Coaching that refuses neutrality
Personal and professional development rests on a compelling promise: that with the right tools, the right mindset, and enough self-awareness, it’s possible to close the gap between where you are and where you want to be.
This practice engages a prior question: what produced that gap in the first place?
Lived realities don’t become personal burdens on their own.
Exhaustion, friction, the cost of not fitting, the weight of adjusting constantly without that adjustment ever being acknowledged, the sense that the rules apply differently depending on who we are. These are usually framed as a personal failure, yet they rarely begin with the individual. They begin with structural conditions made invisible by design.
When those go unexamined, the pressure to adapt lands on the person. This work interrogates those conditions and the systems of power that produce, normalize, and extract from their invisibility. What becomes possible is a clearer relationship to what is actually ours to carry, and what never was.
Writing, published in in Critique, interrogates the knowledge infrastructure of personal and professional development: the concepts, narratives, and institutions that naturalize certain conditions while making others feel impossible to name. It opens conversation with researchers, feminist organizations, and institutions working the same conditions from different sites.
Coaching engages at the level of lived experiences working with people navigating real friction in specific situations, relationships, and institutions. It returns interpretive authority to the person and interrogates what has been assigned as personal responsibility.
Who is this for?
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For critical thinkers and non-conformists, those who are perceptive, deeply reflective, and tired of being asked to adapt endlessly to flawed systems without interrogating the conditions of that adaptation. For those whose resistance to dominant norms is too often recoded as something to be corrected.
RADICAL COACHING 