Jeremy Blanchard Coaching

Dispatches on social change + personal transformation

Hi friends!

🌱 Latest from Jeremy

​I'm starting a podcast on personal + systemic transformation! (Coming January 2024!)

I'm SO excited to share this update with y'all! I'm starting a podcast!! 🎉🎉🎉

It's for coaches and leaders about the intersection of coaching and social justice.

It's the podcast I wish I had when I started getting curious about coaching and personal transformation work over a decade ago.

When I went to social justice spaces, I didn't see much conversation about the inner work of change.

When I went to coaching and personal transformation spaces, everything was discussed as an "individual issue," and I heard very little discussion about how systems of oppression were impacting our personal lives.

I've spent the last decade finding the teachers, schools, books, and thought leaders who are bringing these two worlds together. And I'm bringing them together on this podcast to share their wisdom and gather their resources!

This podcast will be a space to explore:

1. Brining coaching to movements: How can coaching skills and practices support changemakers and social movements working for systemic change?
2. Bringing collective liberation into our coaching methods: What does it look like to place our commitment to the well-being of the whole at the center of a coaching conversation/relationship? How can social, political, and ecological realities inform the foundation of HOW we coach? (Rather than being de-politicized and individualistic.)

✅ What topics should explore on the podcast?

After recording the first three episodes of the podcast, I realized that I really want input from you all about the topics I should explore:

• If you're a coach, what questions do you have about how to use your coaching to serve social justice leaders?
• If you're a leader, what topics do you want to explore about bringing personal transformation into your work for change?

I'd love your help! The survey below only has 3 questions. Thanks!

☀️ Quotes & Inspiration

I learned about this insightful paper about "post-oppositionality" friend a coaching colleague. It's fairly academic, but the underlying message speaks deeply to the new ways of being that I see emerging.

I love the space this creates for nuance and complexity and compassion and generosity. I long to see more of this in progressive movement spaces! (And I see it happening more and more every day!)

📕 Interesting & fun shares

All of my shares this time are podcasts — I've been listening to a lot more! Here are a few of my favorites! Hope you can enjoy them over the holiday season.

• 🔈 Coaching from deep service in times of collapse - Margaret Wheatley - Here's my favorite quote from this episode (that's serving as a guiding light for my podcast): "We need coaches and leaders who can help us bring forth the best qualities of humanity amidst collapse and destruction."
• 🔈 The Urgent Need for Compassion - ​Alok Vaid Menon - This episode brought me to tears many times around trans rights, and more broadly, the invitation to fight for our own liberation (because we are all bound up together!)
• 🔈 Politicized Somatics - Staci Haines - I have been diving deep into the lineage of politicized somatics and wanted to share this as a great introduction to this body of work.
• 🔈 Widening Circles - Joanna Macy - I can never get enough of Joanna's spiritual approach to the climate crisis.
• 🔈 What If We Get This Right? - Ayana Elizabeth Johnson - On Being - This incredible episode is about envisioning the world we want to see and committing ourselves to it.
• 🔈 Knowing your neighbors and building a post-capitalist society - Mia Birdsong - I was really moved by the stories Mia shares about how essential her connections with her neighbors are.

And some fun shares:

• 🎶 Wildchoir just dropped their EP - It's 🔥 y'all. Music for spiritual activism!
• 😭 Beautiful rendition of "Fast Car" made by a one-day-only choir​
• 🎵 Sam Smith Tiny Desk Concert - I basically spent all of October listening to this on repeat.
• 😂 Me trying to pronounce names in fantasy books​

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🪴 Invitations & programs (mine and others)

• ​Radical Genealogy (from White Awake) - Starts Jan 7 - I've mentioned White Awake in my previous newsletters. This course is for folks with European roots (white or multiracial) who want to connect "their individual family histories to the broader histories of racism, colonialism, capitalism, traditional culture, and political resistance that shaped our ancestor's lives."

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Big hugs,
​Jeremy​

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