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Deep Belonging: Coaching Beyond the Self-Improvement Myth

An empowering session for coaching the whole person

This live 60-minute webinar teaches Co-Active coaches and leaders how to bring a radically inclusive approach to their sessions and conversations so that growth is rooted in wholeness and belonging rather than striving.
Date: Wednesday, April 22, 2026
Time: 9:00–10:00 AM PT / 12:00–1:00 PM ET / 6:00–7:00 PM CEST
Duration: 60 minutes
Format: Live online webinar (recording included)
Cost: Free
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Coaching Beyond “Never Enough”

Popular self‑improvement culture focuses on always striving, optimizing, and trying to fix what isn’t working. The goalpost keeps moving in an endless pursuit of more. Better. Different. And beneath it, a subtle kind of aggression. This webinar invites you into a different orientation : one where nothing has to be pushed out in order for change to happen. An approach grounded in the Co‑Active Cornerstone of Focus On the Whole Person, rooted in the belief that people are naturally creative, resourceful, and whole.​

Where coaches can get stuck:

  • Centering only what feels “positive” or “empowering,” while pushing aside the parts of the experience that don’t fit that frame.
  • Treating resistance as something to move past, rather than getting curious about what it’s here to protect.
  • How do I market group programs in a way that is authentic and effective?
  • Wanting to include body, mind, heart, and spirit, but unsure if that truly belongs within coaching.
  • Looking for practices that support sustainable growth rooted in wholeness and belonging, not just more effort, achievement, or performance.

This session offers a grounded way to honor your client as a whole person, deepen your presence, and coach from belonging rather than from “not enough.”

What You’ll Learn in This Webinar

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Co‑Active Coaching Through a Liberatory, Embodied Lens

Expand your understanding of Co‑Active coaching as a liberatory, embodied practice rooted in belonging and wholeness.
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Embodied Awareness

Cultivate embodied awareness by engaging the body as an ecosystem of insight and relationship.
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Listening with the Whole Self

Strengthen your capacity to listen with your whole self—mind, body, intuition, and the relational field—through guided reflection, somatic practice, and dialogue.
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Relationship with the Saboteur

Normalize and reframe internal resistance by learning to be in a relationship with the saboteur rather than at war with it, fostering more compassion, curiosity, and safety in your clients’ inner world.​​

Experiential Practices You Can Use Right Away

Leave with simple experiential practices (reflection prompts, somatic awareness exercises, and reframes ) that you can integrate directly into your sessions to support sustainable growth rooted in wholeness and belonging.

Deepen, Embody, Belong

This webinar gives you a close look at what it takes to coach the whole person from wholeness and belonging. You’ll see how a liberatory, embodied Co‑Active stance can change the texture of your sessions, help you meet resistance with compassion, and invite more sustainable transformation for you and your clients.

Live with Gina Restani, CPCC, PCC

Gina is a leadership coach and Co‑Active Training Institute faculty member who has spent the past decade transforming leaders and teams. She has worked with hundreds of leaders from startups to Fortune 500 companies. Her mission is to cultivate bold, open-hearted leaders who transform organizations, communities, and the world.

Practical Insights + Next Steps

You’ll leave with concrete practices you can bring straight into your coaching sessions, along with clear ideas for deepening your own whole-person practice.​

Recording Included

Can’t attend live? Register anyway to receive the full replay and revisit the content at your own pace.​

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Your Workshop Leader

Gina Restani, PCC, CPCC

Gina is an executive coach and facilitator on a mission to revolutionize how we work and lead. She has coached nearly 100 leaders across 30+ companies—from small nonprofits to Fortune 500 giants like Google, Microsoft, and Salesforce. Her deep organizational insights stem from a decade-long career in tech. For the past five years, she has served on the faculty at Co-Active®, training coaches and leaders in critical skills like listening, leading with curiosity, and asking powerful questions. Through team workshops, facilitated training, and private coaching, she helps leaders reconnect to their purpose and build sustainable practices that move their brains, bodies, and businesses out of survival mode and into thriving.

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 creates transformation specialists who work effectively 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
When you're Co-Active trained, you bring a credibility and depth that organizations recognize and value.
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