Offerings in 2024: Coaching & Writing
Looking for new partnerships to support social change and inner-work efforts.
You are reading ‘Like person, like coach’: explorations at the intersection of personal narrative and coaching practice:
Hello,
As we truly kick-off the New Year in February, I’m sharing an update on the type of work I’ll be available for this year.
I am starting the year, like many of us, with a feeling of uncertainty after a globally tumultuous 2023. Perhaps precisely because of this, I’m also starting it with a renewed commitment to growing even more deeply into relationship to myself, the people I work with and the work of change that is ours to hold right now. I am led in this by many ancestors who have paved the way. Right now Octavia Butler’s words resonate most strongly with how I want to approach change-work this year:
‘Any Change may bear seeds of benefit.
Seek them out.
Any Change may bear seeds of harm.
Beware.’
~ Offerings in 2024: Coaching and Writing ~
1-2-1 Social Impact Coaching (Individual or Organisation)
As I’m going into my 5th year of coaching, I continue to see coaching as one of many tools to grow collective leadership capabilities. I’m interested in working with any organisation, team or people who are working towards social change and inner-work efforts whether that's through parenthood, leading a social enterprise, community-building or anything in between.
The people who get the most out of working with me are interested in looking not only at the practical tasks of leadership but the ‘stance’ of leadership. What are the qualities, dispositions, practices we need to consistently lean into to support us to make the changes we envision?
'I feel and am behaving very differently after working with Iacob.'
- Laura
How you can work with me/support me: (Website)
1. Sign up for a one-off session or a coaching programme. I practice a relational approach to setting fees - we decide what works for both of us at this point in time;
2. Get in touch to explore a coaching partnership with your team/organisation. I bring experience coaching in hierarchical and non-hierarchical organisations with OrgBuilders and previosuly, in the public sector as a service designer at Snook.
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Coaching Weeknotes: (Link)
For the last 7 months I’ve been writing weekly notes on coaching, change and inner-work. These are 3-5min reads written in a style at the meeting point of philosophy, prayer and poetry.
Here are words of praise for it:
‘Thank you for your beautifully articulated approach to change and your amasing consistency at sending out tendrils of connection and resonance. I feel your authenticity in your writing. Your newslett is one that I have stayed subscribed to as when I do get around to reading it - I always enjoy it- succinct, authentic and thought provoking.’
How you can work with me/support me:
1. If you are a reader, please share the link with one other person you think would enjoy it as much as you do;
2. I'm looking for opportunities to reach wider. If you know of magazines, websites, organisations I can partner with in order to do this connect me with them.
I hope we get to work together this year. What a joy to get the chance of another year; what trepidation, too.
Looking forward to sharing the journey with you.
Thank you,
iacob
If you enjoy reading Like Person, Like Coach recommend it to others. If you resonate with what I write get in touch at iacobrbacian@gmail.com.
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