Growth Edge Coaching
A three part course. Delve into the richness of adult development, expanding your ability to support others to navigate life’s complexities. Equip yourself with the insights and skills needed to lead, coach, and engage with other humans with depth, fostering meaningful growth and transformation in both your personal and professional life.
Conversations at the Edge: 14 hours over 10 weeks
Dancing at the Edge: 12 hours over 5 weeks
Mapping the Edge: 18 hours over 14 weeks
Life brings us all the challenges we need to intentionally evolve. The difficulty is taking the struggles that come from the rising complexity, uncertainty, and conflict and using them for good, rather than being fatigued or paralyzed. Learning how to metabolize these challenges into growth is what will ultimately enable you to transform yourself and others around you.
Growth Edge Coaching is for coaches, leaders, and other humans who are interested in leadership development and transformational change. For more than fifteen years, we have used our deep expertise and experience to have deeper conversations, to ask better questions, and to support real and lasting change. Come learn with us!
Jennifer Garvey Berger’s much-acclaimed book Changing on the Job: Developing Leaders for a Complex World, based on adult development theory (also known as vertical development), describes a way of coaching developmentally that stretches our way of meaning making and grows our capacity for perspective and complexity.
We call this Growth Edge Coaching!
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Growth Edge Coaching
Growth Edge Coaching consists of three courses that build upon each other
You can take our introductory class to transform your listening and questioning capacities or take all three courses, which will enable you to confidently coach developmentally, as well as become accredited as a Growth Edge Coach.
Intro course: Conversations at the Edge
Conversations at the Edge dives into conversations that open up entirely new realms of possibilities. This gateway course will take your listening and questioning skills to a new level, and deepen your understanding of adult development (aka vertical development).
An advanced course: Dancing at the Edge
Dancing at the Edge explores how you can make significant impacts with brief, targeted interventions. This advanced course teaches you to identify and navigate the patterns that influence how adults grow and change, enabling dynamic shifts in your coaching sessions.
An advanced course: Mapping the Edge
Mapping the Edge enables you to help your clients make sense of their meaning-making in a structured and detailed way, effectively guiding them through their personal growth paths.
The International Coaching Federation (ICF) accredits the programs with continuing coaching education units (CCE’s) follows:
- Conversations at the Edge: Core Competencies 21 units, Resource Development 19 units
- Dancing the the Edge: Core Competencies 10 units, Resource Development 2 units
- Mapping the Edge: Core Competencies 29 units, Resource Development 7 units
Conversations at the Edge
Introductory Growth Edge Coaching course
You explore how you and others make meaning from their experiences. When we listen to others’ sense-making, we do so through our own sense-making. Growth Edge Coaching raises a plethora of new questions, beyond consisting of a set of ideas and tools.
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.
We slow down the process of conversations—reading interviews, engaging in deep conversations together, and feeling what it’s like to be on our 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 the first three chapters of Jennifer Garvey Berger’s book, Changing on the Job: Developing leaders for a complex world. That introduces sense-making and outlines how that can help enhance executive coaching.
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 (IFC) 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.
Dancing at the Edge
An advanced Growth Edge Coaching course
You start integrating Growth Edge Coaching into your existing coaching practices. You practice stepping out of traditional coaching and helping clients explore their sense-making, asking different questions, taking multiple perspectives, and noticing patterns.
In this course, we practice weaving developmental approaches throughout your conversations and coaching sessions, to discover the sometimes invisible patterns inside the way people experience particular dilemmas.
Once we see the patterns, we can help expand the solution space for our clients, helping them discover new possibilities in themselves and the situations they face. As with all of our courses, we practice as we learn, exploring our own sense-making as we understand the sense-making of others. This module also includes discussion and practice of specific coaching approaches that might be helpful with clients who seem to be in particular developmental transitions.
Completing the Conversation at the Edge course is a prerequisite for participating in the Dancing at the Edge course. The International Coach Federation (IFC) accredits this course with continuing coaching education units (CCE), Core Competencies 10, Resource Development 2.
Dancing at the Edge was previously called Psychologically Spacious Coaching
Mapping the Edge
An advanced Growth Edge Coaching course
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.
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FAQs
Do I have to take the three courses in the order they’re displayed in on the website?
Our intro course, Conversations at the Edge, is the prerequisite for our two advanced courses, and must be taken first. Afterwards, you are free to take the two advanced courses in any order you desire. That being said, we do consider Mapping at the Edge to be the most “challenging” of the three courses in terms of both content and time commitment.
I have gone through formal coaching training at a different program already. Do I still need to start with the intro course, Conversations at the Edge?
Yes, you still need to take Conversations at the Edge despite any previous trainings you have done. We have experimented with this in the past, and found that nothing else can replicate the learning from this course, especially when it comes to the small-group work that is central to the Growth Edge Coaching experience.
How is this different to Bob Kegan’s Subject Object Interview (SOI)?
The Growth Edge Coaching approach is built on the foundation of Robert Kegan’s Subject-Object Interview (SOI) alongside Jane Loevinger’s theory of ego development, as interpreted by Bill Torbert and Suzann Cook-Greuter. Unlike the SOI, which primarily served as a research method, the Growth Edge process emphasizes practical application, making it more useful for creating the possibilities for development. For deeper insights into the distinctions between the two see, “Changing on the Job: Developing leaders for complex times” by Jennifer Garvey Berger (Chapter 3).
I want to take a course but I can’t afford it. Do you offer discounts?
We have made significant efforts to make sure our courses are priced fairly compared to other offerings in this market, while maintaining the value that these courses offer, both to our faculty and to you as a participant. That being said, we do not want price to be a barrier in attending, and work to be as inclusive as possible when it comes to pricing. Please reach out directly if the cost is prohibitive for you.
Do I have to read Changing on the Job before taking the courses?
Chapters 1-3 of Changing on the Job are currently required pre-reading for Conversations at the Edge.
What happens if I miss a live session in the course I’m attending?
In many cases, it is possible to watch the session recording and complete a session learnings form to make up for the missed live session. Homework will always need to be completed in-between sessions. Attendance at live sessions is compulsory for Dancing at the Edge – please do not register if you think you will miss a session.
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This course is available on these dates. Select an item to see individual session dates and times:
Conversations at the Edge
Virtual course delivered by Zoom
Virtual course delivered by Zoom
Sep 17th – Nov 26th, 2024 / 11:00 – 1:00pm / New York (EDT)
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Sessions
Session 1 September 17th, 2024 11:00am 2 hours Session 2 October 1st, 2024 11:00am 2 hours Q&A 1 October 14th, 2024 11:00am 1 hour Session 3 October 15th, 2024 11:00am 2 hours Session 4 October 29th, 2024 11:00am 2 hours Session 5 November 12th, 2024 11:00am 2 hours Q&A 2 November 25th, 2024 11:00am 1 hour Session 6 November 26th, 2024 11:00am 2 hours -
Format
The course consists of six 2-hour, live virtual sessions and two live virtual 1-hour Q&A sessions. Between sessions, there is an hour or so of solo work plus about an hour meeting with an assigned trio (which is supported by a Peer Support Coach).
The first three chapters of Jennifer Garvey Berger’s book Changing on the Job: Developing Leaders for a Complex World form a foundation and are mandatory pre-reading.
Meeting with your assigned trio buddies between sessions is essential, and you need to commit to this part of the workshop for your own learning and to support your group. There will also be a small amount of solo work between sessions that will help you get the most out of the live virtual sessions.
If you cannot attend a live session you may listen to the recording of the live session, complete the group work, then complete a form to demonstrate learning. This is essential if you want to complete the workshop to receive ICF credits or attend advanced Growth Edge Coaching workshops.
The facilitated sessions use the ZOOM platform, which participants can download and use free of charge.
You must complete the course to receive ICF credits.
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Dancing at the Edge
Virtual course delivered by Zoom
Virtual course delivered by Zoom
Oct 16th – Nov 20th, 2024 / 1:00 – 3:00pm / Sydney (AEDT)
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Sessions
Session 1 October 16th, 2024 1:00pm 2 hours Session 2 October 23rd, 2024 1:00pm 2 hours Session 3 October 30th, 2024 1:00pm 2 hours Session 4 November 6th, 2024 1:00pm 2 hours Session 5 November 13th, 2024 1:00pm 2 hours Session 6 November 20th, 2024 1:00pm 2 hours -
Format
Six weekly 2-hour sessions via Zoom. Attendance at live sessions is mandatory for course completion and ICF credits.
Notes
Because we believe diversity is crucial to our personal, professional, and collective development, we intentionally invite participants from various backgrounds and from different sectors and geographies. The fee might be overwhelming for some, and we can consider offering some individuals interested a discount. Contact Patrice@Cultivatingleadership.com to discuss a reduced fee.
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Dancing at the Edge
Virtual course delivered by Zoom
Virtual course delivered by Zoom
Feb 5th – Mar 12th, 2025 / 11:00 – 1:00pm / New York (EST)
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Sessions
Session 1 February 5th, 2025 11:00am 2 hours Session 2 February 12th, 2025 11:00am 2 hours Session 3 February 19th, 2025 11:00am 2 hours Session 4 February 26th, 2025 11:00am 2 hours Session 5 March 5th, 2025 11:00am 2 hours Session 6 March 12th, 2025 11:00am 2 hours -
Format
Six weekly 2-hour sessions via Zoom. Attendance at live sessions is mandatory for course completion and ICF credits.
Notes
Because we believe diversity is crucial to our personal, professional, and collective development, we intentionally invite participants from various backgrounds and from different sectors and geographies. The fee might be overwhelming for some, and we can consider offering some individuals interested a discount. Contact Patrice@Cultivatingleadership.com to discuss a reduced fee.
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Mapping the Edge
Virtual course delivered by Zoom
Virtual course delivered by Zoom
Apr 22nd – Jul 29th, 2025 / 7:00 – 9:00am / Sydney (AEST)
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Sessions
Session 1 April 22nd, 2025 7:00am 2 hours Session 2 May 6th, 2025 7:00am 2 hours Session 3 May 20th, 2025 7:00am 2 hours Session 4 June 3rd, 2025 7:00am 2 hours Session 5 June 10th, 2025 7:00am 2 hours Q&A 1 June 17th, 2025 7:00am 1 hour Session 6 June 24th, 2025 7:00am 2 hours Q&A 2 July 1st, 2025 7:00am 1 hour Session 7 July 15th, 2025 7:00am 2 hours Session 8 July 29th, 2025 7:00am 2 hours -
Format
Eight 2-hour sessions via Zoom, plus two 1-hour Q&A sessions, plus between session work in trios. Trio work is essential to complete the course. Completion of the workshop is mandatory for course completion and ICF credits.
Notes
Because we believe diversity is crucial to our personal, professional, and collective development, we intentionally invite participants from various backgrounds and from different sectors and geographies. The fee might be overwhelming for some, and we can consider offering some individuals interested a discount. Contact Marcus Howard at gecoaching@cultivatingleadership.com to discuss a reduced fee.
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Cancellation & Terms
Payment is fully refundable up to 28 days before the start of the event, less a 13% processing fee; it is not refundable thereafter. If the event is under-enrolled, we reserve the right to cancel 28 days prior to the event start date, and refund your registration fee in full.