Group Coaching
Supports small groups or teams of people who share similar experiences, challenges, or a common goal. It is a professionally held space where learning, reflection, and change happen in support with others.
Group coaching creates access to coaching while also offering the power of shared experience. Participants learn alongside others who get it — sharing lived experience, being seen and reflected by peers, and deepening learning through resonance rather than instruction alone. This shared context builds community, reduces isolation, and allows knowledge and resources to be pooled and exchanged.
While peer learning is well established as effective, many of the challenges we face are not individual problems to solve, but relational and systemic patterns that benefit from being worked with collectively. Group coaching creates conditions for these patterns to be seen, understood, and shifted — often in ways that make things better for everyone involved.
I host group coaching for:
young people or emerging adults seeking space to pause, explore identity, and design what comes next alongside peers
parents of neurodivergent kids who benefit from shared learning, normalization, and relational support within a regulated group environment
teams, leadership groups, or organizations navigating transition, conflict, or the need for greater alignment and collaboration
leaders in similar roles across organizations facing common challenges
Who this is for
How groups begin
Group coaching typically begins in one of three ways:
I launch and host an open group offering (shared on gilliannycum.com and social channels).
A number of individuals express interest in group coaching around a shared theme, and I convene a group.
An existing group, team, or organization assembles (6-10 people) and contacts me directly.
How group coaching works
Sessions are designed to respond to the needs of the group - as they arrive and as they evolve - balancing depth with practicality and relevance.
Depending on context, group coaching may include:
mentoring, guided reflection, shared inquiry, and collective sense-making
relational skill-building and communication practices
conflict navigation and repair
collective visioning and alignment
support for nervous system regulation in group settings
integration of learning into everyday group and organizational life
This work often complements - or naturally evolves into - facilitation, particularly when groups are ready to move from reflection into collective action, decision-making, or structural change.