Boundaries That Build Trust: A Practice Lab for Coaches

The Boundaries That Build Trust SIG is a practice-based learning community grounded in boundary tensions coaches encounter in practice. It explores moments of emotional pull, over-responsibility, uncertainty, and relational strain.

This SIG centers on common coaching and human scenarios where boundaries are felt before they are clear. Sessions are anchored in situations such as:

👉 Feeling responsible for a client’s emotional regulation
👉 Sensing urgency to fix, rescue, or extend beyond capacity
👉 Navigating client dependency or blurred role expectations
👉 Holding compassion while noticing depletion or discomfort
👉 Staying relational while expressing limits or clarity

Life-Serving Boundaries by Elia Chardé Lowe serves as a shared reference rather than a book study. Boundaries are rarely announced clearly; they’re often felt as shifts in capacity or through emotional pull. This SIG helps coaches notice those signals and experiment with authentic expression in real time.