In the Playing Big Course, we spend two weeks on each module, focusing on a Playing Big tool or concept. This gives you a week to learn about the topic, join our live workshop (or listen to / view the recording), and then a second week to put the tools and new approaches into practice in your own life. 

In the Facilitators Training, we spend two weeks on each module/topic.

• In Week 1, we focus on applying the Playing Big tool/concept to your own life. In that first week, we join with the broader Playing Big Course community, so you also get to see coaching demos with a wide diversity of women from varied industries and fields – useful for learning as a Facilitator as well!
• In Week 2, we join just as our Facilitators community and focus on how to apply the Playing Big tool/concept to work with others – clients, mentees, students, or team members you want to support. You’ll also have the opportunity to practice using the coaching tools through our lab calls.

For most participants who are moving along with us module by module, it’s around one to two hours a week for Playing Big, and around two to three hours per week for the Facilitators Training. That includes our calls, readings, worksheets, supplementary curriculum materials, and time for you to participate in online discussion forums if you wish. However, we make it very easy to skip a week (or more) when you need to and pick up again with the current module – leaving you free to make up the missed material whenever you can.

All of our sessions will be recorded and posted within 24 hours, available as video and audio recordings. We also provide full written transcripts. You can always submit Q&A questions outside of our course session. 

For the Facilitators Training coaching practice sessions, you can always connect with another participant in our discussion forum and practice together at your convenience. We provide materials to support you in this.

The Playing Big programs takes place in a group format, within which each individual member will have the opportunity to share challenges, reflect on their learnings, and ask questions with individual feedback from Tara. Our workshop calls are highly interactive – Tara is live on the calls, these are not pre-recorded. If you’re not able to attend a session, you can always submit questions ahead of time and then listen to the recording.

One of our greatest joys as a team is being able to provide a space for connection, support and meaningful dialogue – to help people shore up through each other. We look forward to doing that through your course experience, too.

Over the years we’ve found that some course participants are very eager to connect with others as a core part of their course experience, and other participants are more focused on simply absorbing the content. We’ve structured our courses so both paths are available. There are many optional ways to engage with the community, and our online discussion groups (hosted outside of mainstream social media) are places where you can dialogue with other participants and find people in your local area, or with shared interests.

If you choose to join us for our optional virtual meet-ups, you will also be meeting and connecting with other participants in small groups.

The cost of the Playing Big Facilitators Training program is $2699 USD when paid in full, or you can choose the 8-month payment option for $374 USD/month. As a graduate of the program, you’ll be invited to attend future Facilitators Training sessions at no additional cost.

We also have a 12-month payment option (for $230 USD/month) if that’s a better fit for your budget. If you are interested in this payment option when registration opens, please contact our team for details (playingbig@taramohr.com).

The cost of the Playing Big course is $874 USD when paid in full, or you can choose the 6-month payment option for $164 USD/month. As a graduate of the program, you’ll be invited to attend future Playing Big sessions at no additional cost.

We also have a 12-month payment option (for $80 USD/month) if that’s a better fit for your budget. If you are interested in this payment option when registration opens, please contact our team for details (playingbig@taramohr.com).

At the conclusion of the program, we’ll provide you with a link that has all the course materials in one easy-to-access location that is yours forever. As a graduate of the program, you’ll also be able to participate in future sessions at no additional cost.

No problem. We can help. Message us through the chat button in the lower righthand corner of your screen, or email playingbig@taramohr.com and we’ll get you all set up.

The courses offer something very different from the book – in fact, nearly all of our students come to the Playing Big programs after reading the book, and find tremendous additional value in the course experience. They get support, structure, wise pacing, and accountability applying the Playing Big work in their life, plus get new, additional content developed since the book’s publication.

In the Playing Big Course, we cover the concepts and material in an interactive context, with these added benefits:

• A well-paced curriculum that keeps you from rushing through the material or only digesting it mentally. Instead, you have the support and time to put new ways of working and living into action in your life.
• Dynamic class sessions where Tara teaches about the concepts in her own words, answers questions, and coaches participants.
• A structured time to do the writing and other exercises in the Playing Big process so you know you’ll get them done​,​ with ​the additional ​support and time to debrief and unpack what comes up for you.
• Reminders and inspiration from Tara along the way (delivered by text​ message​ and/or email, your choice) to ensure that you put the new habits into place, even when life gets hectic.
• Community – the opportunity to connect with and be supported by a global community of women playing bigger.
• Lots of supplementary resources, plus new material and Tara’s latest thinking ​since the book’s publication.

In the Facilitators Training, you also learn a very different body of content than is in the book. Our focus is on enabling you to go out and facilitate Playing Big work with others with confidence and ease for incredible impact – bringing the tools to those that you work with, whether you are a coach, consultant, educator, manager, mentor, therapist or in another supportive role. In contrast with the book reading experience, in the Facilitators Training you get access to:

• Wide-ranging coaching demos that show how to use the Playing Big tools in varied situations. 
• Guided Lab sessions to practice using the Playing Big coaching tools in a safe and comfortable learning environment.
• Tara’s pioneering Coaching Skills 101 Training, sharing her unique approach to coaching. 
• Turnkey materials to share with others, such as worksheets and handouts, enhancing your work in 1:1 sessions and groups.
• Q&A and workshop sessions specifically for those facilitating Playing Big work as coaches, consultants, therapists, mentors, managers, educators, and in other supportive roles.
• The opportunity to earn 40 International Coaching Federation continuing education units and include this training in your professional credentials. 

Here is how a couple of our participants felt about the difference between taking a course and reading the book:

“After coming across the Playing Big book, I couldn’t put it down. Each chapter felt like it was speaking directly to me and my situation. I was curious what additional value could be added from the Playing Big program, and I was blown away. The deeper exploration and community support enhanced my experience in ways I hadn’t anticipated.”
– Lauren Wilde, psychotherapist

“I had read Playing Big years ago and found it life-changing. When the opportunity came to take the facilitators course, I knew I wanted to go deeper and learn directly from Tara, and it exceeded all expectations. Access to Tara herself, her thoughtful guidance, and the program’s structure were incredibly valuable. I also gained so much from practicing each Lab module with my Lab Partner, whose insights and reflections deepened the experience even further. This program helped me reengage with the tools at a new level and gave me even more confidence in bringing them into the lives of those I support. I highly recommend it to anyone who coaches, leads, or supports others in any capacity.”
– Jody LaVoie, Grief and Transition Coach- Widows in the Workplace and The Grief Company

So glad you asked! The first thing for you to know is, yes, we have people from all over the world participating in our online programs. On average, 40% of our participants live outside the U.S., and span over fifty countries.

Many have questions about making the timing of a program work. First, if the live call times don’t work for you, that’s no problem! You can access a video, audio, or written recording shortly afterward. There are lots of ways to connect with other participants in the courses and to get your questions answered.

Over the years, our graduates have shared again and again in their feedback that whether they participate live or via recordings (or some combination of both), the course is absolutely transformative in moving them into their playing big.

Still have questions? Send us a message (via the chat button on the bottom right corner of your screen) and we would love to chat with you.

First of all, if you are asking yourself this question and wondering if you’ll be in a different stage of life than the group, we want you to know you aren’t alone! The usual age range of the course participants is 30s through 70s, with a strong cohort in each decade. We have many participants who are mid-career and are moving into new kinds of playing big at this stage.

We also have many participants who connect with the Playing Big community when they are on the verge of retirement or are thinking of pursuing a new calling or career in their 50s, 60s or beyond. Sometimes, these individuals know what that calling is, and sometimes they aren’t sure yet or are weighing many possible directions. You will be in good company and our private discussion groups will allow you to connect with others who are at a similar stage in life to you.

It’s a great question. Here are a few things to keep in mind: The course materials are always simple to access. The course combines written materials, worksheets and exercises, live calls, and recorded audio and video learning. The variety of formats means you’ll be able to digest the material in ways that work for you.

Because Tara’s programs are highly experiential and interactive, we don’t experience the attrition or weak learning outcomes that many distance-learning programs do. The pluses of a distance-learning approach are that you’ll connect with like-minded people from all over the world and that you can learn/participate in a way that works easily with your schedule.

No. The Playing Big tools and model were developed largely through work with individuals who identify as women. Some parts of our content relate to the specific ways women and girls are socialized, research on women in the workplace, and the kinds of biases women are often met with.

That being said, individuals who identify as a wide range of genders have found usefulness in the tools. Many of our tools have near universal applicability. Others are resonant for those who are underrepresented in current power structures – for a wide range of reasons, including and apart from gender.

Individuals of all genders are welcomed as full participants in the course, and graduates of the program can take what they’ve learned and integrate into work with any population they desire to support.

You are not alone. Many of us share these mixed feelings about the notion of playing big. Many of us are drained by the state of the world now and just trying to keep things afloat. Others worry that playing big will mean leaving behind things we love — free time, or the quiet and simple parts of our lives. Many of us worry that playing bigger would mean we’d somehow stand out, or stand apart, from the people we love — and we don’t want that. Many of us feel fatigued by our culture’s need for everything to be big, bigger, biggest. We know that’s not sustainable for human beings or the planet. We don’t want to perpetuate that kind of thinking.

All of these ambivalences are very normal — and in my view, they are precisely the reason why we need a context and a journey to redefine and reclaim playing big for ourselves — to find a playing big that is aligned with our values, allows us to stay in community and relationship, and that’s good for the earth, too.

In the Playing Big model, each person defines playing big on their own terms. For most, playing big does not mean owning an empire or getting overtaken by a drive toward success. Playing big means courageously going for your personal dreams and longings and having the positive impact your heart wants to have in the world.

This program teaches an inside-out definition of playing big. Playing big isn’t about striving harder or doing more. It is about honestly accepting one’s true aspirations and callings and playing big in going for them. Because it leads to us being more aligned with our authentic selves, and more tapped into our passions, it generally creates more energy, less stress, and far less striving in our lives. It’s an alternative to perfectionistic go-go-going​ — a deeper path of self-actualization.

The Playing Big model offers a set of tools and concepts that you can easily integrate into your own approach to managing, mentoring, advising or coaching. For example, therapists can apply the Playing Big facilitation tools and concepts, using their own theoretical orientation lens, to help clients improve coping skills, increase self esteem, and foster greater resilience. Or as a manager, you might use the Playing Big toolkit to complement your existing one, particularly when helping team members around issues of confidence, voice, and leadership development.

Great question! This program does give you the skills to bring the Playing Big model to groups, workshops, retreats, company settings, and more. We also provide you with a variety of materials for leading workshops, or using in 1:1 coaching, consulting, or mentoring sessions.

And, when you fulfill our course completion requirements, you are encouraged to add to your professional qualifications that you’ve Completed the Playing Big Facilitators Training with Tara Mohr.

However, our grads don’t teach Playing Big branded programs. We want you to integrate the tools into what you – individually – most want to do, and use them in your own unique way.

No, the Facilitators Training includes all the elements of the Playing Big Course. 

The Playing Big Course focuses just on your own Playing Big. Our Facilitators Training includes the Playing Big Course, and adds a comprehensive training for doing this work with others. 

If you decide that Playing Big is a better fit for you this year, you can start there! Playing Big Course graduates can apply their course tuition toward a future session of the Facilitators Training.

Absolutely! We have many coaches in the program, but we also have participants in academia, corporate managers, mentors, health care practitioners and others. We provide a pre-recorded Coaching Skills 101 workshop as a supplemental, optional part of the program and recommend you complete this if you do not have a coaching or counseling background. The Coaching Skills 101 workshop is included with your Facilitators Training registration. Full written transcripts are also provided. This is a purely optional element but a great supplemental resource (for seasoned coaches as well!).

The Facilitators Training is accredited by International Coach Federation (ICF) for 40 Continuing Coach Education (CCE) units – 21 in Core Competencies and 19 in Resource Development. At the close of the program, if you would like to receive certification for these CCE units, you’ll simply:

1. confirm that you’ve attended live, or watched the recording, of all Guided Workshops and completed the worksheets that are used on the call.
2. confirm that you’ve completed all Lab Calls. We highly recommend that you attend the live Lab Calls or, if you’re unable to attend, create your own practice time with another participant of the course. If neither of those are possible, you may use the Lab Call Agenda to practice with a current client or a person in your life who would like coaching.
3. successfully complete the final written assessment to demonstrate your learnings.

This is not a certification or a licensing program. It’s a training program that equips you to use the Playing Big tools in your work for powerful impact with those you coach, mentor, and teach. If you would like to state that you have “completed the Playing Big Facilitators Training with Tara Mohr,” at the close of the program you’ll simply:

1. confirm that you’ve completed the curriculum for all modules
2. successfully complete the final written assessment to demonstrate your learnings.

Then you are free – and encouraged! – to share that you’ve taken this training program.

The Playing Big Facilitators Training is also accredited by the International Coach Federation (ICF). Upon completion, coaches will receive certification for 40 Continuing Coach Education (CCE) units – 21 in Core Competencies and 19 in Resource Development.

The Playing Big curriculum was developed primarily for and with individuals who identify as women, out of a passion for bringing women’s voices to the fore. However, we have participants of all gender identities using the model with great success in their lives and careers.

Ensuring diversity and inclusion has been a key part of our work in designing the Playing Big programs from early on. Here are some of the ways we’ve done that throughout the past several years:

• Since the program’s inception, we regularly gather feedback on the course experience from BIPOC women and ensure that the program is impactful, relevant and inclusive. We do this both through periodic deep dive conversations and quantitative course evaluation data.
• Integrating discussions of culture, identity and bias throughout our modules.
• A robust course scholarship program that serves individuals working in social justice, public service and activism, so that our trainings can help amplify work being done in those areas.

We also know there is a lot more that we can do – and continue to grow in this area.

Yes, we have a document you can provide your employer. Click here to download the Playing Big for Professional Development Program Guide. 

We have several options for companies registering an employee, or group of employees, in one of our programs:

•   You (or someone from your company) can use a corporate credit card to register. If you need us to update the email address and/or name of the participant after the registration is processed, our team can help you do so. We can also send a PDF receipt.
•   You can register for the program using your own credit card, and then we can issue a PDF receipt in your name, and your company can reimburse you.
•   If there is a delay in obtaining approval from your company, we recommend that you register with your own credit card. We will refund your credit card after we receive payment for your registration via a corporate credit card.

Feel free to email us at playingbig.com if you have any questions. We are here to help!

You aren’t alone. Our self-doubts tend to show up when we are embarking on something unfamiliar, especially something that matters to our hearts. Know that having that inner critic chatter away in moments like these is very common. And also know that you are coming into a very welcoming, gentle community! If our past course participants are any indicator, by the end of our first meeting, those doubts will be quieted and you will be feeling exhilarated and joyful about being in the course!

That’s okay. Some participants come into the course with a specific idea of what playing bigger looks like for them. Others aren’t sure, but find that the skills and tools we learn in the course allow them to play bigger in all areas of their lives and support them as their next passion or professional direction emerges.

All program materials are yours for life — so even if an unexpected change in your schedule happens, you can still get the full value of the program when you are ready. We’ve also structured the program so that you can easily skip a module (or more) but join us wherever we are in the program, then catch up on the other modules when you have time.

If within the first 30 days of the program, you find the program isn’t working for you, and you have submitted your completed program materials and worksheets from the course to date, you may request a cancellation of your membership and receive a refund.

Well, if you were my coaching client I’d ask you to:

• Check in with your body: How does the idea of registering feel in your body — good and exciting? Good but scary/exhilarating? Those are good signs.
• Notice what part of you is hesitant: Your inner wisdom? Listen up. Inner critic? Voice of fear? Not good voices to listen to. Question what they are saying. Especially question any voices telling you that you somehow don’t measure up to being in this group, or won’t be able to “do it right,” or that the time to do this has to be just right.
• Explore: Is there a particular fear or worry you have? If so, write it down and examine it in the light.
• Ask yourself: If you knew you couldn’t fail at this, and that you’d fit in beautifully with the group — what would you do?

Reflect: What are your intentions for the coming year? Does this feel well aligned, or not?