Peer Pressure: Fall 2021

✨ Get a buddy and make some progress, together✨

Introducing Peer Pressure, an 8-week peer coaching program that helps you manage the overwhelm and feel less alone through the power of peer coaching.

You're ready for a change.

It’s ok that you don’t really know where to begin, and we know you may be feeling alone in this place of uncertainty. Feeling overwhelmed can lead us to accept the status quo, where we know the next chapter of our lives is waiting to be written but we can’t seem to figure it out––we get frustrated, unmotivated and grow stagnant. We accept our current reality as-is.

There's a way forward.

One that gives you the tools and the time to get some clarity and make a change. To take some action steps toward your best future self. And you’re not doing it alone––there’s a buddy waiting for you who’s in the same boat. You can help each other get to your next level.

🍓 Imagine being able to know what’s standing in your way, and move past it.

🍓 Imagine being able to design goals that are truly what you want to do, not what you think you should do.

🍓 Imagine having a trusted confidant that helps you find your way and holds you accountable.

Welcome to Peer Pressure.

Peer Pressure is an 8-week program that helps you realize your potential with the support of an accountability buddy.

We use an accessible peer coaching framework where you gain the benefits of coaching while building meaningful relationships, all at a fraction of the cost of traditional coaching. 

Our curriculum guidebook, inquiry-based process and the support of the cohort all help you make sense of it all.

How it works.

Fill out the intake questionnaire
After applying to the program, answer a multi-question form that gives us insight on who you are, what challenges you're facing, your industry and years of experience, and more. We use this questionnaire to match you with an accountability partner.

Get matched with an accountability partner
We expertly pair you with an accountability partner, a peer who is at your level and has a similar mission.

1:1 weekly partner meetings
You’ll meet weekly with your accountability partner for 1-hr guided conversations using our curriculum workbook and meeting agendas.

You and your partner will help each other through your personal or professional hurdles, gain clarity and hold each other accountable to take real action.

Curriculum workbook & meeting agendas
Use our science- and data-backed curriculum and workbook in your weekly partner meetings, filled with powerful prompts based on coaching strategies that support personal discovery and build self-awareness. It's a roadmap to determine what’s not working for you and what steps you can take to live the life you want to lead.

We also supply simple agendas to take the guesswork out of your meetings.

The inquiry-based process
Deep inquiry is a foundational process to the peer coaching framework. We model it for you during our kickoff event and you use it for your 1:1 meetings. It involves focused listening, purposeful feedback, maintaining a sense of curiosity and safely challenging each other by asking open and honest questions.

"The guidance of deep inquiry is something I will continue to practice for many years."

- Rachel Beetz (spring '21 cohort)

Our curriculum

A multi-part journey filled with powerful prompts that you explore with your partner every week.

You'll use the curriculum to determine what matters to you, identify what’s standing in your way of progress, gain clarity on your priorities and insight on what’s now possible, design action steps to take that will help you level up, and maintain momentum to ensure success, together.

Week 1: The Kickoff Event

Join your newly matched partner and the rest of your cohort to get a lay of the land and start dreaming about what matters to you

Week 2: The Purpose

Understanding more about your areas of action and satisfaction, and your core strengths and drivers

Week 3: The Problem

Gaining clarity on what's not working well in your life and what you want to change

Week 4: The Goals Event

Start to see the future differently, realize ideal outcomes and identify new goals

Week 5: The Actions

What exactly will you do, and when will you do it?

Week 6: The Commitment

Maintaining a sense of urgency to your goals

Week 7: The Momentum

Encouragement, accomplishments and learnings

Week 8: The Wrap Event

Celebrating your breakthroughs

The power of a partner.

Accountability matters
You might be thinking--wait, I can do this on my own, just give me the curriculum and I’m golden. But we’re here to tell you that the power of accountability is real. Chances are you will reach your goals when you work alongside a partner: a study on accountability found that anyone has a 65% chance of completing a goal simply by telling someone about it. But if they have a specific appointment with a person they're accountable to (like a peer coach), they increase their chance of success by up to 95%.

It changes your brain chemistry
Did you know that positive, vulnerable and consistent connection delivers more oxytocin to our brain and helps fuel our appetite for hope and desire, which in turn helps us stay more open-minded to new ideas and perspectives? Peer coaching can literally change your brain chemistry for the better, and we help you do it. 

The support of the cohort.

You not only have your accountability partner on your side, but a whole cohort of folks ready and willing to champion you.

Group events
We add group events to the program to help you practice deep inquiry skills as well as work through some of the pivotal parts of the curriculum together in a supportive group setting.

Coffee chats to expand your network
Get access to the cohort directory to set up coffee chats with other interesting folks in your program cohort.

Add on some individual coaching
And, if you really want to advance your progress and tap deeply into your inner wisdom, participants can add on 2 x 30-minute coaching sessions with the founder of Peer Pressure, Tracy Candido, who is continuing their coach training at the Co-Active Training Institute.

You can do this.

For folks that have been ready to make a change for a while but just haven’t been able to figure it all out on their own, Peer Pressure’s got your back. We support the whole person, because work and life should be in balance with each other.

We have your back when:

• You're managing the transition of going back to work after becoming a parent
• You're promoted to a manager role
• Your company is growing
• You have issues with your health
• You want to start a company
• You need to leave a toxic job
• You know there's a more exciting career out there
• You're hustling on a side project
• You need support in a changing workforce

"The Peer Pressure program helped me frame the problems I'm facing within a trustworthy support network which made each challenge manageable."

- Grace Halvorson (spring '21 cohort)

👋 Want to participate? Here's what you're going to get:

• 8 weeks of supported growth
• A new accountability partner
• 1:1 meetings with with your partner
• Curriculum workbook that can be used again and again
• Meeting agendas
• Core strengths and drivers assessment
• 3 x facilitated, 1-hour virtual group events
  
• Support of the cohort and networking opportunities
• Optional 1:1 coaching with Tracy
  
• A plan for a path forward

What you'll learn:

• How to make sense of your priorities to get unstuck

• Understand your strengths and core drivers to employ them more in your life 

• The real challenges you're facing and why

• Peer coaching strategies that will help you at work and in your relationships

• How to arrive at goals that are actually achievable

• How to take action on your new goals

• How to stay accountable to your goals
  
  

📆 Schedule

Dates: Sept 17-Nov 5, 2021
Group events:

Fridays, 12pm ET––Sept 17, Oct 8, Nov 5

Cost 

Ready to take steps to change your life and develop a meaningful relationship with a trusted confidant?

Apply to join Peer Pressure for $349 now––prices go up to $399 on July 5.

Get a $50 discount when you bring a friend (discount applies to both of you!)

About the founder & host:

Hi! I'm Tracy. I'm an ENFP, I love sci-fi, and I live with my wife and two small kids in Brooklyn, NY.

I have nearly twenty years of experience designing strategic programs for community engagement, and I've designed and facilitated hundreds of workshops and programs with brands like Warby Parker, Spotify, Airbnb, and Girl Scouts.

I'm the founder of Peer Pressure, a suite of peer coaching programs and products to help folks make progress, together. I'm continuing to work on my coach training at the Co-Active Training Institute. I've also participated in many group coaching, peer-led or cohort-based learning experiences over the years, so I know a lot about collaboration, active listening, asking honest questions, and giving/receiving feedback.

Experience the magical transformation of peer coaching. You'll thank us!

P.S.

Is cost an issue? Don't hesitate to reach out about scholarships or questions: send an email.