Coaching Workshop Activities

The Rocking Chair Exercise is a guided visualization activity that is designed for deep life reflection and thinking about what truly matters to oneself, through future-oriented thinking.
Participants imagine themselves at the age of 90, sitting peacefully on a porch in a rocking chair, reflecting back on a meaningful and fulfilling life.
They are prompted to explore the people, achievements, strengths, and moments that brought them joy and purpose, and to identify what they want their legacy to be.
The exercise then can be taken into diverse directions: What are your life goals/missing? What can you start doing today to make this future a reality? But also what are your values based on the insights from the exercise, or what truly matters to you in life.
This powerful tool focuses on long-term visioning and values-based goal setting, making it ideal for coaching, leadership development, or personal growth workshops.

Guided Journaling is a tool for the bottom of the U-process and builds on a completed co-sensing phase. It cannot stand alone! It allows participants to step into a deeper level of self-reflection and is often followed by a solo experience to expand on the insights that arise.

An Empathy Walk develops your capacity to “hold space” for someone who is very different from you and establish a relationship across a significant boundary. It is adapted from the work of MIT Professor Emeritus Ed Schein, who has shaped the field of organizational culture, learning, and leadership over the past 50 years.

3D Modelling is a physical process. Participants create a sculpture that represents their current situation and the emerging possibilities of their work and life.

The process prompts questions from four vantage points, allowing for 360-degree seeing and sensing of an emerging future. The power of the practice lies in participants relying on their hands, rather than on habitual ways of thinking, to discover new insights.

Case Clinic is a peer coaching process designed to identify innovative solutions and next steps for addressing a pressing and immediate leadership challenge. In a Case Clinic, a case giver presents a case, and peers or team members act as coaches, based on the principles of the U-process and process consultation.