Relational Practice Coaching
Bring the way you work closer to what you believe.
You care about how you lead, teach, collaborate, and show up for others. But practicing those values inside real organizations and relationships can be complicated.
Relational Practice Coaching gives you space to notice what’s happening, examine what sits underneath it, and decide how you want to practice.
3
Private Sessions
$450
founding rate
4–6
weeks
Best Value
Relational Practice Coaching
450
Relational Practice Coaching helps you examine what’s happening, understand what’s beneath it, and align how you work, lead, and relate with the values that matter to you.
Valid for 6 weeks
A focused 4–6 week private coaching engagement
3 private 60-minute coaching sessions
Guided reflection between sessions
A small practice experiment grounded in your real context
Brief email check-ins between sessions
A closing reflection and next steps
When your values and your reality don’t quite match.
Maybe you’re wondering:
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How do I practice care without carrying everything?
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How do I lead relationally inside a transactional system?
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How do I invite participation without forcing it?
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What is actually mine to change here?
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What do I do when two values I care about conflict?
You don’t need to arrive with the answer. You don’t even need to have the question perfectly figured out.
Bring the situation. We’ll start there.
A different kind of coaching
Relational Practice Coaching isn’t about fixing you or making you more productive.It’s a space to examine what’s happening, understand what’s underneath it, and decide how you want to respond.
Together, we’ll consider three things:
NOTICE
What’s really happening?
Slow down. Notice the tension, assumptions, relationships, and values involved.
EXAMINE
What’s underneath it?
Explore what is yours, what exists between people, and what may belong to the larger system.
PRACTICE
What do you want to do with what you now see?
Choose something to try, change, ask, notice, stop, or approach differently.
Notice → Examine → Practice
Reflection becomes practice. Practice gives you something new to notice.
Relational Practice Coaching: Foundations
A focused 4–6 week private coaching engagement designed around something real in your professional practice.
No course to complete. No pile of worksheets. Just thoughtful conversation, reflection, and practice.
You’ll receive:
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3 private 60-minute coaching sessions
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Guided reflection between sessions
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A small practice experiment grounded in your real context
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Brief email check-ins between sessions
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A closing reflection and next steps
Is this for me?
Relational Practice Coaching is currently designed for educators and mission-driven professionals who care not only about what they accomplish, but how they practice while doing it.
You might be a teacher, faculty member, librarian, learning professional, nonprofit leader, administrator, community-engagement professional, founder, or someone doing values-driven work inside a complicated organization.
Your job title matters less than the question you’re carrying.
Hi, I’m Megan.
I’m Megan Zara, founder of The Open Practice Academy and a PhD student in Leadership and Change at Antioch University. My background spans education, libraries, open education, learning design, faculty development, professional learning, community engagement, and organizational change.
Across all of that work, I keep returning to one question:
How do the values we say matter become visible in the way we actually practice?
That’s the question at the heart of Relational Practice Coaching.
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Bring something real.
A difficult conversation.
A leadership tension.
A boundary you’re struggling to hold.
A value you aren’t sure how to practice.
A situation you can’t quite name yet.
We’ll examine it together.
Relational Practice Coaching: Foundations
3
Private Sessions
$450
founding rate
4–6
weeks
Your first conversation is free.