Most practitioners are taught tools. Not transformation.
Where boundaries, identity, and transformation meet.
Root Work begins in August. Registration is open now — one spot remains at the special rate. Cap: 15 people. → randibuckley.com/rootwork
I’ve written this to you five or six times in my head. A few more if you count the ones in the shower. 😊🚿
There’s something strange about holding something that means the world to you, and knowing it might just be Tuesday for someone else. How do you put all the pieces that came before into words, and let someone see what it looks like going forward?
Do you tell the story? Or do you just say it?
I’m going to try both.
Root Work: Boundaries & People-Pleasing
Practitioner Training & Licensed Methodology · The Buckley Method
Most practitioners are taught tools.
Far fewer are taught transformation.
We learn models. Questions. Frameworks. Techniques. But very little time is spent understanding what is actually happening underneath lasting change. Why one intervention lands and another doesn’t. Why some clients make profound shifts while others stay stuck despite everyone’s best efforts.
That question has followed me for years.
And it’s what Root Work is designed to answer.
Root Work is a practitioner training for coaches, therapists, HR professionals, and other helping practitioners who want a deeper understanding of identity, boundaries, people-pleasing, and how meaningful change actually happens.
A few months into my graduate program, I was giddy with the learning. Freakin’ giddy. It was lush and completely in my wheelhouse.
And then it hit me:
What am I going to do with this?
I came in with more than fifteen years of coaching practice and thirty years of teaching—not the standard kind, but the kind that transforms and actually sticks. And so the question became:
What can this be in service of?
Here’s where I have to be honest. My first answer was avoidance.
Because I made something up. It sounded good. I almost believed it.
But underneath, that thing I kept seeing in the coaching world wouldn’t leave me alone.
Well-intentioned practitioners reaching for whatever tools were trending. Trying to create transformation without understanding how transformation actually works.
A map without a geological survey.
Methods without conditions.
Interventions without developmental understanding.
And often, disappointment.
Then came the crystallization.
Among my examiners’ comments after years of research:
“Among the best coaches and coach educators we have encountered.”
Coach educator.
Oh.
I’m a teacher. (If the 30+ years in experiential education weren’t enough.)
And this is what I’ve been teaching toward.
Root Work braids together three strands:
1. Original doctoral research into boundary development
Including the only peer-reviewed academic research on boundary development and the new theories emerging from it.
2. Fifteen years of field-tested practice
More than 1,000 students and clients. What works. What doesn’t. And why.
3. A systems-level understanding of how people actually change
Identity development. Psychology. Relational systems. The conditions that make transformation possible.
Together, they create a methodology practitioners can immediately use with clients—while understanding why it works.
Not scripts.
Not hacks.
Not a collection of techniques.
A way of seeing.
Registration is open · Root Work begins in August · Enrollment capped at 15
One spot remains at the special rate (I mentioned it to my coaching community this morning and the first four spots where gone in minutes). After that, enrollment moves to Founding Cohort pricing.
This founding cohort is being offered at the lowest price Root Work will ever carry. Applications for ICF CCE and EMCC CPD accreditation are already in process.
Learn more and register → randibuckley.com/rootwork
If you’re craving depth, psychological rigor, and a genuine understanding of what’s happening underneath any coaching intervention, this is for you.
Root Work is the first cohort in what is becoming The Buckley Method.
More chapters are coming.
But we start here.
At the root.
With gratitude,
Randi
