What It’s Like to Work Together
Coaching with Dawn blends mindfulness practice, reflective inquiry, leadership development, and real-world application.
Together we:
Explore patterns of power and leadership
Build mindfulness and self-awareness practices
Develop skills for navigating conflict, boundaries, and change
Strengthen inclusive leadership capacities
Apply insights directly to your family, team, organization, or community
This Work Is For
Leaders navigating organizational change
Facilitators and mindfulness teachers serving diverse communities
Nonprofit and mission-driven professionals
Teams seeking healthier ways to navigate conflict
People committed to both personal and collective transformation
Before, you are
Avoiding difficult conversations
Feeling overwhelmed by leadership responsibilities
Unsure how to navigate power and difference
Team conflict that feels stuck
After coaching, you have
Greater clarity and confidence
Stronger relationships and trust
More skillful conversations across difference
Teams that can move through conflict and change together
How We Work Together
Understand the Present
Assess leadership challenges, team dynamics, and opportunities for growth.Practice New Ways of Leading
Build mindfulness, awareness, communication, and power-conscious leadership skills.Create Lasting Change
Apply those practices to your organization, relationships, and community.
You Already Have More Skills Than You Think
As a spiritual guide, you know how to:
Hold space for transformation without controlling the outcome
Maintain loving presence during someone's darkest moments
Trust that authentic expression wants to emerge
Remove obstacles rather than force solutions
Practice loving detachment while staying deeply engaged
Navigate the bind between individual needs, community needs, and larger purpose
These are exactly the skills organizational stewardship requires.
The key is developing the same caring but non-enmeshed relationship with your organization that you have with your students.
You care deeply, but you're not drowning in it.
You have perspective.
You can see the larger pattern of transformation even when daily reality feels chaotic.
How I Help Leaders Navigate the Sacred Complexity
I'm Dawn Haney, and I've walked this path myself - from spiritual teacher and activist to organizational leader, learning to navigate the three-way bind with skill instead of crashing into invisible barriers.
My approach helps you:
See the 3-way bind explicitly instead of feeling confused and overwhelmed
Navigate volume and space with intention - when you're on stage teaching, your job is to fill it, project your voice, use the microphone to reach the back row; when you're in a community meeting you evaluate your power in relationship to the room and choose to move up or move back, listen or speak more; when you're at the staff table, you show up fully but don't dominate - you're present and engaged while creating room for your team to bring their ideas and leadership
Practice power-sensitive leadership that honors all three dimensions
Develop a caring but non-enmeshed relationship with the organizational entity you're stewarding
Build support systems because this navigation is too complex to do alone
Two Ways to Work Together
1:1 Leadership Coaching
Personal coaching for the leader who needs to develop the internal capacity to steward organizational transformation. We work on your spiritual assignment of guiding your organization's soul through its dark night while maintaining your own groundedness and vision.
Organizational Consulting
On-retainer support for organizations going through culture change or culture crisis. I help organizational entities find their authentic expression in the world by working with leadership teams to navigate the systemic forces and remove impediments to their true purpose.
Whether you're the leader who needs support or the organization that needs guidance, this work is about recognizing that organizational leadership isn't a distraction from your spiritual calling - it's the advanced course.
It's time to become the spiritual advisor to your organization's soul and steward its transformation.
Schedule a free 15-minute call with Dawn to enter this sacred work.