"What needs to change in the world of coaching for it to take an anti-racist approach?”

Drawing on the research report on Racial Justice, Equity and Belonging in Coaching, our guest for this episode, Charmaine Roche, argues that we need to move beyond diversity and inclusion to anti-oppression, liberation, and freedom. She asks, "What if people do not like the table you are inviting them to sit at? Why not redesign the table, or remove the need for one, not just change the composition of the faces that sit around it?”

The intention behind change is as important as the nature of the change, explains Charmaine asking, "What would a culture that values all, where all have a voice, are seen and heard look like?"

She discusses how the issue of race exemplifies many tensions and how structural and systemic racism is hard-boiled into our social, economic and political systems. Charmaine expresses how we need something more than different faces at the same table.