Coaching

Coaching, Mentoring, and Consulting

Our coaching, mentoring, and consulting experiences happen within the Daring to Dismantle Institute. The institute is based on the IST of an ISM book series: Daring to Dismantle (check each book out in Books).

Let us work with YOU, whether the word, YOU, refers to individual, groups, teams, organizations or institutions to dare to dismantle oppression one layer in need of resourcing at a time!

Coaching and Mentoring Testimonials

Coaching and Mentoring

"Enlightened. Activated. These are just three adjectives to describe the impact I've personally experienced by having Dr. Debi Jenkins as my coach. From challenging my thinking to helping me realize my goals, her extensive knowledge, insight and skill helped me discover ways to ignite and share my flame!" ~Crystal D Hill, Personal and Executive Coach

"With humor, wit, knowledge, and grace Dr. Debi inspires me to dig deeper and discover my authentic self. She challenges me to embrace discomfort and conflict as a path to self—actualization. Her coaching sessions balance natural flow and structure, which inspires me to practice (a lot) and make progress towards my goals." ~Eloise Gout Koehler, Board Member in Private-Nonprofit Sectors Community Liaison

"Working with Dr. Jenkins has been so impactful for me personally and professionally. My thinking about my biracial identity has grown more sophisticated through the short time I’ve been working with her. She has been helping me unlock my relationship with my Blackness in a way I have never had access to or a framework for. This allows me to show up as a version of myself that is more authentic to me and my own lived experience in ways that are hopefully less harmful for my Black colleagues and friends." ~ Xyanthe Neider, Antiracism Educator and Activist

"Dr. Debi's coaching leadership has given me the ability to focus better on my professional goals, have patience when leading difficult conversations with others within my community and to be a better problem solver! On a personal growth level, she allowed a safe space for me to utilize gratitude, enjoy present moments and to look forward to my next life's ventures!" ~Carmen Rodriguez McKibben, Community Activist and Professional in Non-Profit Leadership

"Dr. Debi quickly picked up on details and nuances and put together a clear, concise picture of what I was dealing with and used inquiry to lead me to PRACTICAL insights. She is direct, brilliant, loving, and courageous in her delivery. With Dr. Debi, I have a ferocious and zealous advocate who loves me enough to cheer me towards the best version of myself and circumstances." ~Hala Teeny, Attorney

Consulting Testimonials

"Dr. Debi helped propel our team and division’s equity work forward with the use of the Intercultural Development Inventory. With our team, she was able to help us connect with self-reflections of where we are currently and where we wanted to go, and to help make meaning of that as a group. It was a telling and powerful experience that exposed significant cracks in our foundation and opportunities for repair and trust building. She did not shy away from the feelings in the virtual room and instead modeled what it looked like to lean into the discomfort to aid in our growth. While the experience at the larger division level wasn’t as intimate, her one-on-one coaching sessions inspired me and many of my teammates to dream big about the work we are doing and hope to do in community—on both a personal and professional level. Any opportunity you have to work with Dr. Debi is a chance you should not pass up!" ~Monica Wilson, Director, Student Success Center & Strategic Initiatives Washington State Board for Community and Technical Colleges

"Thank you for your work and guidance supporting the Foundation for Vancouver Public Schools Strategic Planning Group and the start of our DEI journey at the foundation. You provided valuable tools for us, and we will reach out if there are other opportunities in the future! Thank you!" ~ Timothea Sutton, Executive Director Foundation for the Fort Vancouver School District

"Dr. Debi was an excellent coach (one on one with individual members) and consultant (professional development trainings) for our team. She met us where we were, helped us dive more deeply into our identities and refine our goals. Her JEDI (justice-equity-diversity-inclusion) training session was moving, interpersonal, and interactive. Thank you, Dr. Debi for caring for us, informing us, pressing us, and changing us!" ~Carrie Kondor, Director of Education

"Thank you so very much for your work with our board and our entire church. Your professionalism, knowledge, experience, and warmth are bright lights in the world." ~Mike Roth, Lead Pastor

"FVR Libraries chose to work with Share the Flame, LLC to develop an Anti-Bias Education Framework to support equitable outcomes in our Children and Family programming. Dr. Debi quickly recognized that, as an organization, we had significant foundational work to do to effectively process and heal from some of our collective experiences around a specific program that received a mix of community support and backlash. Our work with Dr. Debi allowed us to move forward as an organization by giving us the space and guidance to safely work through our missteps, helping to lead us to systemic healing. With Dr. Debi's help, we were able to clarify our intent behind offering programs designed to reflect the needs and aspirations of systemically non-dominant communities through work in racial equity, and anti-bias education. The outcome of Dr. Debi’s efforts with us is a well thought out and crafted framework to guide staff in developing Children and Family programs with a firm foundation in Anti-Bias Education at the core." ~Justin Keeler, Fort Vancouver Regional Libraries Outreach and Community Partnerships Director

Founder "Foundations" Program

"Before we do the work of dismantling, we ground ourselves. Resourcing is how we honor our nervous systems, our histories, and ourselves, so this work can be done with integrity, care, and shared responsibility. Justice work that isn’t resourced becomes extractive. The Founder Foundations Program exists to ensure we begin from care, consent, and grounded participation—before we move deeper into the critical work of dismantling.” ~ Debra (Debi) Jenkins, PhD, Founder

Founder Foundations Program is the required entry point into all pathways. It serves as a trauma-informed orientation designed to resource participants through coaching and or mentoring before engaging in deeper learning, dialogue, and justice-centered work.

Participants will look at present and forward liberatory movement where societal, systemic, racial and minoritized, developmental, institutional workplace, institutional medical, and relational areas of betrayal trauma may have impacted future and next step resourcing. Participants incorporate a framework that can shift obstacles from where they are now to where they desire to be.

This program builds shared language around trauma-informed participation, nervous system awareness, consent, and pacing. Participants also explore their resources shaped by lived experience, culture, and survival—learning how to engage without over-reliance on protective strategies.

Founder Foundations is not a space for trauma processing. It is a resourcing container that supports clarity, self-responsibility, and community care, ensuring that all participants enter pathways grounded, aware, and aligned with the Institute’s values and practices.

Why this program is required

All pathways within the Institute begin with the Founder Foundations Program because this work asks more of us than information consumption—it asks for presence, responsibility, and care.

This program exists to ensure that participants:

Acquire a trauma-informed language and understanding
Recognize their strengths without over-relying on survival strategies
Participate in ways that protect both individual and collective well-being

Grounding before the work is an act of integrity.

By beginning here, we create conditions where resourcing is not rushed, justice work is not extractive, and learning remains rooted in humanity, dignity, and care.

Completion of the Founder Foundations Program affirms readiness—not perfection—to move into deeper pathways with awareness, agency, and shared responsibility.

Resourced "Founder" Pathway

Trauma-informed, justice-rooted leadership for entrepreneurs, educators, creatives, and program leads building equitable, sustainable work

You are building something you are responsible for.
That deserves resourcing—not sacrifice.

The Resourced Founder Pathway supports people who are creating businesses, programs, curricula, initiatives, or creative work—and want to lead without burnout, extraction, or self-abandonment.

This pathway dismantles hustle and martyr leadership and replaces them with leadership grounded in capacity, ethics, and sustainability.

What This Pathway Supports

Ethical leadership identity and power
Anti-extractive work and program design
Justice-aligned approaches to money and labor
Boundaries, visibility, and voice without self-erasure
Sustainable rhythms that support long-term leadership

How It Works

Resourced Founder is an application pathway of the Daring to Dismantle Institute, building on the foundation of Integrated Trauma Resourcing.

You may enter:

after completing the foundation
or alongside it

There is no urgency—only alignment with your current season.

Resourced "Leadership" Pathway

Trauma-informed, justice-rooted leadership for executives, organizations, and institutions

Leadership shapes systems. Systems shape people.

This pathway supports leaders and organizations committed to dismantling harm and building systems people do not need to recover from.

Focus areas include:

trauma-informed systems leadership
ethical power, authority, and accountability
justice beyond performative equity
workplace trauma and collective care
sustainable organizational futures

This pathway builds on Integrated Trauma Resourcing and applies Daring to Dismantle at the systems and cultural level.

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Pricing & Access

Each leadership layer is custom designed based on context, individual or group size, and goals. Investment typically ranges from mid four figures to mid five figures.

Why We Don’t List Prices Publicly

Leadership rooted in trauma-informed and justice-based practice cannot be standardized into one fixed price.

The work of the Daring to Dismantle Institute involves:

custom design and preparation
relational and nervous-system-aware facilitation
ethical holding of power, context, and complexity
accountability for impact, not just delivery

Because of this, investment varies based on context, scale, and format.

How Investment Is Determined

Pricing is shaped by:

the pathway you are engaging (Founder or Leadership)
format (self-paced, group, retreat, workshop, keynote, consulting)
level of facilitation and customization required
group size and duration
organizational resources and capacity

This approach allows us to remain aligned with our values without under-resourcing the work.

Our Commitment to Justice & Access

We believe:

leadership work should not rely on unpaid emotional labor
sustainability is an ethical responsibility
access should be intentional, not extractive

To support this, we:

offer tiered engagement options
provide supported rates for educators and community leaders when possible
prioritize organizational partnerships that subsidize access
avoid sliding-scale models that require justification or self-disclosure

Access is built through structure—not guilt.

What You Can Expect

Across pathways and formats, investment reflects:

executive-level leadership support
trauma-informed facilitation
justice-rooted design
preparation, integration, and care

This is not transactional work.
It is relational, ethical, and capacity building.

Disclaimer

At Share the Flame™, our services are trauma-informed coaching, mentoring, and consulting experiences and not clinical therapy. If you require diagnosis or trauma specific treatment, please seek a licensed mental health professional.

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