As coaches and leadership practitioners, we play a key regenerative role in our times of profound transformation.
By expanding our consciousness, we can contribute to the development of more resilient, wise, and compassionate leaders— capable of turning the current personal, social, and planetary crises into unprecedented evolutionary opportunities.
This work starts with us. As we deepen our presence — to ourselves, to others, to the field we evolve within — we become more resourceful and responsive instruments in service of others and the systems we are part of.
And we need each other! The expansion of consciousness and capacities is a relational, ecological process. In good developmental company, in a small group of practitioners committed to supporting the highest possible that you also want to support in yourself, we find inspiration and invitations to grow.
We deepen self-discovery and integration, and we experiment with more of our ways of knowing, being, and acting in the current phase of our evolution.
How do we deepen our presence to our Self, others, and the Field, in our times?
How do we expand our responsiveness and generativity?
Across 5 months, in a dedicated circle of inquiry+practice (max 12 participants), we bring our whole person — mind, heart, body, and spirit — into self-, mutual, and collective inquiry, grounded in developmental and systems-intelligence frameworks.
Each participant is invited to identify one specific personal growth edge they wish to explore with-in the group. Everyone is ultimately co-responsible for the evolution of the group, the themes that we explore, and the experience that we co-create.
Together, we expand our presence to what is, inside and outside ourselves, in each moment.
We deepen the integration of different aspects of ourselves.
We become more spacious and skillful in support of our own and others' transformational unfolding.
And, as we deepen our inquiry+practice in the present moment, we honor and integrate the past,
and we build more beautiful futures.
join us in a journey of profound inquiry+practice and earn 20 ICF CCE credits
(16 Core Competencies + 4 Resource Development).
the program includes 9 online meetings of 2 hours
and 2 hours total of continued inquiry during the inter-sessions.
investment: USD 1,800.
EARLY BIRD! USD 1,300 when you enroll by Sunday September 13th.
the next cohorts start in September and October 2026!
now enrolling cohort meeting on Thursdays at 18:00 CET/12:00 pm ET/9:00 am PT
meeting dates: Sept 24, October 8, October 22, November 5, November 19, December 3, December 17, January 14, and January 28, 2027.
reach out to learn more and apply!
Session 1 — Presence to Self-in-relationship.
Where it starts: staying present to our whole Self as the coaching relationship unfolds — the foundation our expansion of consciousness builds on.
Session 2 — Presence to Self, others, and the shared field.
Widening the lens: attuning not just to our Self and our clients, but to what is between us — the shared field, and its generative potential.
Session 3 — Presence within the larger environment.
Widening again: holding presence and skillful engagement while staying connected to the societal context of the coaching relationship.
Module 2 – Partnering for Integration and Transformation
Session 4 — Evoking developmental awareness.
Learning to surface developmental themes and transitions in ourselves and our clients, through creative and embodied practice.
Session 5 — Evoking developmental awareness (deepening).
Going further into subtler patterns — the individual arcs, edges, and resources beneath the surface.
Session 6 — Facilitating integration.
Building capacity to hold space for the integration and the flourishing of different aspects of Self.
Module 3 – Practicing Regeneration
Session 7 — Weaving ancestral awareness into developmental work.
Working with lineage — how ancestral patterns and resources show up in ourselves and others, and how to support their integration.
Session 8 — Whole-system regeneration.
Developing systems intelligence — including how AI is reshaping the systems we work within — and the ability to read and leverage patterns and resources across systems.
Session 9 — Embodying wholeness.
Bringing it together: coaching from a whole-Self, whole-system view, in service of sustainable regeneration.
Your facilitator: Ilaria Distefano, PhD, PCC
I originally created this program as part of my doctoral dissertation action research in 2020,
and since then, I've been refining it together with the different cohorts I have had the privilege to journey with.
I obtained the first ICF accreditation for this program in 2021, and this is the latest reviewed edition (2026).
I particularly care about exploring embodied and co-creative ways of building capacity to serve in our times of profound transformation.
Also, I love to invite amazing colleagues to join me in co-facilitation, and enrich the experience further for everyone.
If you are a coach or a leadership facilitator supporting others through transitions and transformations, this program can help you to:
expand your capacity for presence—to yourself, your clients, and the shared field—across disruption and profound transformation
deepen your embodied attunement, so you can sense and work with more of what's alive in yourself and your clients.
strengthen your capacity to maintain presence and resilience through personal and systemic change
sharpen your ability to evoke developmental awareness and facilitate developmental integration
develop your capacity and skills to co-create transformative collective spaces based on trust and safety
expand systems-intelligence and the capacity for “organic” transformational coaching, emerging naturally from the relational process within a Whole-Self/Whole-System perspective.
Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world;
indeed, it's the only thing that ever has.
Margaret Mead