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Nancy Shanteau

Nancy Shanteau (she/her) is the lineage bearer for Skills for Change Coaching. She is a Master Somatic Coach and the founder of the Folkloom School, the home of the Skills for Change Coaching Certification Program. A settler who lives and works in Nevada County, CA, unceded Nisenan land, Nancy practices Relationship Anarchy and Solo Polyamory, identifies as pansexual and aromantic, and is a white multi-ethnic, non-binary woman. Dedicated to radical, empowering education, Nancy has been teaching and coaching since 2004. “I believe people need safety and a feeling of connection and love in order to change. In a good teaching relationship, the teacher becomes engaged in your dream, and provides support, strength and vision to help you achieve it.”

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About this course

I created this course to help folx understand and practice the communication and embodiment skills required to hold and enact Empowered Boundaries. Our boundaries protect us by letting others know what we want and don't want. But sharing what we want is often not enough. We must show our boundaries with actions consistent with our values. Learning to communicate our boundaries is one skill, creating space when our boundaries are crossed is another.

In addition to boundaries, this course will introduce you to the concept of negotiating standards for shared space and resources. I find folx have a much easier time maintaining standards agreements when they participate in negotiating them. In addition to negotiating the standards, I often encourage folx to agree on the natural consequences associated with breaking the shared standards. This way, the results of failing to meet the standards are known and agreed-upon ahead of time.

Skills for Change contributes to the conversation by supporting us to communicate our boundaries with clarity and compassion. By developing the negotiating skills of Cooperative Communication, we can learn to identify the rescue dynamic and ask for 100% of what we want.

Each time I create a course, I bring all the tools and resources I have available to the learning experiences of students. I am excited to share the power of Skills for Change and the dignity of Empowered Boundaries with all of you. You will find reading, writing exercises, videos, and many learning resources in the course. And if you have questions, you're welcome to reach out to me and I will create course material to address your feedback.

Price: $45*

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