What we can’t feel or see we can’t change. Blindspot Coaching reveals the places where your awareness is obstructed in order to allow you to transform hidden beliefs, patterns and habits that unconsciously control your life and no longer serve you. Then you can create sustainable change in any part of your life, while discovering and weaving the foundation for what you truly desire.
actualize your goals, realize your dreams, & grow in every part of your life
disrupt habitual patterns and limiting beliefs, move beyond survival & find harmony in receiving and giving
live purposefully, trust yourself, and depend on the support of others, in order to free yourself to grow, love, and be more for you, your loved ones and your community
raising children with full emotional range, strategies for navigating challenging behaviors and dynamics, parents modeling the values they want to instill in their children while having exquisite care for themselves.
find the harmony between structure/boundaries and connection/nurturing with your children, learn from your children as well as teach them & nurture your relationship to yourself, to your partner (+ other support) and to each of your children, creating resilience in the family nervous system
confident and empathetic children & resourced and supported parents giving from their overflow, creating strong foundations prepared for anything the future brings
build a business structure that honors values and strategies for larger social change, create sustainable practices, underestimated communities building intergenerational wealth & honoring individual care with community care
cultivate accountability to oneself and to one another, discover and value your unique gifts and where you need to delegate to utilize the gifts of others, learn how best to truly collaborate especially in dedication and actions to shift oppressive systems & increase your financial flow so you can share the wealth and change wealth distribution
generate unlimited potential by establishing radical inclusivity (including all parts of yourself and including all parts/identities of others), creative adaptation and innovative solutions that grow your success and lift your community simultaneously & build health and wealth for everyone
Kat attained a Masters in Clinical Social Work in 2012 through Smith College with a focus on intergenerational, complex trauma.
Kat has used her training in group facilitation and optimization by Matrixworks in 2006 to create many family and community programs that focus on individual and community healing through groups as well as to support businesses in restructuring their teams to optimize care for workers and our environment through innovation.
For 20 years as a coach Kat has used her experiences and education to develop proven methods to:
expose blindspots
change destructive and disruptive habits
develop new pathways allowing for individuals, families, non-profit teams and social entrepreneurs to make what once seemed impossible, possible
For over 20 years, she has developed a deep understanding of complex inter-generational trauma and how a belief in oneself, support from others and access to resources allows for pathways to a life beyond survival, with specific work in the following groups:
families, including children 0-5 years old and young adults
foster youth
survivors of sexual exploitation and sexual assault
people with disabilities
immigrants
LGBTQIA+
For over 15 years, Kat has teamed up with other climbers to develop OVER 150 FIRST ASCENTS (equipping new outdoor rock climbs), rumored to be the woman with the most established climbs in Indian Creek, Utah
In 2015, Kat CO-FOUNDED the non-profit organization, the Hatch Community, Oakland, CA
Hatch disrupts cycles of poverty and nurtures parent-child relationships; transforming generations through economic opportunity, birth and parenting education and a community of support for and by young parents. In under 5 years: hatch trained 122 peer-parent coaches, who served over 270 young families, and provided support, education, outreach and trainings to over 500 more young people and professionals in Oakland, California.
Since 2003, Kat also CO-FOUNDED many social impact training and mentoring programs across the US and South America:
the largest volunteer mentoring/tutoring program for foster youth in Colorado, creating the Hope Program.
the first weekly reproductive health program and reproductive health curriculum in Quito, Ecuador, with the approval of Ecuadorian nuns at Centro de la Niña Trabajadora.
the first Spanish Sexual Assault Hotline in Colorado with Moving to End Sexual Assault.
the first transitional living program for current and former foster youth in Boulder County, CO, the second in Colorado, Sage Community Partnership.
“Parents in need of perspective and support, kids grappling with changes in their bodies, families or social environments, individuals learning to set boundaries and prioritize self-love and joy, leaders learning how to create more coherent containers.
If Kat is in your corner, growth is guaranteed. She provides immediate, actionable tools and is masterful at helping you plant seeds that create sustainable and radical transformation. I am more self-aware, others-aware, and so much kinder to myself. She’s not afraid to push you and is there to remind you how to play and prioritize pleasure, especially with what’s hard.”
“KAT ROCKED MY WORLD!! Working with Kat has been one of the most beautiful, transformational experiences of my life. I have never been so held, seen and understood by another. With deep, loving support and insight, Kat gently pushes me to my edges and reveals my blindspots to me. She invites me in the safest of ways to explore the next level, and then the next. She has opened up my perspective on living here on earth and what exists beyond. With her guidance, I have been watching myself slowly embody a different way of being, as I build my own sense of empowerment and sovereignty. These shifts have been profound and life changing. Kat embodies magic and wisdom, and I feel so incredibly blessed to know her and to learn from her. ”
“My life has done a complete 180 since working with Kat to the point where the word “transformational” to describe her work feels massively inadequate. In my 10+ years of working with countless therapists and coaches, I’ve never experienced anyone with more of a giant heart and deep integrity and groundedness and embodiment and awareness and BRILLIANCE.”
“I feel so much more confident and able to be myself in the world, which gave me the courage to create my own business and to finally fall in love.”
“Kat held the complexity of our family system with grace and accountability. I learned how to take care of myself with Kat, so I could give more fully to my family. I will always be so grateful for her and the tools she gave me.”
“After working with Kat, we are such a great [non-profit] team, working
together like never before. I feel like we’ve gotten to know each other better and have really found a groove. All of our talents are finding a place to be utilized, and to be expanded upon. It just shows me even more what a tremendous influence Kat’s support had on us (the inner and outer work and the change that happens). I just love it all!”
She used climbing to help teach her nervous system to move beyond survival. And, now she wants everyone to be able to live with more nervous system agility.
Inner thought…please don’t slip and hit the ground, while you are blindly placing protection and only just starting!
Inner thought…just a little further. Two inches up, then sliding one inch back down. Moving one inch at a time.
Inner thought…you’re almost there. Don’t mess up now. Wait, I mean….YOU GOT THIS.
“I “spotted” Kat Whipple as she set out to establish an unclimbed route in Indian Creek, Utah. What happened next turned out to be easily one of the top three most metal acts of rock climbing I’ve ever seen. Leaving the flake, Whip committed to an absolute horror fall. Zero, zero options for failure or retreat. I heard deep psychological pep talks to the higher mind and the basement dwelling animal. There were tears in my eyes as I watched a true death battle: a mix of brutal scrap-fight wrapped up in a mastery of technique. It was a moment of mastery. At one point I thought to myself, “she doesn’t realize how hard she’s climbing right now...” She was just going. Unstoppable. No option to fail. I’ve never, ever seen anything like it. It was art, and death, and life... mixed up before our eyes in a form of climbing I won’t claim to fully grasp. It was like magic. Scary, scary magic. Necromancy.”
Why Blindspots?
I have been excavating blindspots for 20 years. The texture of them inside of me. The fuzziness. The reaction to defend something before you even know what it is. While I’ve been excavating them in myself, I’ve also been curious about the blindspots others don’t want to acknowledge or see in themselves. I can’t help but shine a light on them, and as a result, I often see what others can’t or don’t want to see, but need to.
Blindspots are like fingerprints on a window. They’re only visible when the light is at just the right angle. A glimpse of the shadow of something that was feared, uncomfortable, or incongruent that got stuck somewhere and only sometimes visible.
Blindspots reveal the parts of us that we’ve excluded or learned to exclude. They are the debris of polarity. Good or bad. Right or wrong. Dark or light. Worthy or unworthy. Powerful or Weak. Love or Fear. Self-love or Guilt.
When you are in integrity you are curious about your blindspots. When you are outside of integrity you are controlled by your blindspots through stubbornness, reactivity, learned ignorance and blame.
Have you ever tried to use your brain to write or work while someone is using a leaf blower outside of your window? If you’re feeling joyful, hopeful and in flow with the universe, you may be able to laugh it off. If you have any agitation lingering inside of you, it will slowly or immediately reveal something, possibly your anger, fear or helplessness.
People’s blindspots are like wind blowers to other people who don’t have the same blind spots; a constant irritation that is nearly impossible to avoid. If you try to address it, they stick their ears closer to the leaf blower, unite with it, and possibly deem you unhinged or reactive.
This is what white people do with racism. People of color can do with internalized white supremacy. Straight people do with homophobia. Gay people can do with internalized heteronormativity. Men with women and women with men. And gender conforming people do with non-gender conforming people. Did I lose you? Piss you off? Are you defending yourself? Or are you arguing you are beyond such polarities? We all have blindspots, and they are running into others constantly, causing small hurts or aggravations we are as blind to as the blindspot in a rearview mirror.
We live in a world and a cultural soup that is influenced by how we’ve been steeped in polarities throughout our lives. We have to be endlessly curious and dedicated to consciously paying attention to the nuances of our actions, interactions, feelings and emotions. In doing so, hopefully we’re able to bring our awareness to the blindspots that have been soaked into our skin, muscles, organs and bones.
Blindspots are more than isms -sexism, racism, heterosexism, ageism, ableism, ethnocentrism and all isms. They are also the parts of us we’ve learned to not accept or that we deny, and these blindspots cause us to also reject or deny parts of others. They are the fragments causing disconnection and pain.
In this endless curiosity, we each create a deeper connection with our body, our emotions, our habits, our patterns and our beliefs revealing what is also unconsciously controlling and sabotaging us so it can be changed. This opportunity for change is where freedom lies; no longer blindly participating in harm to ourself and others, allowing us all to connect.
Cost: $25-$50 your choice. (Every 11th inquiry gets the date for free!)
