Growth Edge
Coaching Courses

Conversations at the Edge

You know those conversations that open up entirely new possibilities? Where a question opens up a whole new vista of perspectives? In this course, we offer a new form of listening and questioning that will open up a new kind of curiosity for you as you have conversations with your clients – or your partner, your kids, or others. Learn the difference between the content of someone’s thinking and the structure of someone’s sense-making. 

In our work together, we will slow down the process of conversations—reading interviews, engaging in deep conversations together, and feeling what it’s like to be on our own growing edge. And because sense-making is more than a cognitive experience, we use our whole bodies as we explore, paying attention to our thinking, feelings, and sensations.

The course builds on Jennifer Garvey Berger’s book, Changing on the Job (2nd edition): How Leaders Become Courageous, Wise, and Steady in an Anxious World. We’ll use the book as a starting point and dig deeper together into how to use conversations to understand someone’s growing edge and unlock new possibilities in areas that have previously seemed stuck or intractable.

The course can be taken independently and would serve as a foundation for applying sense-making as well as adult development theory, vertical development, and meaning-making. The International Coach Federation (ICF) accredits this course with continuing coaching education units (CCE) Core Competencies 21, Resource Development 19.

Conversations at the Edge was previously called Conversations at the Growing Edge.

Mapping the Edge

Start conversing with your clients about how they see the world using the Growth Edge Interview technique. Learn how to use this effective process to help people explore the edges of their growth.

Once you begin to explore growing edges, though, you might want to have conversations with your clients about the way they see the world. Knowing how helpful this set of ideas and theories is to your own development, the next thing you’re likely to want to do is share it. This is the course for you!

In this course, we move from having conversations at the edge to Mapping the Edge–with our clients. In this practical and highly-applied course, we practice all of the components of the Growth Edge Coaching process: conducting a full Growth Edge Interview, creating an exploratory narrative to share with your client, and talking with your client about their developmental trajectory.

And because you’ll have a turn being both client and coach in this practice, you’ll get the benefits of experiencing some Growth Edge coaching of your own and understanding the true developmental power of this process.