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MasterClass with Elena Espinal, MCC

October 31, 2024

Crossing Internal Borders: Coaching and Awakening the Entrepreneurial Spirit in the Hispanic Community
In this conference, we will explore how certain cultural aspects, sometimes seen as "shadows" in the Hispanic community, such as shame, can influence our daily decisions and our ability to take risks. From a coaching perspective, we will delve into how these behavioral patterns can limit the development of entrepreneurial spirit, the willingness to study, and the depth of self-knowledge. 

1. Cultural Heritage and its Shadows* 
   We will analyze how certain cultural traits in the Hispanic community, such as the fear of failure or the shame of exposing oneself to others, can act as barriers that prevent us from taking risks. These traits, which have been passed down through generations, often lead to extreme self-demand and a need for social conformity that can stifle innovation and the pursuit of new paths.
2. Coaching as a Tool for Transformation 
   Coaching offers a space where these shadows can be recognized and transformed into sources of power. Through deep questioning and guided reflections, coaches can help their clients redefine their relationship with shame and fear, fostering a mindset of growth and resilience.
3. Breaking the Cycle of Shame
   One of the greatest challenges is learning to face shame without letting it control our decisions. We will address how coaching can support Hispanics in breaking these cycles, creating an environment where risk is accepted, and failure is seen as an opportunity to learn and improve.
4. Awakening the Entrepreneurial Spirit 
   We will study how, by overcoming these shadows, Hispanics can open up to new possibilities, such as starting businesses, pursuing higher levels of education, and committing more deeply to personal development. We will look at examples of how deep self-awareness allows for decisions that are more aligned with our values and goals, instead of being conditioned by external expectations.
5. Conclusions and Call to Action 
   The conference will end with an invitation to reflect on our own cultural shadows and how we can, as a community, foster an environment of growth and mutual support. Concrete tools will be offered for coaches and attendees to help individuals cross these internal borders, take more risks, and commit to their self-discovery and development.

This conference will be an opportunity to celebrate our culture, recognizing both its lights and its shadows, and promoting a transformation towards a more expansive and entrepreneurial mindset within the Hispanic community.

Earn 1.5 CCEUs

Dr. Elena Espinal  (Ph D)  is a Master Certified Coach (MCC) ICF, and has thirty three years of experience in leadership development training and coaching, facilitation, and team building services. 

She was born in Argentina, moved to Mexico in 1998, leaving behind the foundation of the first School of Coaching acknowledged by the Secretary of Education and a Company, Team Power (México). She has worked with people from different cultures (Indigenous, and people of different social and cultural backgrounds), in more than 30 countries of all continents with individuals and organizations, Governments and NGO´s. The last 10 years, she is a committed worker for establishing Diversity and Inclusion in Companies and Governments and has formed the first group of 54 blind coaches creating an organization for generating work for them, called: Coaching con Visión.

Because of her background in coaching, psychology and philosophy, she observes the client as a possibility, as well as his/her vision and goals. This attitude generates trust even when the client has to stretch between what is today and what is wanted for the future. She is always searching to push her clients to more of what they see as possible for themselves. She is specialized in Futures Design, and also and has an expended experience in Social Coaching.

As an educator she founded and manages a Mastery in Organizational Human Development with Coaching training in the University of London (Mexico).

Dr. Elena Espinal background is based in Biology and Medicine. She is Lic. In Psychology, Doctor in Dentistry (Ph.D.) and Master in Pathology (MC)

She is acknowledged as an outstanding lecturer.

She wrote the book Crafting the Future. In this books she attempts to inspire the reader to make use of their power to build or design their own life.

She has been honored by the ICF with the Circle of Distinction Award 2022, by the Argentine Association of Coaching as a Master Coach and as an Honorific Member, by the ICF Argentina with an Honorific Acknowledgement for her contribution to the profession, and she was included in the list of the 50 thinkers influencing Coaches around the world in 2022, by Marshall Goldsmith.