life can accelerate growth. Short, practical tools for navigating intense spiritual shifts are highlighted.

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.