Values in Fulfillment vs. Values in Overdrive
Learn how to distinguish between a value that is serving growth and the moment that same value begins to restrict flexibility, perspective, or freedom.
Befriend Your Saboteur: Recognizing When Values Become Overdone
Learn how you can recognize when a meaningful value slips into overdrive—and how coaching can bring it back into choice.
This live 60-minute webinar invites Co-Active alumni, current learners, coaching-curious professionals, and prospective Co-Active students to explore a fresh, experiential way of working with Saboteurs. Participants will discover how supportive values can become limiting patterns—and how to meet those patterns with more awareness, compassion, and choice.
Date: Wednesday, July 22, 2026
Time: 9:00–10:00 a.m. PT / 12:00–1:00 p.m. ET / 6:00–7:00 p.m. CET
Duration: 60 minutes
Format: Live online webinar (recording included)
Cost: Free
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When a Value Turns Into Protection
Saboteurs are familiar territory for many coaches, yet the turning point can still be easy to miss: the moment a value that usually supports us starts to tighten, protect, and quietly narrow what feels possible. This session offers a way to recognize that shift more clearly, so the pattern becomes something we can work with, not something we have to battle.
For some, that shift shows up when care becomes over-functioning, responsibility becomes pressure, or excellence becomes relentless self-monitoring. For others, the challenge is less about naming the pattern and more about making it visible in a way that feels tangible, embodied, and useful in real coaching conversations.
What this sessions helps illuminate:
- How a value in fulfillment differs from a value in overdrive.
- How Saboteur patterns show up through language, feelings, and behaviors.
- How an embodied approach can make familiar coaching concepts more tangible and experiential.
- How to begin seeing Saboteurs as allies carrying protection, rather than obstacles to eliminate.
This webinar offers a fresh way to revisit a familiar Co-Active tool and helps participants move from automatic protection toward conscious choice.
What You’ll Learn in This Webinar
Recognizing the Saboteur Threshold
Explore how language, feelings, and behaviors can reveal when a supportive pattern has shifted into overdrive and become a limiting Saboteur.
An Embodied Coaching Approach
Discover how coaching can help clients explore these patterns in ways that feel more immediate, visible, and workable.
From Protection to Choice
See how coaching can support clients in moving from automatic protective responses toward greater awareness, agency, and conscious choice.
See the Pattern. Shift the Relationship.
This session offers a practical look at how Saboteurs form, how they are often linked to overdone values, and how coaches can work with them in a more embodied way. Participants will leave with clearer distinctions, a felt sense of the threshold between support and overdrive, and a stronger understanding of how to guide clients toward greater choice.
Live with Mary Beth Shewan, M.S., MCC, CPCC
Learn from a Master Certified Coach and longtime Co-Active Training Institute faculty member who has been developing coaches and facilitating transformational learning for decades.
A Real-Time Demonstration
Watch a live coaching demonstration using geography to make internal dynamics more concrete, relational, and accessible.
Accessible for New and Experienced Audiences
Whether you are reconnecting with Co-Active tools or encountering this framework in a deeper way for the first time, the session is designed to be welcoming and immediately useful.
Interactive Reflection + Q&A
Stay for the debrief, bring your questions, and reflect on what this work opens up for your own coaching and growth.
Recording Included
If you can’t attend live, you can still register and receive the replay afterward.
Your Workshop Leader
Mary Beth Shewan, M.S., MCC, CPCC
Mary Beth has been a Master Certified Coach through the International Coaching Federation since 2005 and has served on the faculty of The Co-Active Training Institute since 2004. Originally from the United States and now based in the Netherlands, she brings an international perspective to coach development and transformational learning.
With decades of experience developing coaches and facilitating experiential learning, Mary Beth creates environments that invite insight, embodiment, and meaningful change. She integrates the principles of Co-Active Coaching with practical approaches that help people recognize unconscious patterns, reconnect with choice, and live and lead with greater fulfillment.
Why Organizations Seek Out Co-Active Trained Coaches
For 30+ years, CTI has trained 150,000+ coaches across 120+ countries. Organizations recognize Co-Active trained coaches because our methodology develops transformation specialists who work well in any context, from one-on-one coaching to large-scale organizational change.
- 150,000+ trained globally
- ICF accreditation
- Proven methodology backed by neuroscience
- Delivered by master faculty who actively coach
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