FREE WEBINAR
WHAT DOES AWAKENING HAVE TO DO WITH COACHING?
What we’re waking people up to, and the powerful shifts, new capacities, and sustained outcomes it creates in our work with others.
For practitioners, coaches, and guides
Much of coaching and personal development is built around helping people feel better, solve problems, or reach a desired outcome.
We believe the work can point somewhere deeper, helping people access greater capacity, inner freedom, and new possibilities in how they live.
DATE: Tuesday, August 18, 2026
TIME: 11:30am-1pm PT | 2:30pm-4pm ET | 7:30pm-9pm GMT
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with
Aila Coats and Barb Patterson
Creators of the Practitioner’s Academy
SAVE YOUR SPOT NOW
What are the internal shifts that actually help people access new capacities, possibilities, and sustained transformation?
What helps someone move into new expressions, create new outcomes, and participate more fully in life with greater inner freedom, clarity, and less force or pressure?
What can people wake up to that allows them to meet fear, uncertainty, doubt, and the unknown without automatically contracting, protecting, or turning away?
What we’ve experienced both personally and professionally is that these capacities become available the moment we wake up to the knowing that beneath our thoughts, our feelings, our conditioning, and our protective mechanisms, there’s a deeper nature.
As we have been creating The Practitioner’s Academy, we have found ourselves returning to this central question..
What do we mean by awakening, and what does it have to do with coaching?
How does awakening change the way we understand transformation and work with people?
And how can coaching become a place where people wake up to more of who they are, what they can hold, and how they want to live?
Awakening is not about transcending life or reaching some permanent state.
It’s recognizing that our thoughts, feelings, conditioning, past, or personality are not the whole of who we are. That there’s more available to us than what our minds or our past would have us believe.
And in many ways, the most revolutionary awakening happens when people realize this deeper nature is designed to hold the full range of being human.
We don’t have to escape, fix, protect, manage, interpret, or resolve our humanness.
Fear may still arise. Doubt, sadness, uncertainty, vulnerability, and protection may still move through us. Awakening gives us a different relationship with those experiences. They no longer have to determine the full range of what we can see, choose, create, or become.
When we don’t know this, it makes sense to live from a narrower, more reactive stance to life.
Waking up to more of who we are gives us real choice in the moment, and allows us to access deeper wisdom, clarity, and aligned action.
During the Webinar, We Will Explore…
What awakening means in practical, grounded terms and why it changes the way we understand transformation and work with people.
The difference between helping someone feel better or manage themselves, and helping them build real capacity to meet life, keep moving, and take aligned action.
How coaching can help people wake up from conditioned identities, protective responses, and inherited limitations without making any part of their experience wrong.
Why modalities can be valuable, but insufficient on their own. There is no single modality for being human, or one "way" of pointing that works all the time when you're working with others.
There is no single modality for being human and no one way of working that will meet every person or every moment.
Methods, tools, and frameworks offer valuable structure, language, and skill. The developmental edge is learning how to use them without losing contact with the actual person and the living moment in front of us.
This is where practitioner development becomes rich, expansive, and deeply alive.
If you already sense that something more is being asked of you than applying the right process, offering the right insight, or following a prescribed methodology, this conversation is for you.
ABOUT US
Aila Coats
A transformative coach, author of Coaching Teens Well, and creator of Coaching Well Mastermind, Aila has helped hundreds of coaches, parents, and leaders find their voice, serve deeply, and build thriving practices rooted in genuine connection. She’s known for her heart, wisdom, attunement, and ability to translate insight into tangible creation – helping practitioners embody what they teach in their own lives and work.
Barbara Patterson
Founder of Innerverse Global, Barb works at the intersection of human potential, transformation, and business. Her work integrates inner shifts with real-world impact, helping entrepreneurs, leaders, and practitioners bring higher-quality thinking and new potentials into their work and everyday lives. Known for her clarity, humor, and deep presence, she invites people into a direct relationship with their own knowing — and to live what they see.
This webinar is part of an ongoing conversation about what it really means to build a practice and a life that is aligned, alive, and prosperous, and it includes content that will be included in the upcoming Practitioner’s Academy. If you’d like to learn more about the Academy CLICK HERE
Join us live on August 18th!
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