INDIVIDUAL COACHING

Through our one-on-one, tailored coaching partnership, you'll have the opportunity to strengthen your capacity according to your immediate and longer-term needs, in such areas as:

• Finding your voice as a movement leader. 

• Grounding actions in personal values and beliefs.

• Naming your needs in alignment with your values. 

• Identifying resources and supports for staying power. 

• Leading with intent for equity, justice, and healing.

TEAM COACHING

Team coaching is a process in which the coach partners with the entire team to support the team in improving team dynamics and communication streams, identify and leverage strengths, increase clarity and trust, and enhance the team’s capacity to address current and future challenges. This is a space for transformation in communications, transparency, and collaboration to:

• Align on team purpose, objectives, and expectations.

• Foster positive peer reciprocity and collaboration.

• Support a learning organization by encouraging innovation and knowledge-sharing.

• Nurture a culture of trust, mutual support, and joy among your team.

Helen Chin

Helen is a deeply feeling, quiet observer with a heart-led spirit for justice and freedom. As a coach, she uses curiosity, compassion, and creativity to support her coach partners in uncovering their needs and values, practicing choice in their journey, and moving through internal and external conflict. She comes to coaching and facilitation through a winding journey in the nonprofit and public sectors, working at the intersecting arenas of race, poverty, housing, health, and homelessness.  

She practices at the intersections of transformative justice, anti-oppression analysis, abolition, and is shaped by Buddhist mindful and body-based awareness, Black Radical Tradition, and Indigenous and relational worldviews. It is her privilege and honor to walk with and witness the divinity of movement leaders as they uncover their true essence and grow toward healing and liberation. 

Helen is a certified professional coach through the Coaching for Healing, Justice, and Liberation Program.

Maya's coaching style is rooted in empathy, reflection, and challenging clients to grow their self-awareness and take incremental, accessible steps towards achieving their goals. With her extensive experience in the nonprofit field and as a consultant in movement spaces, Maya brings a wealth of knowledge on leadership development, relationship-building, strategic planning, supervision and communication, and team-building to her coaching practice.

Maya is a caring and present listener who encourages her clients to reflect on their vision, desires, and goals. She understands the barriers that can arise in mission-driven careers and for values-based professionals and provides support to individuals and teams looking to create impact and change both within and beyond their organizations. Her empathetic approach is complemented by her willingness to challenge her coachee partners to try out new perspectives and approaches. 

Maya is an accredited coach through the International Coaching Federation.