Leadership and Professional Development

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Liberating Strategies

Facilitated by Dr. Leticia Nieto & Be Possible

In collaboration with Dr. Leticia Nieto, Be Possible invites you to an interactive and relational learning experience. You’ll cultivate a relational sanctuary to explore moments of vitality as seeds for positive and possible futures.

‍Through the frameworks of Appreciative Relating, Calling In, and Beyond Inclusion Beyond Empowerment you will develop invitational skills for hosting deep change.
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What You'll Experience:
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• Embodied methods (psychodrama, journaling, sanctuary-building)
• Building Liberatory Spaces
• Reclaiming new and ancient ways of being
• Developing relational accountability and appreciative relationship building
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REQUIRED READING: Beyond Inclusion, Beyond Empowerment by Dr. Leticia Nieto (If you don’t already have it, purchase the book here)

This unique combination of methodologies provides an immersive experience in transformational skill-building and human flourishing. See more details below.

DATES: Mondays, June 16 – September 22, 2025
TIME: 3:00 – 5:00 PM PT/6:00-8:00 PM ET

INVESTMENT:

Referral Discount: Bring a friend and save! Both receive a $400 discount ($1,600 each)

What you'll gain

A 20-hour personal and leadership development series in transformational skills applied through coaching for change and appreciative relating in action. Designed for people engaging across sectors, this series equips participants with both theoretical grounding and practical tools to foster liberatory change within organizations, schools, and communities.

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Why now?

In these complex times, we need evolutionary, strengths-based approaches to all our work. By integrating Appreciative Relating with transformative methodologies, this series cultivates pathways to lasting change—grounded in relational accountability and liberation.

About Your Guide

Leticia Nieto, PsyD, LMFT, TEP is a leadership coach, psychotherapist, and educator specializing in liberation and equity, cultural responsiveness, motivational patterning, and evolutionary creativity.

She has over 30 years of experience in higher education as a Tenured Full Professor, teaching graduate-level counseling and coaching. After retiring from full-time teaching, she has become an entrepreneur, expanding her practice to training, consulting, and executive coaching for higher education, business, government, and non-profit organizations. Dr. Nieto has provided extensive coaching and training for various institutions, including Western Washington University, The Evergreen State College, Oregon State University, University of Washington, AntiochUniversity, Peninsula College, and Portland Community Colleges. She also maintains a private practice, supervising and training counselors and coaches.

Dr. Nieto specializes in addressing social justice concerns from a developmental ecological perspective. Her interests lie in systemic transformation, survivance, song and poetry, relational repair, joy, radical rest, intersectional coalition, and reparative and restorative justice. She is recognized internationally and is bilingual in Spanish and English. Dr. Nieto is a sought-after keynote speaker and panelist for various conferences and events. She has presented at conferences such as the Washington State Psychological Association Conference, ChangeEquity and Community Conference, and the Washington State Faculty & Staff of Color in Higher Education Conference.

Some of the topics she has presented on include embodiment of equity and change in troubled times, strengthening multi-identity coalitions, psychodrama and eating disorders, anti-racism in medicine, and playback theatre for social justice.

As an author, Dr. Nieto is the lead author of the book Beyond Inclusion, Beyond Empowerment: A Developmental Strategy to Liberate Everyone. She continues to write and publish on equity, liberation, and justice in various journals, books, and online platforms.

Hosting Deep Change - Appreciative Relating in Action 2025

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