Notice Your State, Name Your Stories, Navigate Your Situation

Hosted by Scott Schultz

What story are you telling yourself right now? And is it helping? Through a collaborative peer coaching experience, you'll learn to notice your state, uncover the stories shaping your reactions, and choose your response with greater intention. Working alongside fellow participants, you'll practise simple coaching conversations that build awareness, restore agency, and help you show up more purposefully—in the moments that matter most.
What if curiosity wasn't just something you thought—but something you practised with your whole body? In this energizing Practice Room, you'll experiment with simple body-based habits that help prime curiosity, from breath and posture to movement and visualization. Together, we'll explore how these microhabits can become part of everyday conversations and everyday life. You'll leave with practical ways to build curiosity not just as a mindset, but as a habit.

Embodied Curiosity

Hosted by Sofie Kaegi

Past, Future, Here

Hosted by Jean Trujillo

Who are you becoming? In small groups, you'll explore three simple prompts: How did you get here? Who is your future self? How are you in this moment? As the conversations unfold, you'll practise showing a little more of yourself—and discover how quickly that invites others to do the same. You'll leave having experienced what can happen when curiosity makes room for deeper connection, one story at a time.
Some uncertainty is the kind we choose. Some arrives without asking. This Practice Room explores both. Working together with unexpected materials—and no clear picture of how the pieces fit—you'll experience what it feels like to lead when certainty isn't available. Along the way, you'll notice your own assumptions, reconnect with the strengths that have carried you through uncertainty before, and leave with a clearer understanding of how you meet the unexpected.

Two Kinds of Not Knowing

Hosted by Stacy Olinger

Curiosity Under Pressure

Hosted by Georgia Donaldson

How do you stay curious when the stakes are high and the room pushes back? Whether you're leading a board meeting, navigating organizational change, or trying to build buy-in for a new idea, this interactive Practice Room will help you use curiosity to navigate power dynamics with greater confidence. Through realistic simulations—including a boardroom scenario—you'll practice using questions from The Coaching Habit to surface trade-offs, tame The Advice Monster, and create shared ownership instead of resistance.
Curiosity doesn't begin with asking a better question. It begins by noticing more. Using a carefully chosen photograph and one deceptively simple question—"And what else?"—you'll discover how quickly we jump to interpretation and how much more becomes available when we stay curious a little longer. You'll leave with a simple practice—and a photograph to keep—that reminds you to notice more before responding, whether you're with others or yourself.

Notice More

Hosted by Jill Aronoff

Loosening Your Death Grip

Hosted by Debbie Tyson

How tightly are you holding onto your expertise? If you're a coach, consultant, facilitator, or leader, you know your experience is valuable—but sometimes the harder challenge is holding it lightly enough for others to discover their own best thinking. Through reflection, paired exercises, and conversation, you'll explore what pulls us back into expert mode and practise loosening that death grip. Together, we'll look for a better balance between sharing what we know and staying genuinely curious about what others know too.

Curiosity Marketplace

Hosted by Rhonda St. Croix

What if your question doesn't need a better answer—just a different kind of curiosity? Bring a real question, idea, or challenge that's become stuck, stale, or overly familiar, then step into a temporary marketplace of fresh perspectives. Visit the Returns Desk, borrow new lenses, make unexpected connections, and exchange possibilities instead of advice. You don't have to leave with an answer. But you shouldn't leave carrying exactly the same question you brought in.
We've all been there. A conversation gets tense, curiosity disappears, and suddenly you're rescuing, defending, blaming, or shutting down. In this highly experiential Practice Room, you'll discover how emotional triggers pull us into the Drama Triangle—and how curiosity can help us step back out. Using emotion cards, realistic workplace scenarios, and coaching practice, you'll learn to recognize reactive patterns, ask better questions, and bring more clarity and compassion to your most challenging conversations.

Ditch the Drama

Hosted by Tammy Sheppard & Omeed Rezaian

Story for a Story

Hosted by Sara Luther

What changes when someone offers you their full presence? In this deeply human Practice Room, you'll exchange stories, practise deep listening, and discover what becomes possible when you slow down enough to truly see another person. Participants often discover that the experiences they most long for in their own lives are the very experiences they can offer to others. You may find yourself laughing, shedding a tear, or making an unexpected connection—and leaving with a renewed sense of gratitude, deeper human connection, and perhaps even a new friend.
What really matters to you? Together we'll uncover your core values through a fun, interactive exercise called the Four H's, then explore them through Constellations—a physical way of seeing where your values are already showing up in your life and where they might need a little adjustment. This work is about more than identifying your values. It's about becoming more aware of what leads to a life of greater fulfillment and discovering practical ways to move in that direction.

What Matters Most

Hosted by Robbie Tubajon

Seeing the Good

Hosted by Jill Murphy

Who comes to mind when you think, "I wish they knew how much they matter?" In this creative Practice Room, you'll make a Star Jar for someone you care about, filling it with handwritten reminders of the good you see in them, the qualities that make them who they are, and the things you hope they never forget. As you fold each note into a star, you'll discover that this simple act of noticing can be as meaningful for the giver as it is for the receiver. You'll leave with a heartfelt gift—and perhaps a renewed practice of looking for the good in the people around you.