Whether traditionally employed, making the best of a slash career, running a small business, managing a team, or participating in the gig economy, people are hungry to reevaluate their relationships with work and success.

They want to engage with work in a sustainable and satisfying way. They define success differently from their parents—and maybe their boss, too. 

And, they’re looking for someone like you who can help them find a more humane relationship with work.

• You’re a coach, strategist, trainer, consultant, or other type of guide
• You work closely with people who want to learn to work (or lead) with less stress and feel less anxious about how productive or efficient they are (or aren’t)
• You’ve noticed how difficult it is to help people retrain themselves to think about work differently
• You’ve already started to unpack some of your own assumptions about work, productivity, and self-worth—and you’re ready to go way deeper

With Work In Practice, you gain not only a new perspective on work, culture, and identity for yourself—but a coaching toolkit to supercharge your work with clients or team members.

During the program, we’ll cover:

• The root causes of habits like overwork, overdelivering, and over-functioning (hint: they’re not personal failings)
• The tell-tale signs of harmful stories and assumptions in the way people talk about work (because career development and self-help guides are full of them!)
• The frameworks that can help clients or team members understand their relationship to work—and how to change it
• The systems—cultural, economic, and political—that shape how we identify as workers and what we expect of ourselves

What does a humane approach to work mean?

Since the industrial revolution, we’ve tried to make workers more and more like machines. We focus on productivity and efficiency to drive profit—and ignore how this drives alienation, inequality, and dehumanization. 

A humane approach to work must be one in which the experience of the work is just as important—if not more so—than the product of that work. But to make that kind of approach possible, we must deconstruct the beliefs and patterns that inform the way we work today.

What’s more, the knowledge-based, creative, and care-oriented work that’s in demand today requires a humane approach. Working in extractive, efficiency-oriented systems is antithetical to realizing great results for all stakeholders.

Is the Work In Practice approach right for your clients or team members?

If you work with people who are chronically overworking, overcommitted, and overscheduling, Work In Practice will help you support their behavior change. If you work with people who say they’re done with the gospel of productivity or the ritual of the 10-hour workday but can’t seem to shake it, Work In Practice will give you tools to help them do deeper and actually do things differently.

If you work with people who love their work and want more from it, Work In Practice will help you guide them to a less toxic, more fruitful work-life. 

Most likely, your clients or team members are knowledge workers or creatives. They may be self-employed, business owners, long-term contractors, or traditional employees. 

About the Live Sessions

Each live session will consist of an instructor talk, Q&A, and group discussion. You’ll receive a slide deck for the talk before each session. Closed captioning will be available during the live session, and a transcript will be provided when the session is complete. All sessions will be recorded and available both in video and audio.

My goal is to create group discussions that are introvert- and neurodivergence-friendly. I will give 2-3 minutes of time to think about conversation-starter questions or topics before we dive in. I fully support participating in the discussion in any way that feels comfortable—including off-camera or via written chat.

If you need accommodations that I haven’t mentioned here, please let me know. Due to my own capacity and limitations, I’m not able to meet every accommodation—but I’d like the chance to try!

I bring three core values to everything I do: care, context, and curiosity. These values are woven throughout this program. And they also inform my approach to community spaces like this program. I am a radical feminist, and I use my work to support the cause of liberation—including social, economic, and climate justice.

Care

Community spaces should be places of mutual concern. In other words, we care about each other. That doesn’t mean we’ll always agree or see things in the same way. We each bring different experiences and perspectives to the group. But with every interaction, we endeavor to demonstrate care through our words and actions.

Context

Community spaces should be places where we look below the surface and investigate the context of ideas, points of view, and ways of seeing. Some context-gathering happens with others (e.g., we can draw on a variety of resources to help us understand an idea or perspective). But some context-gathering is an individual responsibility (e.g., we don’t ask people to relive their trauma or explain aspects of their culture or background that can be found on Wikipedia).

Curiosity

Community spaces should be places where we question the status quo and eagerly learn about new ways of being. As a group, we agree to welcome curiosity but express our personal boundaries when necessary.

I’ve tried to include materials from a variety of voices in this program. Of course, not every perspective is represented here. If you’re looking for a voice from a particular group on a particular topic, please let me know. I’ll do my best to locate one.

Finally, a big component of this program is analyzing and discussing cultural, political, and economic systems. I am not perfect at this, and I don’t expect perfection from anyone else. These conversations can be tricky and, sometimes, uncomfortable. Our goal is to remember dismantling or deconstructing systems isn’t an act of personal attack. When in doubt, return to care, context, and curiosity.

Take the Next Step

To register, complete a short intake form and submit a $500 deposit. You’ll also select whether you’d prefer to pay in 3 installments or pay in full (minus the deposit). If you’ve gotten this far, you’re probably a perfect fit for the program. But if I have any questions or concerns about your intake form, I’ll get in touch straight away. If you’re not a fit for the program, I’ll refund your deposit ASAP.

Or, request the program syllabus.

A Note About Pricing

Pricing a program like this is tricky! That’s my problem, not yours, of course. I tried to situate the pricing for this program between the higher-end (represented by similar programs at universities or through coaching associations) and the lower-end (represented by continuing education cultural studies courses). At this time, I don’t have the capacity for reduced tuition options—but will in the future.