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Practising Social Change is the practitioner’s journal of The NTL Institute for Applied Behavioural Science.

It is a collaborative and reflective meeting place for practitioners in Applied Behavioural Science who seek to work at their developmental edge: curious, conceptual thinkers charged with supporting change in work relationships, in teams, in communities or in the larger society, and who may be able to learn from the experience of others in different parts of the world.

Navigating Social-Group Identity in the Coaching Relationship Part 3

Sukari Pinnock Fitts and Amber Mayes

Integrating the Fifth Domain into Coaching Practice and Training Programs Over the years, coaches who have attended our workshops and conference presentations have quickly embraced the notion of a competency gap between the coaching training they have received and what the field of Applied Behavioral Science (ABS) is presently calling on coaches to support. Realizing - often for the first time - that they may not be equipped with the training necessary to support all clients equitably, most of the coaches introduced to the Fifth Domain Coaching model are compelled to learn more. They have requested tools, frameworks, and hands-on experiential development to help them fill the gap in this competency area. This article, the third and final of the series, is intended to help coaches expand their awareness and develop the competencies needed to access...

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The Author

Sukari Pinnock Fitts

Sukari is a cisgender woman and a member of the Black Diaspora. She is a heterosexual Baby Boomer, living with a hidden disability and some degree of socio-economic privilege as a U.S. National. She has no religious affiliation, believing strongly that the "Universe Provides." Sukari is the daughter of a Jamaican immigrant father and South Carolinian mother, and was raised with one sibling in a working-class, multi-racial neighborhood in Los Angeles, California. Now residing in Northern Virginia – on the historic and stolen lands of the Nakachanct –...

Amber Mayes

Amber is an African American & Greek, Gen X, heterosexual, Cis woman. She grew up middle class in the Boston area in a racially diverse working-class neighborhood. Raised in a multicultural household by an African American father from Georgia and a Greek immigrant mother, she developed an early passion for helping people communicate across differences. In the past 32 years Amber has developed a global leadership coaching and organization consulting practice that integrates issues of diversity, equity, and inclusion. She is based in Northern California...