Coaching work activates and amplifies our abilities to root into ourselves, open to difference and sustain our good work in service of the world. One of our goals is to promote and expand a coaching culture grounded in OIA’s Self-Other-World framework to support our global learners, global leaders and global citizenship practitioners. We are coaching our constituents (global learners, global leaders, global citizens) to take up positions of care and concern for the world in a way that is sustainable and deeply committed to embracing difference. We understand this to mean that we are not just teaching about something; we are working with the people behind the global work.
Coaching Events
AIEA Forum
Coaching + Critical Intercultural Learning (April 8-9, Lehigh University)
Coaching and Critical Intercultural Learning: Towards a New Approach for Global Education takes a deep dive around how coaching can further our commitments to intercultural learning. We will explore how coaching can further students’ development as intercultural learners and global citizens in a world characterized by difference, complexity and fast change.
Coaching for SOWL
Professional Training for Global Educators (May 11-17, Mexico)
Interested in learning how to coach and how to apply coaching modalities and perspectives in your global education work? Coaching for SELF-OTHER-WORLD LEARNING (SOWL, pronounced ”soul”) is a short, immersive learning and training experience designed specifically for global education professionals who work with international students, study abroaders, international interns and partners.
More projects
Other coaching work
Our coaching work includes other current and past projects, as well as a semester-long course. Check here to see more about ongoing work and discussions around coaching.
Coaching Writings
Executive coaching
Mandela Washington Fellows (essay)
This essay is a reflection on the small-group executive coaching enagement we offered to the summer 2024 Mandela Washington Fellows to kickstart a process of personal transformation is support of their learning around leadership and entrepreneurship at Lehigh.
International students and coaching
(2023) Well-Being and Coaching (essay)
This essay, published by EAIE, proposes that coaching, with its sensitivity or capacity to listen to difference, offers a particularly empowering way to support international students’ well-being.
Coaching for diverse student populations
(2022) Infusing Coaching-Based Practices at Lehigh University (article)
In this article that appeared in the The Global Impact Exchange, "Collaborating for Self, Other and World Well-Being," several coaching efforts within global education at Lehigh are discussed.