Coaching is a partnership with a purpose — and the purpose of our program is to support you make the most of your gifts, be a more self-aware and compassionate leader, spark your strategic chops, beat burnout and, ultimately, make transformative leaps in your capacity to lead your organization or community toward a more just world.
Spring’s coaches have worked with more than 200 people in 30 countries (speaking six languages) to help social justice leaders reach their goals. Read what our coaching clients say in these stories of transformation.
With roots in human rights movements or experience working with changemakers across the Global South and the Global North, we are savvy enough to support individuals and groups on the frontlines who face complex organizational challenges, multilayered crises and a rapidly shifting global landscape in the midst of a global pandemic.
We have a particular specialty in coaching co-executive directors, supporting teams through leadership transitions, and nurturing feminist leadership. People also seek us out for support in work-life balance, self-confidence, managing conflict, keeping their staff or team engaged, delegating effectively, and cultivating strong relationships. Spring’s coaches can support you to develop new capacities in these areas and understand your team’s needs, enabling them to fulfill their vision and spark organizational culture change.
Reach out to us to get started today or sign up for the Leap of Leadership, our free monthly online meet-up to support social and climate justice leaders.
What makes us different?
This isn’t like other types of coaching. Our goal isn’t only to help you live a more fulfilling life but to help you build a better world, too. Many types of coaching tend to focus on either your career or personal life. For those among us driven by values or fighting for our freedoms, these can be artificial distinctions that limit our potential and stymie our collective ability for holistic problem-solving.
Spring relies on an “integral” (whole) approach that includes everything that makes us human. Certified in the Integral Coaching® method and drawing on the ideas of a diverse array of thinkers, our coaches will work with you to identify long-standing patterns, understand and leverage your strengths and get outside your comfort zone to work on your “developmental edges”. We combine “past-based” ways of knowing and “future-based” desired outcomes that will propel you to move in new directions in record time. (Scroll down for testimonials from past clients)
Our coaches have roots in Latin America, the Caribbean, North America, Europe, Africa and Asia, which makes us uniquely positioned to offer culturally relevant coaching support. Coaching is offered in English, Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch, German, Indonesian.
How to get started?
If you’ve never considered coaching before, take our quiz to better understand if it’s right for you.
Check out the different types of coaching services we provide (below). When you're ready to talk to a coach, fill out the contact form below. Our Coaching Lead, Márcia Kodama, will get in touch and guide you through our intake process.
Once you’re matched with a coach, together you’ll follow a creative and thought-provoking process that will enable you to step into your potential, meet your goals and enrich your bonds with the people you work or organize alongside. You’ll learn more about the roles that personal values, relationships, action and systems play in your abilities to reach your goals. Through discussions of the somatic, moral, spiritual (whatever that means to you), cognitive, emotional and interpersonal, you’ll learn to see things in new ways, realize the things you care deeply about and flex new muscles.
If you want to be part of the Spring coaching community, join the Leap of Leadership Meetup, free monthly online meetups featuring expert and peer-level discussions with social and climate justice from around the world.