Coach — Katie Reginato Cascamo, Ph.D. Candidate
Coach

The whole person is the starting point.

Most coaching begins with a goal. This work begins with a person — the full, complicated, sometimes exhausted, genuinely capable person who is already here. Six sessions. Six dimensions of a life. From the self outward into the world.

The Foundation
This is not optimization coaching. It is integration coaching.

There is a particular kind of exhaustion that comes from leading well on the outside while something has gone quiet on the inside. The performance metrics are fine. The calendar is full. And yet something essential — some quality of presence, of aliveness, of genuine engagement — has become harder to access.

That gap is not a productivity problem. It is a wholeness problem. And it cannot be solved by adding more — more goals, more frameworks, more accountability structures. It resolves, slowly and honestly, by attending to what has been set aside.

Whole-person coaching holds the full human in the room: the professional and the personal, the accomplished and the uncertain, the strengths and the tender edges where growth is still happening. It does not ask a person to leave part of themselves outside before the work begins.

You cannot give from a self you have not tended.
What This Work Holds

Six dimensions of whole-person practice — each one present in every session, each one integral to the arc of the work.

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Interior Condition
The quality of attention a leader brings to any room begins with the interior condition they arrived from. This work tends that interior — honestly, without bypassing what is actually there.
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Embodied Presence
The whole person includes a body that carries history, fatigue, and wisdom. Presence is not a mental discipline alone — it is a somatic practice, and this coaching honors that.
03
Relational Integrity
Who we are in relationship — to our colleagues, our families, our own commitments — is not separate from our leadership. This work attends to the whole relational field.
04
Cognitive & Creative Capacity
The mind that thinks, makes, synthesizes, and generates is a dimension of the whole person. This work attends to how a person thinks — not only what they decide.
05
Purpose and Vocation
The deepest questions a person carries — about meaning, contribution, and direction — are not distractions from the work. They are the work. This space holds them seriously.
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Spiritual & Contemplative Ground
Every person leads from some deeper ground — a source of meaning, orientation, and renewal beneath the role, the title, and the achievement. This work takes that ground seriously, whatever form it holds for each person.
The Six-Session Arc
Beginning with the self. Moving outward into the world.

The six sessions are booked together at the outset and held over the course of three months — two sessions per month, each 90 minutes. That container is intentional. Three months is long enough for the work to take root and for real change to become visible, and focused enough to hold momentum across the full arc.

Each session moves the work one circle outward — from the deepest interior toward the widest sphere of contribution. The arc is not arbitrary. It follows the shape that transformation actually takes: you cannot lead a family well from a self you have not attended to. You cannot contribute to a community from a family life that is in disrepair. The inner work enables the outer work, at every level.

Courageous Steps whole-person coaching model Concentric circles moving from Self at center outward through Family, Community, Career, Globe, and Courageous Steps. Self Family Community Career Globe Courageous Steps SESSION 1 SESSION 2 SESSION 3 SESSION 4 SESSION 5 SESSION 6
Session 1
The Self
Building your foundation — values, self-awareness, and interior condition.
Session 2
The Family
Understanding your first formation — patterns inherited and narrative rewritten.
Session 3
The Community
Expanding your influence — presence, brand, and contribution beyond your immediate circle.
Session 4
The Career
Aligning work with who you are — values, identity, and contribution.
Session 5
The Globe
Worldview, legacy, and situating yourself in the wider world.
Session 6
Courageous Steps
Commissioning what comes next — a roadmap at 3, 6, 12, and 18 months.
The inner work enables the outer work, at every level. 6 sessions · 90 min each · 3 months

Adapted from Horsman, J. H. (2018). Servant-leaders in training: Foundations of the philosophy of servant-leadership. Springer International Publishing.

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Session One

The Self — building your foundation

We begin where all genuine work begins: with you. Not the role you hold, the accomplishments you carry, or the person others expect you to be — but the self beneath all of that. Together we explore your core values, the limiting beliefs that quietly shape your decisions, and the self-awareness that makes growth possible. We examine what fuels your energy, what brings meaning, and what vision of thriving is genuinely yours rather than inherited.

Outcome: A strong personal foundation from which every other dimension of the work can grow.

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Session Two

The Family — understanding your first formation

Family — however you define it — is where most of us first encountered leadership: being led, leading others, navigating care and conflict and belonging. The patterns we developed there did not stay there. They traveled with us into every relationship, every team, every community we have ever inhabited. In this session we trace those patterns — not to assign blame or rehearse grievance, but to understand the origins of the leadership style you carry today, and to choose which patterns to carry forward and which to rewrite.

Outcome: Deeper self-awareness of how early formation shapes current leadership, and clarity about the narrative you are intentionally crafting.

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Session Three

The Community — expanding your influence

Leadership does not live only in organizations and institutions. It lives in neighborhoods, in civic spaces, in the relationships you hold with people who share your place. In this session we explore your role in the communities you inhabit — and how the presence you bring there reflects, shapes, and extends your personal brand as a leader. We examine the contribution you are making, the connections you are building, and the ways your values are expressed — or waiting to be expressed — in the world beyond your front door.

Outcome: A clearer sense of purpose within your community and a personal brand grounded in genuine values rather than performed identity.

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Session Four

The Career — aligning work with who you are

Work is one of the most significant places a person's values are either expressed or compromised. In this session we examine the thread that connects your professional life to your personal formation — who shaped your work ethic, what values you carry into every role, where your work aligns with who you are becoming, and where the misalignment is costing you. Using personality and strengths frameworks as one lens among many, we develop a clearer picture of the professional contribution that is distinctively yours to make.

Outcome: Enhanced professional clarity and a grounded plan for creating meaningful contribution in your career.

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Session Five

The Globe — situating yourself in the wider world

Your worldview — the philosophical framework through which you interpret experience, make decisions, and understand your place in the world — is not fixed. It has been shaped by everything you have lived, and it continues to evolve. In this session we examine the lens through which you see the world: the cultural, spiritual, and social values that animate it; the questions of purpose and legacy it raises; and the ways it either expands or contracts your capacity to lead across difference, to serve across boundaries, and to contribute to something larger than your own life.

Outcome: A purpose-driven outlook grounded in a conscious, examined worldview — and actionable steps toward your broader legacy.

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Session Six

Courageous Steps — commissioning what comes next

The final session is not a conclusion. It is a commissioning. We revisit and integrate the full arc of the work — from the self outward — and craft a roadmap for what comes next, with milestones at 3, 6, 12, and 18 months. The goal of this work was never dependency on a coach. It was your growing capacity to lead from within — to bring the whole of who you are to every dimension of your life, and to inspire that wholeness in the people and communities around you. This session sends you forward equipped, not finished.

Outcome: An integrated roadmap for sustained growth — and the confidence to take the next courageous step on your own terms.

Who This Work Serves
You do not have to be in crisis. You have to be curious.

This work is not reserved for those who are struggling. It is for those who sense that something more is possible — in their leadership, in their relationships, in their inner life — and who are willing to be honest about what is currently in the way.

Leaders at a Threshold
You are navigating a transition — in role, in identity, in the kind of leader you are becoming — and the old maps no longer serve.
Practitioners Carrying Complexity
Clinicians, educators, advocates, and caregivers whose work involves holding others — and who need a space to be held themselves.
Those Who Lead From Within
Parent leaders, patient advocates, community members who show up. Leadership is not reserved for title-holders. Neither is this coaching.
Those Navigating Transformation
Anyone at a genuine threshold — personal or professional — where the old way of operating is no longer sufficient and something new is trying to emerge.
After the Three Months
The work does not end. It deepens.

When the six sessions conclude, the coaching relationship does not simply close. What follows is a structured sequence of follow-up conversations — timed to meet you at a different stage of putting the work into practice.

Follow-UpFocus
3 months post-coaching A momentum check — evaluating early progress, adjusting habits and routines, and addressing obstacles before they become entrenched patterns.
6 months post-coaching Deepening the impact — assessing how changes have taken root across the spheres of the work, and exploring how your growth is radiating outward to others.
12 months post-coaching Celebrating and expanding — reflecting on a full year of growth, identifying new edges, and developing strategies for the next level of contribution.
18 months post-coaching Legacy and renewed vision — solidifying your legacy-building goals, deepening your capacity to guide others, and setting your course for the next chapter.

Let us begin a conversation.

If something in this resonates — if you are navigating something you have not navigated before, or carrying a question that has not had adequate space — begin with an introductory conversation. No obligation. No sales process. Only a genuine exchange.