Inner Assembly for coaches & facilitators
You hold the room. Here, you are in it.
A year-long practice group for experienced coaches, facilitators, and leadership-development practitioners who want to deepen their craft in the company of accomplished peers.
Study the Inner Assembly curriculum from inside the work. Bring the moments that test your practice. Become more precise about what you notice, what belongs to you, and what the person or group in front of you may actually need.
Do you lead a team or organization? Explore the Leaders cohort.
What happens beneath the words
The longer you practice, the subtler the work becomes.
A client says one thing while their body communicates another. A group becomes quiet and you have to discern whether to intervene or wait. You can feel yourself wanting to rescue, impress, retreat, make meaning too quickly, or move the conversation toward the place where you feel most competent.
Some of the most consequential practitioner decisions happen before there is language for them.
Experienced coaches and facilitators often have many frameworks and very few places where they can bring the session that did not go well, test an uncertain intervention, or be unfinished in the company of peers who understand the craft.
Inner Assembly is a year-long place to keep practicing at that edge.
A modern practitioner junto
Your peers are part of the curriculum.
The Practitioners cohort brings together up to 12 executive coaches, group facilitators, organizational-development practitioners, leadership-development professionals, somatic and systems-oriented practitioners, and other experienced people working with human development.
No single school or modality is privileged. A somatic practitioner may help an executive coach notice the body. A systems practitioner may reveal what an individual lens misses. A skilled group facilitator may help everyone notice what is happening between people rather than only within them.
The group assumes an existing practice. Participants should already work with people or groups and have real situations they can bring into the room.
Over time, peers become familiar with one another’s instincts, strengths, habits, and edges. The reflection becomes more useful because it comes from people who have watched your practice develop.
Greater precision. More choice.
Use yourself more consciously as an instrument of the work.
Over the year, you practice how to:
- track your own state while remaining present with a client or group;
- notice changes in breath, pace, posture, energy, language, and relationship;
- distinguish what belongs to the client, what belongs to you, and what is emerging between you;
- recognize control, pleasing, withdrawal, intellectualization, collapse, and other protective patterns without reducing a person to a label;
- stay with silence and uncertainty without rushing to manufacture an insight;
- choose interventions that are timely, proportionate, and grounded in what is actually happening;
- help awareness become a conversation, decision, boundary, experiment, or repair;
- work with rupture and impact without making the moment about yourself; and
- develop a point of view that remains open to being changed by the person, group, and context in front of you.
The goal is not a larger collection of techniques. It is a wider range of perception and response.
The practitioner is part of the practice
What changes in you changes what becomes possible in the room.
From solving to creating conditions
When a session tightens, you may feel the urge to take control, produce the insight, or move everyone toward an answer. The practice is to notice that impulse without obeying it automatically—to stay connected, make enough room for disagreement or uncertainty, and let the intelligence of the client or group emerge.
From carrying to discerning
Work with people leaves a residue. Inner Assembly helps you notice what you are absorbing, distinguish what belongs to you from what belongs to the client or system, and complete enough of the encounter that you do not carry every room into the next one—or home.
Self-care as part of the craft
Your capacity is not separate from your professional judgment. The basics—rest, boundaries, regulation, honest reflection—shape how well you listen, how quickly you intervene, and whether your desire to help begins to overtake what the person in front of you actually needs.
Learn it. Try it. Bring back what happened.
A year of practice, not a performance of expertise.
Inner Assembly brings a consistent practitioner cohort together for twelve months. We meet online once each month for approximately 90–100 minutes, alternating between thematic sessions and integration circles.
A thematic session introduces a lens, practice, or inquiry. During the following month, participants notice how it meets their actual client and group work. The integration circle creates space to examine what happened, ask better questions, and refine understanding.
Sessions may include teaching, live demonstration, somatic and relational practice, anonymized case consultation, coaching or facilitation labs, work in pairs, and reflection on practitioner impact.
This is not a passive professional-development course. People participate, experiment, and contribute to one another’s learning. At the same time, nobody is expected to expose a client, violate confidentiality, or share beyond what is responsible.
Between sessions, the practice continues in a private Slack community, through a monthly commitment to apply the work in real client or group settings, and in regular office hours. Participants receive module workbooks, a community resource library, client-portal exercises, recorded centering practices, playlists, and additional supporting material.
Six arcs across the year
The same foundations, applied to the craft of human development.
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Leadership begins in the body
Deepen your ability to notice embodied information in yourself, a client, and the relationship between you. Work with sensation, breath, pace, posture, and activation while maintaining consent, choice, and appropriate scope.
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Capacity before strategy
Recognize when a person or group lacks the capacity to use the insight, plan, or challenge being offered. Explore pacing, readiness, and the practitioner’s temptation to push for movement before the system can hold it.
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Emotional debt
Study how avoided conflict, unspoken impact, broken agreements, and accumulated resentment appear in people, teams, and groups. Practice helping what has gone underground move toward acknowledgment and responsibility.
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Nervous systems in relationship
Develop greater awareness of co-regulation, activation, shutdown, emotional contagion, and the effect of your own state on the work. Stay connected without absorbing responsibility for another person’s experience.
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Working with emergence
Follow what is alive without abandoning structure or purpose. Practice discerning when the work needs space, when it needs direction, and when your own desire for resolution is driving the intervention.
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Relational intimacy and repair
Work more directly with truth, trust, feedback, rupture, and repair. Examine how the practitioner-client relationship becomes part of the work and practice naming impact without making the moment about yourself.
Why this room exists
A note from Franzi
The longer I work with coaches and facilitators, the less interested I am in how many models a person can name. What matters is what happens when a client goes quiet, a group resists, an intervention misses, or your own need to be useful enters the room.
I created this cohort because accomplished practitioners need somewhere they can examine those moments without performing mastery. You can bring the session you are still replaying, the case in which every obvious move feels wrong, or the subtle reaction in your own body that you do not yet understand.
We will study the Inner Assembly curriculum from the inside—not as another set of techniques to apply to someone else. You will experience the work yourself, notice how your own patterns shape your timing and attention, and learn from peers whose training allows them to see what you might miss.
My hope is that you leave with greater precision, stronger ethical discernment, and more freedom to meet the person or group in front of you rather than reaching too quickly for the intervention you already know.
If that is the kind of room you have been looking for, I hope you will experience it for yourself.
Franzi
Held with depth, care, and lived experience
Inner Assembly was created by Franziska Gonder and is held with Camilla Ricoveri, Ted Gonder, and Chris Scott. Franzi, Camilla, and Ted are the co-founders of Unreasonably Human. Chris is an executive coach, co-facilitator, and advisor to Inner Assembly.
Franziska Gonder
Creator and lead facilitator
Franzi works with founders, executives, and leadership teams carrying consequential responsibility. Her approach brings together neuroscience, somatic practice, trauma-informed leadership, relational work, and deep respect for the intelligence already present in each person.
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Franziska Gonder is the creator of Inner Assembly and a co-founder of Unreasonably Human. She works with founders, executives, and leadership teams who carry a great deal of responsibility and want to meet it without losing contact with themselves or the people around them. Her approach brings together neuroscience, somatic practice, trauma-informed leadership, relational work, and a deep respect for the intelligence already present in each person. Franzi has worked with senior leaders from Fortune 100 companies, major technology and AI organizations, the World Bank, the University of Chicago, high-growth startups, and mission-driven institutions. She is known for naming what is happening clearly, making room for what is difficult, and holding people to the truth of what they say matters.
Camilla Ricoveri
Leadership advisor and somatic coach
Camilla brings more than a decade of experience across startups and venture capital, including advising leaders working in conflict-affected environments. She joins strategic understanding with close attention to the body, relationship, and context.
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Camilla Ricoveri brings more than a decade of experience across startups and venture capital to her work with leaders. She has advised leaders working in conflict zones around the world, including Ukraine and Chad, where decisions are made amid profound uncertainty and real human consequence. As a somatic coach, Camilla helps people notice what pressure is doing beneath the surface and find a steadier, more honest way to respond. Her work joins strategic understanding with close attention to the body, relationship, and the realities of the environment a leader is operating within.
Ted Gonder
Founder, operator, and leadership advisor
Ted has built and led organizations through growth, change, and acquisition. His work centers on responsible power, institution building, and the human development required to lead well.
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Ted Gonder builds institutions and communities that develop people and make society better. He co-founded Moneythink as a teenager and led it for a decade, served as an Entrepreneur-in-Residence at the White House, and later helped scale Getro from roughly 50 to more than 1,000 customers. Both Moneythink and Getro were subsequently acquired. Today, Ted works with founders and senior leaders navigating high-stakes seasons and is the co-founder of Atlas Forum, a private community for men seeking to lead, build, and live with greater honesty. His work centers on responsible power, institution building, and the human development required to lead well.
Chris Scott
Executive coach and Inner Assembly advisor
Chris brings two decades of senior leadership experience in complex organizations and five years as an executive coach. As an advisor and co-facilitator for Inner Assembly, he helps people recognize what pressure is activating and respond with greater choice.
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Chris Scott is an executive coach who helps leaders move toward what they want by understanding what may be getting in the way. For more than twenty years, he has partnered with senior executives to pause, notice what is happening beneath the surface, and make sense of their next move. He brings a distinctive perspective shaped by five years as a coach and two decades as a senior leader in workforce intelligence, where he helped executives navigate complex organizational and human questions. Chris’s work draws on somatic awareness, developmental psychology, and nervous-system regulation to help leaders recognize the conditioned habits shaping their choices and respond with greater intention. As an advisor and co-facilitator for Inner Assembly, he helps hold a rigorous peer room in which people can see themselves and their situation more clearly.
The Practitioners cohort
- Dates
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February 2027–February 2028
- Cohort
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Up to 12 experienced practitioners
- Live rhythm
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One 90–100 minute online session each month, alternating between thematic sessions and integration circles
- Between sessions
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A private Slack community; a monthly real-life practice commitment; regular office hours; module workbooks; client-portal exercises; recorded centering practices; playlists; and a growing resource library
- Dates and time
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The recurring day and time will be finalized with the cohort before enrollment is confirmed.
- Investment
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$4,000 for the year. Payment plans are available. Some participants use an employer learning or professional-development budget; we can provide an invoice or supporting program information on request. Self-employed participants should ask their own tax adviser whether the investment may qualify as a business expense in their jurisdiction.
- Attendance and missed sessions
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Participants are expected to attend at least 90% of live sessions. Sessions are recorded and shared only within the cohort. If someone misses a session, they may watch the recording, bring questions to office hours, and reconnect with peers between sessions.
- Annual commitment
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Enrollment is a 12-month financial commitment. A payment plan divides the investment into installments; it does not create a month-to-month cancellation option. If a participant withdraws, the remaining balance is still due unless exceptional circumstances are reviewed and agreed in writing.
- After the year
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Participants join the alumni community and retain access to the community platform.
- Application deadline
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Fit conversations close December 18, 2026.
FAQ
Is this a certification program?
Participants who complete the year-long program receive an Inner Assembly certificate of completion. This recognizes participation in the year-long practice; it is not a coaching credential, professional license, or authorization to practice outside your existing scope.
How experienced do I need to be?
This is a room for established practitioners who already work with clients, leaders, teams, or groups and can bring real practice situations into the cohort. We look for maturity, ethical judgment, respect for confidentiality, openness to feedback, and the ability to contribute to accomplished peers—not one particular credential or an arbitrary number of coaching hours.
Do I need somatic training?
No. Practitioners from different schools and modalities are welcome. Somatic concepts and practices will be introduced with attention to consent, scope, and responsible application.
Is this group supervision?
It includes reflective practice, anonymized case consultation, and feedback from experienced peers and facilitators. It is not clinical supervision and does not replace supervision required by a licensing, credentialing, or professional body.
Are therapists and clinicians welcome?
Yes, when the cohort fits the work they are doing and they remain within the scope, ethical standards, and legal requirements of their own profession. The fit conversation helps both sides determine whether this is the right room.
Will we discuss real clients and cases?
Yes, with appropriate care for confidentiality. Participants must remove names, organizations, locations, distinctive roles, and other identifying details; share only what is needed for the learning; and follow any stricter requirements of their profession, credentials, employer, and client agreements.
What happens if I miss a session?
You can watch the cohort recording, bring questions to office hours, and reconnect with other members between sessions. The expectation remains that participants attend at least 90% of the live sessions.
What does the annual commitment mean?
Enrollment is a 12-month financial commitment. A payment plan divides the investment into installments; it does not create a month-to-month cancellation option. If you withdraw, the remaining balance is still due unless exceptional circumstances are reviewed and agreed in writing.
What if I am both a practitioner and a leader?
You may be a plausible fit for either cohort. The fit conversation will help determine which peer room, examples, and casework will be most useful for the year ahead.
Experience the room
Bring your practice into a room that can meet it.
A Salon is a live, one-hour introduction to the questions, practices, and quality of conversation that shape Inner Assembly. You will leave with something useful whether or not you ultimately join the cohort.