Why Coaches Choose the Playing Big Model
Do you feel called to help women step into their full potential and have greater impact through their voices and contributions?
Coaches seek out the Playing Big model because they find in it an incredibly powerful toolkit for supporting the women they serve. Some are long-time coaches. Some are just getting started.
Our programs for coaches help you increase your impact, effectiveness and joy in your work, while supporting you in your own playing bigger too.
We are here to help you fulfill your goals for you if:
You want to see a world being shaped far more by women’s brilliance, contributions and voices—and are committed to helping make that change in the world by supporting women through coaching-based work via 1:1 and/or group sessions, courses, and/or workshops; independent from or inside an organization.
You are interested in coaching, not as a form of hierarchical advising, but as deeper work of helping people tap into their own wisdom.
You are interested in using an approach that blends head, heart, and soul—spirituality, ethics, data backed scientific research, business acumen and pragmatism, and a focus on women’s empowerment.
Like me, you know something was missing from your coaching training; something about how to really support women stepping into their full potential.
My own early coaching practice led me to develop the Playing Big toolkit to meet that need—honing tools that truly help women quiet the inner critic, find and tap into their inner wisdom, unhook from praise and criticism, move through fear, negotiate and communicate more powerfully—and more. Today, we’ve trained over 5000+ people in that powerful toolkit, with rave reviews and incredible results.
One beautiful part of this is that our training always has two layers: you learn the Playing Big toolkit to apply to yourself too—to support you in using your voice more fully, clarifying your vision, and stepping into your self-defined playing big. As a result, coaches have seen their practices thrive, developed new offerings with more confidence, and found ways to grow work that truly resonates with them and others.
With that, we layer on the facilitators lens—with teaching, skills training, coaching practice sessions and materials to share—all so that you can then help others step into their playing big too.
What Women Coaches Are Saying
The Playing Big Facilitators Training has taken my coaching practice to a deeper level. This transformational work MUST be shared.
Krysta McNutt
Empath Coaching & Consulting
When I facilitate leadership journeys for senior women executives, I often use a selection of the Playing Big tools. I have rarely found tools that have such a profound impact in such a short period of time.
Dr. Tanvi Gautam
Founder, Leadershift Inc.
The Playing Big Facilitators Training has given me practical tools to enable the women I work with to see past their fears and habits. Women often come to me feeling stuck or overwhelmed, and I now feel better able to support them in moving forward to create the businesses they really want.
Jenny Hyde
Business Coach and Mentor
A Proven, Innovative Model
When you make the investment to be trained in the Playing Big model, you are choosing a proven approach that gets powerful results:
94% of participants trained in the Playing Big model report they can tap into their own inner wisdom more easily
93% report they feel more confident
91% share their ideas more frequently
95% feel a greater sense that they are “enough” to do what they aim to do in the world
What would it be like to experience these powerful changes in yourself and to help bring them about for those you support too?
Join Us For a Course
The Facilitators Training:
For Coaches Who Want to Powerfully Support Women to Thrive & Lead
Through the Playing Big Facilitators Training, you can take your coaching to the next level, with a particular focus on helping women step into their voices, contribution, and wellbeing.
Whether you’re a life, leadership, business, or another type of coach, this in-depth six month training equips you to use the Playing Big toolkit in your work.
In our global course community, you will learn to help women quiet self-doubt, unhook from praise and criticism, clarify their vision, and access their own inner wisdom.
You’ll gain skills and also come away with handouts, worksheets, and resources to share with groups, clients, students, or others you support. 40 ICF Continuing Ed Units.
Facilitators Training Course
The Coaching Way:
Using a Coaching Approach to Help Others Thrive
In The Coaching Way, you will learn Tara’s unique approach to coaching, and learn to create conversations that truly help others unleash their best thinking, creativity, and inner wisdom.
Tara shares her unique four part arc for a coaching conversation, emphasizing coaching as a way of helping people shift their state to a more generative one. Coaches share with us that this unique training helped them bring more depth and efficiency to their coaching.
Again and again, coaches report this 10-week training has allowed them more ease, joy—and fantastic results—with clients. 20 ICF Continuing Ed Units.
The Coaching Way
The Playing Big Course:
For Your Entrepreneurial Journey
In the Playing Big Course, you will apply the tools directly to your business and life. Work through your own inner blocks, clarify your boldest goals, and take real action—all within a global community of women doing the same.
Whether you’re growing a coaching side business, nurturing a full-time business, or navigating a career pivot, the Playing Big Course will support you. Includes live sessions with Tara, coaching demos and Q&As, and a community of over 5,000 trained leaders.
The next sessions of the Playing Big Course and Facilitators Training open for registration in September 2027.
Playing Big Course
What is The Playing Big Model?
Tara Mohr’s Playing Big is a set of ideas, practices, and tools for women who want to play bigger — on their own terms.
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Quiet the Inner Critic
That relentless voice telling you you’re not ready? It’s not the voice of truth — it’s a safety instinct. Playing Big teaches you to recognize it, name it, and stop taking direction from it, so you can lead from your real capabilities instead of your fears.
That relentless voice telling you you’re not ready? It’s not the voice of truth — it’s a safety instinct. Playing Big teaches you to recognize it, name it, and stop taking direction from it, so you can lead from your real capabilities instead of your fears.
2
Access Your Inner Mentor
Through Tara’s signature guided visualization, you’ll connect with a vivid sense of your older, wiser self — and begin using that vision as a compass. How would she approach this client, this pitch, this difficult decision? She becomes your North Star.
Through Tara’s signature guided visualization, you’ll connect with a vivid sense of your older, wiser self — and begin using that vision as a compass. How would she approach this client, this pitch, this difficult decision? She becomes your North Star.
3
Unhook from Praise & Criticism
Women are socialized to be deeply responsive to others’ feedback, which can keep you tailoring your work to please rather than to lead. Playing Big gives you tools to receive feedback without being controlled by it — so you can show up more authentically.
Women are socialized to be deeply responsive to others’ feedback, which can keep you tailoring your work to please rather than to lead. Playing Big gives you tools to receive feedback without being controlled by it — so you can show up more authentically.
4
Communicate & Negotiate with Power
Research shows women often default to speech and writing habits — hedging, qualifying, over-softening — that unintentionally undermine their authority. Playing Big helps you replace them with language that conveys the competence and confidence you already have.
Research shows women often default to speech and writing habits — hedging, qualifying, over-softening — that unintentionally undermine their authority. Playing Big helps you replace them with language that conveys the competence and confidence you already have.
5
Leap Before You’re Ready
Playing big isn’t about grand, dramatic gestures. It’s about taking small, connective steps toward the work that matters most to you — and adopting an experimental, iterative approach to your business, discovering what works through action rather than endless preparation.
6
Clarify Your Callings
If you aren’t sure what your callings are, this module will give you a specific way to figure that out. If you already know, it will help you fulfill them in even more satisfying and bold ways. For entrepreneurs, your callings are the compass for building a business that feels truly yours.
Plus modules on navigating fear, overcoming hiding, goal-setting, and so much more.
Transformational Tools for Your Work
The Playing Big model provides practical tools that you can use to:
Help clients quiet the inner critic and trust in her own wisdom.
Facilitate deeper and faster breakthroughs beyond insight to action.
Find increased confidence without relying on external validation.
Help women navigate fear and uncertainty.
Empower others to share their voices and make their desired impact.
You’ll be learning alongside coaches, therapists, consultants, facilitators, educators, wellness practitioners, leadership development professionals, and women creating transformational work around the world.
This is for you if...
You coach, counsel, mentor, facilitate, teach, or guide women.
You want practical tools and a framework that creates meaningful transformation designed for women.
You believe people already carry wisdom within them.
You want to deepen your impact and effectiveness supporting clients beyond mindset alone.
You are building or growing a coaching, consulting, or facilitation practice.
You want to experience your own Playing Big journey while learning to support others.
You are committed to helping create a world shaped by more women’s voices and leadership.
Hi, I’m Tara
I’m here to help you step into your unique expression of Playing Big—moving into what calls you, inspires you, and brings you fulfillment, in both work and life.
Early in my work coaching, I started to notice something: often, my brilliant women clients simply couldn’t see their own brilliance. They didn’t see how ready they were to go for their aspirations, to do the work they most longed to do, to bring their visions into reality.
I was quite attuned to this because I was in the same struggle myself. I’d turned my back on my longing for a creative, entrepreneurial career. And, though I had lots of reasons to feel confident, I found myself holding back, tentative about my ideas, quiet with my voice.
My early coaching practice became a laboratory to discover: what really makes the biggest difference in helping women play bigger in the ways that matter most to each of us?
What I discovered led to the development of the unique Playing Big model—a toolkit that helps women thrive in work and life: quieting the inner critic, tapping into our inner wisdom, unhooking from fear and criticism, moving through fear, and much more.
Free Resources
Inner Critic Chapter
Get this free chapter from my book, Playing Big, and learn the unique approach that’s been featured in Oprah.com, The New York Times, and goop.
Meet Your Inner Mentor
Discovering and then consulting with your inner mentor is a powerful way to navigate personal and professional decisions.
10 Rules For Brilliant Women
It’s time to step up, brilliant women! Discover the ten principles for owning your brilliance and bringing it to the world.
FAQs
Is this only for certified coaches?
No. The training is valuable for coaches of varied backgrounds, therapists, consultants, educators, facilitators, mentors, wellness practitioners, and others who support women’s growth and development.
Can coaches use the Playing Big or Coaching Way models with clients?
Yes. Many coaches integrate Playing Big concepts and tools into their existing work, where appropriate, to support confidence, self-trust, leadership, personal fulfillment and meaning, navigating issues of feedback, and general personal growth.
The Playing Big Facilitators Training includes instruction for how to use the Playing Big tools most effectively, opportunities to practice the tools with others, and materials you can use with those you support.
Our Coaching Way model gives coaches a unique toolkit—with new skills for listening, asking generative questions, helping clients shift state and generate solutions to everyday challenges and dilemmas.
Do I need prior coaching experience for Tara's programs?
No. Some of our participants are long-time coaches who use these programs to learn a new approach, update their toolkit, and increase their impact. Others are having their first experience of coaching through these programs. Our Coaching 101 starter workshop, included in our Facilitators Training, gives a helpful foundation to those who are new to coaching.
Will I receive materials I can use with clients?
Yes. In the Facilitators Training and Coaching Way programs, participants receive worksheets, handouts, exercises, and implementation guidance for bringing the work into their own settings, including both 1:1 work and group programs, classes, or workshops.
What's the difference between the Playing Big Course and Facilitators Training?
In the Playing Big Course, you focus on your own playing big goals and journey, through 12 powerful modules where you apply the Playing Big tools in your own life and career.
The Facilitators Training includes that work plus training in how to facilitate and teach the model to others. You get access to the full Playing Big Course, as well as to our Facilitators Training. That allows you to further your own playing big, while also learning how to powerfully help others achieve their own playing big. You’ll get access to materials to use with clients, time for practice coaching sessions with others in the course, and if you desire, 40 Continuing Education units from the International Coaching Federation.
You’ll get access to materials to use with clients, time for practice coaching sessions with others in the course, and if you desire, 40 Continuing Education units from the International Coaching Federation.
Can I use these tools in groups and workshops?
Absolutely. Many Facilitators Training graduates use Playing Big tools in group programs, workshops, retreats, leadership development programs, and organizational settings. We provide materials to help you do that, and talk about specific ideas and strategies for using each coaching tool in group settings.
Expand Your Impact. Deepen Your Practice.
You already know the power of helping women grow.
Imagine having a proven set of tools that helps women move beyond self-doubt, trust themselves more deeply, and step into the leadership, contribution, and visibility they are capable of.
The Playing Big Facilitators Training gives you both: powerful transformation for yourself and practical tools to help others. Join Us!
