Play as a Pathway: Unlocking Learning and Awareness in Coaching

Do you ever feel stuck, or like you’ve hit a ceiling with the tools you’re currently using with clients?

Are you struggling to cultivate deeper awareness or move conversations beyond intellectual insight into meaningful action?

Have you reached a point where conversations stay on the surface, and real breakthroughs feel just out of reach?

This workshop invites you to expand your one-on-one coaching approach through the power of play.

Learning Objectives:

• Understand the principles of play-based experiential learning and its application in coaching

• Explore how games and facilitated activities can support individual and group coaching outcomes

• Learn strategies for connecting play-based experiences to reflection, insight, and action

• Identify opportunities to incorporate experiential methods into their existing coaching approach

In this half-day experience, we’ll explore how play-based and experiential activities can help coaches uncover deeper insights by moving beyond self-reporting and into real-time observation. Through facilitated experiences, coaches gain a window into how clients communicate, make decisions, navigate uncertainty, respond to challenges, and engage with others in the moment.

As an evidence-informed coaching tool, play creates opportunities for heightened self-awareness, reflection, experimentation, and learning. It offers clients a low-risk environment to surface patterns, assumptions, and behaviors that may otherwise remain hidden in traditional conversation-based coaching.

Together, we’ll explore how games and experiential activities can be used to:

• Illuminate communication and information-processing styles.

• Uncover attitudes toward risk, change, and decision-making.

• Explore values, priorities, and leadership tendencies.

• Create opportunities to experiment with new behaviors and perspectives.

• Deepen engagement and accelerate insight within the coaching process.

By the end of the session, participants will leave with practical tools and activities they can immediately incorporate into their coaching practice to foster deeper client engagement, insight, and sustainable growth.

Meet Your Course Facilitators

Neta Ein-Gil Glassberg, M.Sc., is an ACC-certified leadership and intercultural coach and facilitator with over 20 years of managerial and business development experience across corporate, nonprofit, and cross-cultural environments. With a background in psychology and leadership development, she helps individuals and teams deepen self-awareness, strengthen communication, and navigate complexity through experiential learning practices. Raised across multiple countries, Neta brings a global perspective and deep cultural sensitivity to her work. She combines strategic insight, psychology, and play-based approaches to create meaningful and transformative coaching experiences.

Dr. Margaux Manley Lima is an executive coach and leadership facilitator who helps leaders navigate growth, transition, and change with greater clarity, confidence, and intention. Drawing on more than two decades of experience across higher education, nonprofit leadership, and organizational development, she creates reflective and engaging spaces where individuals and teams can build self-awareness, strengthen leadership presence, and unlock new ways of thinking and leading. Margaux integrates developmental coaching, experiential learning, and play-based facilitation to help clients move beyond insight into meaningful action and lasting impact.

Alexandra Suchman is the CEO and co-founder of Barometer XP, whose mission is to create cultures where people are excited about their work because they feel a strong sense of purpose and belonging. Along with her cofounder, she developed a methodology for play-based facilitation that identifies and addresses the root cause of inefficiency and dysfunction so they can succeed together, faster. She was 2026 Enterprising Women of the Year honoree, a finalist for the Metro DC ATD Award for Excellence in Innovative Learning, has been featured in Forbes and in Kaizen Made Easy’s Top 9 Leadership Conversations, and is a sought-after speaker and thought leader on using play as a tool for organizational effectiveness and employee success.