Coaching for Social Justice Leaders

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Hi! I’m Anastasia. I support social change leaders, teams, and organizations to transform systems of separation and build a radically just world.

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Why I coach

I am a coach, facilitator, and grassroots organizer.

As social justice leaders, we see and feel the harm caused by our dominant culture of separation: oppression; individualism; a body hierarchy based on race, gender, ability, etc. We are dedicated to transforming it.

One of the most powerful tools we have for healing separation - and cultivating justice - is harnessing our wholeness. 

Through coaching, my clients learn to harness their wholeness, and become even more impactful in their leadership for a just and equitable world. 

I’d be delighted to support you.

Who I work with

My clients meet me after having been involved in work for justice & equity for a number of years. They are hungry to keep growing and deepening their impact individually or as a team.

  • Teams: The teams I coach are committed to environmental, racial, and social justice. They are teams at non-profits, B-Corps, for-profit companies, small businesses, professional associations, and/or inside grassroots movements.

  • Individuals: My individual clients are women, femme, non-binary, trans, and/or queer-identifying social change leaders actively building a world rooted in environmental, racial, and social justice. I’ve worked with campaigners, organizers, teachers, artists, lawyers, architects, small business owners, government employees, people running for office, people working in socially conscious finance, and more. 

  • My clients work with me when: There's some next level impact they want to make. AND/OR They want to keep going in the work they love, but with more play, ease, efficacy, and in support of their body and vision for justice.

    Rather than staying stuck at overwhelm, exhaustion, or frustration with a process, yourself, or your teammates, we address the main challenges head on. We make a plan that’s spacious, you take real concrete steps, and you start to make that new initiative, project, and change a reality. 

My clients describe my coaching style as collaborative, authentic, generative, compassionate, playful, and curious.

I support my clients to:

  • Lead teams and organizations that are spaces of belonging  

  • Practice accountability, and build trust in their relationships and teams     

  • Transform harmful culture and help to heal harm caused 

  • Engage with playfulness and fun  

  • Practice equity and justice in their team culture, processes, relationships, goals, and more.

  • Build resource and resilience to show up when things are messy  

  • Heal internalized systems of separation (ie. patriarchy, white supremacy) and access their own wholeness with greater clarity.

  • Make their next level impact doing the work for justice that they love.

My Coaching Experience

My coaching approach is informed by the following experiences:

  • I am a Senior Consultant and Licensed Practitioner for Justice, Equity, Diversity, Inclusion (J.E.D.I.) at Holistic Underground. We’ll use a lens of transformative justice to actively work through scenarios, topics, and issues in our sessions and beyond.  

  • I am a certified Life and Leadership Coach and Licensed Academy Trainer by the Academy for Coaching Excellence.  We’ll get creative envisioning how your actions and their results can embody a world outside our dominant oppressive structures. 

  • I’ve organized for climate and racial justice for 15+ years. I coach through a lens of people-power & interdependence.

  • I have 10+ years leading strategic planning for organizations, including building empowering effective team culture. 

  • I actively practice dismantling white feminism, and white supremacy culture. We’ll draw from The White Supremacy Culture Characteristics and a large body of work on intersectional feminism and dismantling white feminism. 

  • When we live in a culture of separation. I help you harness your wholeness: your wise, wild, creative, inclusive nature as an individual and/or as a team.

My Standard Coaching Package

Duration: My standard coaching package is 6 months; with a total of 12 sessions.**

Sessions: We’ll meet for 2 sessions per month @ 75mins per session. Includes text and email support between sessions.**

**For team coaching and facilitation, this package structure will be adjusted to meet your goals for coaching. Please schedule a Discovery Session with me, in which we’ll explore what duration, sessions, and budget might be right for your team.

Location: Sessions are held by zoom or phone. (In person available in Seattle, WA)

More about what you can expect:

  • Our first 3 sessions will be used for visioning, clarifying the goals you’d love to accomplish, and starting work toward your first goal.  

  • All 12 sessions in your package will be scheduled before our first session, with the flexibility to move them later. 

  • We will have a halfway check in after 6 sessions to celebrate, check on progress, and make any adjustments to our relationship or approach. 

  • At the end of 6 months we will celebrate, evaluate, clarify your vision for where you’d love to go next, and determine if you’d like to renew!

Rates

I offer coaching on a sliding scale of $500-$1000/month. Below are some tiers to help you see what price might be authentic for you.

  • $1000 per month - Your earned income is ~$100,000+/yr

  • $800 per month - Your earned income is ~ $70,000-$99,999/yr

  • $600 per month - Your earned income is ~$55,000-$69,999/yr

  • $500 per month - Your earned income is up to $55,000 per year.

How do I know what tier is right for me? Check out my coaching rates guide for more detail. Go with what’s authentic for you!

Consider subsidizing part or all of your coaching fee with organization or company funds. 

If $500/month would be a stretch for you, I welcome a conversation to explore if there’s a lower rate that works for us! Sign up for a Discovery Session to explore further. 

If you are a team looking for coaching, facilitation, or consulting, please sign up for a Discovery Session to discuss your team’s goals, and a package structure that meets those needs.