Liberating Strategies: Hosting Deep Change – Appreciative Inquiry in Action

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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 and excellence as seeds for positive and possible futures.

Through the frameworks of Appreciative Inquiry, Calling In, and Beyond Inclusion Beyond Empowerment, you will develop skills to define, discover, dream, design, deliver, and debrief liberation.

What You’ll Experience:

• Action-oriented methods (psychodrama, journaling, sanctuary-building)
• Deconstructing systemic oppression with practical tools for change
• Centering marginalized voices in an inclusive, welcoming space
• Developing relational accountability and sustainable liberatory practices

REQUIRED READING: Beyond Inclusion, Beyond Empowerment by Dr. Leticia Nieto

(If you don’t already have it, purchase the book here)

What You’ll Gain

A 20-hour professional development series in anti-oppression skills applied through Coaching for Change and Appreciative Inquiry in Action. Designed for professionals across sectors, this series equips participants with both theoretical grounding and practical tools to foster liberatory change within organizations, schools, and communities.

Key Learning Areas:

• Appreciative Inquiry as a Tool for Liberation: Identify peak moments of vitality and excellence as seeds for crafting strengths-based, resilient futures.
• Centering Marginalized Voices: Commit to cultural humility, decolonization, and intersectional liberation through equitable learning spaces.
• Experiential & Relational Practices: Engage in psychodrama, journaling, and relational sanctuary methods.
• Practical Application: Apply concepts through coaching, facilitation, and peer connection.

Why Now?

In these complex times, we need transformative, strengths-based approaches to equity work. By integrating Appreciative Inquiry with anti-oppression 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.

Course Breakdown

SCHEDULE: 10 Mondays | 3:00 – 5:00 PM PT/6:00-8:00 PM ET

• June 16, 23, 30
• July 14, 21, 28

• Aug 11, 25
• Sep 15, 22

Breaks include: July 7, Aug 4, 18, Sept 1, 8

WHERE: Virtual on Zoom

Who Should Attend?

This series is for professionals committed to social justice, equity, and culture change, including:

• Coaches, counselors, facilitators, and trainers
• Practitioners of organizational systems development and leadership
• Change agents in corporate, nonprofit, education, and community settings

How to Register

Space is limited – secure your spot today!

PAYMENT OPTIONS:

✅ Save $200 when paying in full: $1,800

✅ Monthly payments: 4 x $500

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

To claim your referral discount: email admin@be-possible.com with your referral CC’d to receive a discount registration link.

Join us in co-creating a liberatory, transformational culture through Appreciative Inquiry and anti-oppression skill-building.

Let’s uplift and liberate together!