The Bright Morning Podcast with Elena Aguilar

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Coaching Sadness: Episode 128 Jun 06, 2022

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There is loss inherent in change regardless of the size or the amount of that change. If this school year was a magical one, or your most challenging yet, the end of the year means loss in some form. The question for us to consider is, how can we honor and learn from that loss?

In this second episode of a three-part series on transformational end-of-year conversations, Elena dives into how you can support your coaching clients (or any conversation partner) in exploring their sadness (insecurity, hopelessness, loneliness, etc.).

Mentioned in this episode:

The Core Emotions (coaching tool)

Opportunities for continued learning:

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Coaching Emotions: Anger: Episode 127 May 30, 2022

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Anger is a part of all of our lives. It has the potential to be a catalyst for change, an insight into our needs, and a source of wisdom. Yet too often it’s thought of as a “bad” emotion and avoided at all costs.

In this first episode of a three-part series on transformational end-of-year conversations, Elena dives into how you can support your coaching clients (or any conversation partner) in processing their anger (disappointment, resentment, frustration, etc.).

You’re 20 minutes away from better coaching conversations.

Mentioned in this episode:

Art of Coaching 101 workshop (retired July 2024 and replaced by The Art of Transformational Coaching workshop)
The Art of Coaching Workbook (retired July 2024 with the release of Arise: The Art of Transformational Coaching)
The Art of Coaching Emotions workshop
Onward: Cultivating Emotional Resilience in Educators
The Onward Workbook
Onward Book Club

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10 Strategies to Shift a Mood: Episode 126 May 23, 2022

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Today’s episode offers ten specific strategies you can use when you need to be “on” but are currently in a mood. If you’ve experienced this in the past, you know just how challenging it can be…and thanks to these suggestions for Elena, next time you’ll be prepared with the strategies you need.

These strategies and much more can also be found in The PD Book, which is releasing this week!!!

Mentioned in this episode:

The PD Book
Pre-Order Special Offer: including free mini-workshops with Elena and Lori! Learn more at brightmorningteam.com/the-pd-book-pre-order-bonus/

Opportunities for continued learning:

Read The PD Book (Elena’s newest book, co-written with Lori Cohen)
Attend Artful Design and Facilitation
Attend Artful Design and Facilitation Masterclass (retired workshop)

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It’s All In the Details: Episode 125 May 16, 2022

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Details can make or break a learning experience, yet are too often overlooked or deprioritized as “logistics”. It’s time for that to change.

In this episode, Elena shares why attending to the details is one of the 7 habits that transforms professional development, provides a couple of strategies you can start using right away to better attend to the details, and offers reflection questions to help you in your learning about designing and facilitating PD.

Mentioned in this episode:

The PD Book
Pre-Order Special Offer: including free mini-workshops with Elena and Lori! Learn more at brightmorningteam.com/the-pd-book-pre-order-bonus/
Attend a Bright Morning workshop to experience transformational PD! Learn more at https://brightmorningteam.com/upcoming-events/

Opportunities for continued learning:

Read The PD Book (Elena’s newest book, co-written with Lori Cohen)
Attend Artful Design and Facilitation
Attend Artful Design and Facilitation Masterclass (retired workshop)

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When Things Don’t Go According to Plan: Episode 124 May 09, 2022

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There’s 20 minutes left in your session and you have an hour's worth of content, what do you do?

Adaptive facilitation is the key to staying calm and skillfully adjusting course when things don’t go according to plan. On today’s episode, Elena brings you along on her adaptive facilitation journey and provides two sets of reflection questions to support you on your own. If you lead teams, groups or meetings, this is an episode you won’t want to miss.

Mentioned in this episode:

The PD Book
Free workshop with Elena on Facilitation Adaptively if you pre-order The PD Book. Learn more at brightmorningteam.com/the-pd-book-pre-order-bonus/
The Art of Coaching Workbook (retired July 2024 with the release of Arise: The Art of Transformational Coaching)
Two sets of reflection questions:
- What comes up for you when things don’t go according to plan? [Tip: consider multiple examples]
  - What feelings and thoughts come up?
  - What’s the story that you tell? About yourself? About others in the room?
- When you facilitate a meeting or PD session, how do you gather information in the moment about how the folks are doing that you are there to serve?
  - What you see? What you hear? What you feel? What you intuit?

Opportunities for continued learning:

Read The PD Book (Elena’s newest book, co-written with Lori Cohen)
Attend Artful Design and Facilitation
Attend Artful Design and Facilitation Masterclass (retired workshop)

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Powerful Facilitation Starts and Ends With You: Episode 123 May 02, 2022

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If you want to lead transformative learning experiences, you must tend to your own transformation. In this episode, Elena dives into one of the 7 habits that transform professional development: knowing yourself as a facilitator.

Mentioned in this episode:

The PD Book
Pre-Order Special Offer: including free mini-workshops with Elena and Lori! Learn more at brightmorningteam.com/the-pd-book-pre-order-bonus/
The Art of Coaching Workbook (retired July 2024 with the release of Arise: The Art of Transformational Coaching)
Two sets of reflection questions:
- What gets under your skin? What are your triggers?
  - What do those triggers have to teach you?
  - How can you attend to your sore spots?
- Who do you want to be as a facilitator?
  - Why do you want to facilitate it?
  - If you were to watch a video of yourself facilitating, what do you hope you’d see?
  - What do you hope that people who attend the sessions that you facilitate will say about you years later?
  - How do you want to feel in the moment when you're facilitating?

Opportunities for continued learning:

Read The PD Book (Elena’s newest book, co-written with Lori Cohen)
Attend Artful Design and Facilitation
Attend Artful Design and Facilitation Masterclass (retired workshop)

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The PD Book Sneak Peek: Episode 122 Apr 25, 2022

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In less than a month The PD Book will be out in the world! This is the book you need if you lead teams, groups and/or professional development of any kind. Today Elena is giving us all a treat by reading from the introduction. Listen in to learn all about what's inside The PD Book, and then go pre-order your copy!

Mentioned in this episode:

The PD Book
Pre-Order Special Offer: including free mini-workshops with Elena and Lori! Learn more at brightmorningteam.com/the-pd-book-pre-order-bonus/

Opportunities for continued learning:

Read The PD Book (Elena’s newest book, co-written with Lori Cohen)
Attend Artful Design and Facilitation
Attend Artful Design and Facilitation Masterclass (retired workshop)

Visit https://brightmorningteam.com/podcasts/ for links to everything we mention on the show.

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What to Say: Listener Questions- Asked & Answered: Episode 121 Apr 18, 2022

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How do you respond when young students say something racist?
What do you do when you are the one who has said something racist?
How do you address an entire community pushing against equity work?

Today we’re wrapping up our special What to Say When You Hear Something Racist series with a listener questions episode. Listen in to hear our answers to these questions and several more.

Mentioned in this episode:

The Art of Coaching (retired July 2024 with the release of Arise: The Art of Transformational Coaching)
Onward: Cultivating Emotional Resilience in Educators (book by Elena)
Marshall Rosenberg and non-violent communication
The Person You Mean to Be, Dolly Chugh
The PD Book: 7 Habits that Transform Professional Development (forthcoming book by Elena and Lori Cohen)

Opportunities for continued learning:

Read Coaching for Equity
Attend Coaching for Equity or Coaching for Equity Masterclass (retired workshop)

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REPEAT: You Want to Coach for Equity? Start Here Apr 11, 2022

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We’re busy working to put together our What to Say When You Hear Something Racist Listener Questions episode, so today we’re replaying one of our favorite shows from August 2021, Episode 85: You Want to Coach for Equity? Start Here. This episode will help you tie together the content from What to Say When to your coaching practice. It’s intricately connected.

Mentioned in this episode:

Friends of the Show
Mind the Gap (handout)
3 Bs: Behaviors, Beliefs and Ways of Being

Opportunities for continued learning:

Coaching for Equity (workshop)
Coaching for Equity Masterclass (retired workshop)
Coaching for Equity(book)

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What to Say: An Invitation for You - Get Your Questions Answered Apr 04, 2022

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The last episode of our limited series, What to Say When You Hear Something Racist, wrapped up last week and today Elena is back with an invitation for listeners: get all of your What to Say When… questions answered!

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