September 4, 2025 - November 13, 2025
Thursdays | 5-7pm, pacific time
online via zoom
Course Description
Building up colleagues and raising the bar for future generations of interpreters is important work. There are a multitude of ways to do this work, teaching, mentoring, teaming, and now, coaching. Coaching is distinct from mentoring in that it focuses on the self-directed development of the client, not necessarily on you passing along all the information & wisdom you have gleaned in your years of experience, though those experiences will come in handy as a coach. In this workshop, you will develop a coaching style all your own using tools, strategies, and approaches from the coaching profession. Specifically, we will delve into coaching with a mentoring mindset, exploring the why, what and hows of coaching interpreters as a part of their induction into the field. Coaching serves a distinct purpose from mentoring, and yet our mentoring experience can support our coaching work. It takes intentional practice, just like interpreting to develop distinct coaching and mentoring skills for various audiences.s. Through coaching you will bring an additional layer of tools, reframes, and mindsets that will help you to be present with colleagues in their process and walk with them through the journey of development.
Included in the Course
- Course Shell & content
- Workbook
- Zoom Sessions to practice
- 1 individual coaching session
- Marco Polo or Voxer access to Amanda throughout the course
- CEUs (see below)
- Community for discussion & integration
Who
Practicing and/or aspiring mentors and coaches who work with interpreters.
Outcomes
Upon completion of this workshop, participants will be able to:
- Articulate the guiding principles & ethics of coaching vs. mentoring.
- Articulate the “Why” behind their coaching style using a values-based framework
- Facilitate discussions of work analysis with colleagues, guiding them via powerful questions, curiosities, reflective listening, and distillation of root behaviors/habits. (ICF Competency C. 6 & 7)
- Collect, analyze, and report on data driven interpreting work analysis (ICF Competency C. 8)
Example Curriculum
- Resource Hub
- Sept 4 | Welcome & Orientation
- Sept 11 | Coaching vs. Mentoring (1:31)
- Sept 18 | Setting Agenda & Coaching Presence
- Sept 25 | Powerful Questions
- Oct 2 | Powerful Questions & Anatomy of a Coaching Session
- Oct 9 | Values & Trust
- Oct 16 | Coaching Tools: Repetitive Play
- Oct 23 | Coaching Tools: States of Being
- Oct 30 | Coaching Tools:
- Nov 6 | Coaching Tools:
- Nov 13 | Reflect & Integrate
CEUs pending to account for:
- individual homework & study
- synchronous sessions via zoom
- individual coaching session
Meet the Instructor
Amanda R. Smith is a nationally certified interpreter, educator, and coach dedicated to advancing the field of interpreting and interpreter education. With a master’s in Interpreter Pedagogy and nearly two decades of teaching at Western Oregon University, she has shaped future interpreters and educators with insight, rigor, and compassion. Amanda draws from professional experience, creative practices, and somatic coaching to foster reflective, ethical, and effective interpreting. Through A.R. Smith Studios, she supports interpreter educators, coaches and mentors in refining their craft and cultivating professional presence. Amanda’s work bridges teaching, interpreting, and personal growth, inviting transformation grounded in presence, purpose, and community connection.
Fine Print
*Accommodation requests can be made by emailing [email protected]
** Refunds within 30 days of purchase will be considered on a case by case basis. Refund requests can be made by emailing [email protected]
*ARSmith Studios, LLC promotes a learning and growing environment that is characterized by mutual respect, curiosity, and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, creed, religion, sex, age, national origin, disability, veteran status, sexual orientation or any legally protected status.