queer- and crip-informed coaching & organizational consulting

Image description: Ingrid, a middle-aged White woman with a long ponytail who is wearing a bright blue dress and a colorful cloth face-mask. She's sitting in her wheelchair outdoors, next to a fuschia orchid. Photo credit: Christopher Egusa

play-positive supports for weathering transitions, sustaining growth with diverse, fluid capacities, and failing with intention

Hi, I’m Ingrid (she/them).

My values-centered coaching is for multiply-marginalized people, including coaches, coping with the inequities of ableism, internalized and systemic.

My grounding framework is that ableism is the problem, not disability, chronic illness, aging, neuro-divergence, pregnancy, mental health issues, or care-giving. Ableism is a societal disorder that no individual can fully overcome, ignore, or McGuyver their way out of. Coping with it is demanding and draining.

I consult with organizations on the transformational change that anti-ableism work unlocks when it’s mission-driven. By imagining and growing a holistic culture of disability-life balance, organizations develop an inclusive conduit for addressing other urgent areas of culture change, inside and out, including White supremacy, gender and parental status discrimination, transphobia, and income inequality.

I bring my whole she/her self to my coaching and consulting. As a 100% crip, severely disabled, and incurably silly person, I use empathy, imagination, and humor nourished by 30 years as a Bay Area civil rights fundraiser and communications professional, nonprofit manager, and grassroots women’s health/HIV test educator.

If you’re interested in working together, book a free intro session with me.

We're excited to launch this circle because ableism,

a type of inequity that affects all communities, is

seldom included in a meaningful way in coach training.

A Circle for Coaches

6 sessions, your choice of Circle April-June; July-Sept; Aug-Oct

Facilitated by FireSeed partners Daley Laing and Ingrid Tischer

Price: $1500

Sliding scale ($500 and up) because affordability is an access issue!

online ● six 1.5 hour sessions ● two 30-min private check-ins

This circle is for: Coaches at all levels who want to deepen their work with disabled, aging, neurodiverse, pregnant, chronically ill, addicted, and/or care-giving clients.

This circle will be: More like a playground than a schoolroom; highly participatory; about culture change more than information transfer.

This circle engages ableism’s accomplices: Racism, classism and cis-sexism all too often collaborate with ableism. We are committed to all of them being named and engaged with.

This circle does not require: You to disclose or identify lived experience with disability, etc.

Not feeling confident in your understanding of ableism? Not a problem!

Ableism implicates us all, so all coaches are welcome.

Our goal – there’s that coaching word! – is that Circle members will HELP each other to:

Uplift the anti-ableism expertise of disabled coaches who may be present in the Circle and who are rarely centered or even visible in the coaching world.

Welcome and hold the presence of ableism in a session whether your client brings it in explicitly or you sense it lurking beneath the surface.

Gracefully pivot away from coaching practices and messages that inadvertently amplify the implicitly ableist “do more, go faster, fix it,” model of success.

Create a culture of access in their own coaching practice.

Become co-conspirators in challenging the coaching field to better serve the majority of their clients by leveling up their knowledge of disability to an equity based understanding of systemic ableism.

Circle members will gently investigate their own relationships

to ableism - personally, culturally, and as coaches, bringing

in all aspects of their identity and experience of inequity.

Each session will include a coaching exercise and opportunity for feedback.

Everyone will go deeper at their own pace. You'll have the freedom to be confused, awkward, and messy. And brilliant! There will be grace and space for differences, big and small, from terminology to realizing how our relationships have profoundly shaped our responses to ableism. Laughing will be strongly encouraged because ableism can be absurd.

We aim to keep it informal, playful, and feelings-focused with creative options for describing feelings, thoughts, and experiences.

Your Sunday-best self is definitely invited and your regular-human self is even more welcome. While you won’t receive “official credits” for participating in this circle, we promise we'll give credit where credit is due.

In solidarity and with silliness,

Daley and Ingrid

circles will have 4-6 MEmbers, pluS daley & ingrid.

We’re committed to achieving diverse representation in each circle so that no one feels tokenized.

If it’s taking time to fill a balanced circle, we will push back its dates accordingly.

step 1 is completing this registration-ish form.

you’re always welcome to contact Daley or Ingrid if you want to know more about the circle, its access, or TO just say howdy.

“To be with Daley and Ingrid is to be with two incredible beings hell-bent on doing their part to co-create an environment where you will grow, learn, and be (re)inspired and committed to justice and liberation. I know this because I’ve been honored and privileged to work with, learn from, and play alongside them both! They have lots of training skills, experience, and talent as facilitators, trainers, and coaches, plus abundant lived experience with disability justice and ableism. Starting way back in the 1990s and continuing today, they've given me a life-changing understanding of how ableism intersects with other areas of systemic injustice: race, class, gender, sexual identity, age, etc. But the reason I’ve wanted to work with both of them over and over is because they’re fun even when the topics at hand are anything but. They show up in their partnerships (with each other and with people they work with) with compassion, respect, humor, and playfulness. They truly see joy and laughter as revolutionary acts and a practice of liberation.”

Belma González, Nonprofit Coach & Facilitator, Co-Founder, With/In Collaborative

culture-change Co-conspirators wanted!

Our 2024 Circles welcome all coaches who want more visibility and less silence on the ableism we and our clients experience as an equity issue. The Circles will be safe and creative spaces for exploring ableism’s effects on us as individuals, coaches, and society members. Circles for Coaches start in the spring, summer, and early fall. Sliding scale available.

Not a coach but interested in a Circle for yourself and/or your group? Let us know!

Photo of Daley, a white femme with shoulder length brown hair, wearing a pink and black animal print shirt, smiling in front of a dark green background

Affordable, Accessible Supports for Feelings, Flourishing and Transformative Futures

Hi, I'm Daley (they/them).

I am a white disabled non-binary straight-sized middle class survivor offering accessible, anti-oppression informed supports in alignment with liberation. These supports include coaching conversations for individuals as well as workshops and consulting for organizations.

This work is about facilitating your right to self-determination, healing and transformation in ways that create the worlds you and your communities need.

Currently, I am not able to expand my practice to new people. I highly recommend connecting with Ingrid, a co-conspirator in this work.