Image: Colorful postcard with thumbnail photos of Daley Laing (White, they/them) and Ingrid Tischer (White, she/her) against a background of green leaves and a FireSeed logo in the bottom right corner. www.fireseedfacilitation.org. Circles float with text: Two crip coaches to facilitate them all. In solidarity and with silliness. A Circle for Coaches Investigating Ableism. Fireseed Facilitation. 2024 dates TBD. Six Online Sessions. Sliding scale available. Feed your coach’s curiosity about welcoming and holding the presence of ableism in your clients sessions’ - and how this deepens your coaching practice. "Daley and Ingrid have given me a life-changing understanding of how able ism intersects with other areas of systemic injustice: race, class, gender, sexual identity, age, etc. but the reasons I work with them over and over it's because they're fun even when the topic at hand or anything but.” Belma González, Nonprofit Coach and Co-Founder, With/In Collaborative. Register at https://www.fireseedfacilitation.org/about-a-circle-for-coaches
We're excited to launch this circle because ableism,
a type of inequity that affects all communities, is
seldom included in a meaningful way in coach training.
A Circle for Coaches
6 sessions, your choice of Circle April-June; July-Sept; Aug-Oct
Facilitated by FireSeed partners Daley Laing and Ingrid Tischer
Price: $1500
Sliding scale ($500 and up) because affordability is an access issue!
online ● six 1.5 hour sessions ● two 30-min private check-ins
This circle is for: Coaches at all levels who want to deepen their work with disabled, aging, neurodiverse, pregnant, chronically ill, addicted, and/or care-giving clients.
This circle will be: More like a playground than a schoolroom; highly participatory; about culture change more than information transfer.
This circle engages ableism’s accomplices: Racism, classism and cis-sexism all too often collaborate with ableism. We are committed to all of them being named and engaged with.
This circle does not require: You to disclose or identify lived experience with disability, etc.
Not feeling confident in your understanding of ableism? Not a problem!
Ableism implicates us all, so all coaches are welcome.
Our goal – there’s that coaching word! – is that Circle members will HELP each other to:
Uplift the anti-ableism expertise of disabled coaches who may be present in the Circle and who are rarely centered or even visible in the coaching world.
Welcome and hold the presence of ableism in a session whether your client brings it in explicitly or you sense it lurking beneath the surface.
Gracefully pivot away from coaching practices and messages that inadvertently amplify the implicitly ableist “do more, go faster, fix it,” model of success.
Create a culture of access in their own coaching practice.
Become co-conspirators in challenging the coaching field to better serve the majority of their clients by leveling up their knowledge of disability to an equity based understanding of systemic ableism.
Circle members will gently investigate their own relationships
to ableism - personally, culturally, and as coaches, bringing
in all aspects of their identity and experience of inequity.
Each session will include a coaching exercise and opportunity for feedback.
Everyone will go deeper at their own pace. You'll have the freedom to be confused, awkward, and messy. And brilliant! There will be grace and space for differences, big and small, from terminology to realizing how our relationships have profoundly shaped our responses to ableism. Laughing will be strongly encouraged because ableism can be absurd.
We aim to keep it informal, playful, and feelings-focused with creative options for describing feelings, thoughts, and experiences.
Your Sunday-best self is definitely invited and your regular-human self is even more welcome. While you won’t receive “official credits” for participating in this circle, we promise we'll give credit where credit is due.
In solidarity and with silliness,
Daley and Ingrid
circles will have 4-6 MEmbers, pluS daley & ingrid.
We’re committed to achieving diverse representation in each circle so that no one feels tokenized.
If it’s taking time to fill a balanced circle, we will push back its dates accordingly.
step 1 is completing this registration-ish form.
you’re always welcome to contact Daley or Ingrid if you want to know more about the circle, its access, or TO just say howdy.
“To be with Daley and Ingrid is to be with two incredible beings hell-bent on doing their part to co-create an environment where you will grow, learn, and be (re)inspired and committed to justice and liberation. I know this because I’ve been honored and privileged to work with, learn from, and play alongside them both! They have lots of training skills, experience, and talent as facilitators, trainers, and coaches, plus abundant lived experience with disability justice and ableism. Starting way back in the 1990s and continuing today, they've given me a life-changing understanding of how ableism intersects with other areas of systemic injustice: race, class, gender, sexual identity, age, etc. But the reason I’ve wanted to work with both of them over and over is because they’re fun even when the topics at hand are anything but. They show up in their partnerships (with each other and with people they work with) with compassion, respect, humor, and playfulness. They truly see joy and laughter as revolutionary acts and a practice of liberation.”
Belma González, Nonprofit Coach & Facilitator, Co-Founder, With/In Collaborative