Definition of Courageous Presence: It’s the practice of approaching fear with kindness and curiosity, utilizing specific strategies to transform the experience. 

• Importance of Safety: Safety, both internal and external, is crucial for courageous presence. It allows for vulnerability and authentic connection. 

• Three Underlying Strategies:Recalibrating: Expanding perspective by asking "what else is true?" This helps to challenge the limited view fear often imposes. 

• Excavating: Identifying the underlying pain that fear protects by asking "what pain is this fear protecting me from?" Acknowledging and accepting the pain diminishes fear's power. 

• Elevating: Shifting from fear to desire by asking "what good thing does this fear want for me?" Framing fear as a yearning for something positive can transform the experience into a thrilling adventure. 

• On creating safety: "There's an interesting both and here because we can create safety together. And team charters and mutual accountability and rules of the road and how we want to treat each other are a huge piece of psychological safety in teams." 

"It's of the three, the least transformative. You have to do a lot of reps recalibrating before the same fear stops grabbing you and derailing you." 

• Experiential Learning: The session includes guided exercises allowing participants to experience each of the three strategies using a personal challenge as a focal point. This fosters a deeper understanding of the concepts and their practical application. 

"There's nothing wrong with you for being vulnerable. There's nothing wrong with you for being afraid. And we can move through it." 

• Applications in Coaching: 

• Individual Coaching: These strategies can help clients to identify, understand, and overcome their fears, leading to personal growth and transformation. 

• Team Coaching: Courageous presence can be facilitated in team settings to address shared fears and build trust, vulnerability, and ultimately, stronger team dynamics. 

"And you've probably had these moments in your life or with clients where they can finally feel the grief that they've been holding back for years and let it go. And the world is a sunnier place and they feel lighter and new things are possible for them." 

• Further Exploration: 

• The session touches on the potential of applying courageous presence to address collective team fears and unconscious norms. This is an area ripe for further exploration and development. 

• Exploring how somatic work can be integrated into these practices, particularly in excavating past pain, is another avenue for future development.