Back to the Beginning
Fear of not being a good enough coach has kept me stuck in a war between “I am new at this” and “I will achieve expertise to prove myself."
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Sara Johnson
- Jul 25
- 5 min
Repeat after me: wherever you go...
Is it feasible that loving ourselves could be some of our most joyful, easeful, and liberating work?
Sara Johnson
- Jun 28
- 5 min
Report from the Change Lab
Lessons and questions from five years of continuous change.
Sara Johnson
- May 31
- 5 min
Taking the Leap
How do we find the courage to leap into something new when we only have an inkling of why we are taking flight?
Sara Johnson
- Apr 26
- 4 min
Rewriting our Stories
There’s no singular narrative that can capture the sheer enormity and complexity of being a person. There is always more to the story.
Sara Johnson
- Mar 23
- 5 min
Risk Blooming
Risk-taking and action often require us to prioritize our own voice, vision and wisdom.
Sara Johnson
- Feb 28
- 4 min
On Being Seen: Confessions of a Middle School Spotlight Operator
How to practice and grow comfort in the areas that scare us.
Sara Johnson
- Jan 17
- 3 min
The Freedom of Both/And
One of the greatest gifts of coaching is how this work can shift thinking from binary "either/or" thinking to "both/and" thinking.
Sara Johnson
- Nov 29, 2022
- 3 min
A Coach for All Seasons
Here’s something I don’t broadcast widely: I am a bit resistant to the title “coach.”
Sara Johnson
- Oct 10, 2022
- 3 min
Experimentation & Play
When faced with making a big change or trying something new, framing the endeavor as an experiment - as practicing - can be liberating.
Sara Johnson
- Jul 26, 2022
- 4 min
The Rituals that Bring us Back
Ritual allows us to look at what is scary or scared, hidden or hiding. Ritual helps us hold every milestone and moment with reverence.
Sara Johnson
- May 24, 2022
- 2 min
Permission to Be
We do coaching work together to acknowledge our complexity, our wholeness, and to make space for what wants to grow.
Sara Johnson
- Apr 19, 2022
- 2 min
Who you calling messy?
Nobody told me to write a tagline for my coaching practice. And yet I wanted some words that would ground humans in who I was as a coach...
Sara Johnson
- Mar 22, 2022
- 3 min
A List for When Everything is Too Much
What if by tending to how we really are, we made space for what could be?
Sara Johnson
- Feb 22, 2022
- 3 min
Coaching Asks the Big Questions
In coaching, a single question, uttered out loud, can lead to powerful places. This is a core part of my job as a coach: to ask what...
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