Consciousness, Critical Thinking, and Commitment: Three Strategies for the Mature Use of AI

Walk away with a practical framework for working with AI at a deeper level of maturity and discernment.

It’s easy to get excited about what AI can do.

It’s harder to stay honest about what it’s doing to you — your patterns, your shortcuts, your unexamined defaults.

Most AI training asks: what can you do with this tool? This session turns the focus the other way. How do you need to develop yourself to engage AI with more maturity and discernment?

David Drake, PhD — coaching pioneer, founder of The Moment Institute, and one of Viva la Coaching’s Resident Guardians — brings 25 years at the edges of human development to one of the most important questions in our field right now.

What We Cover

🧭 The Five Maturities — an introduction to David’s forthcoming framework and its role in how we develop as practitioners

🔎 A live working session: you open your AI app of choice (Claude, ChatGPT, whatever you use) and work a real issue from your life or business — while noticing your own patterns of consciousness, critical thinking, and commitment

🛠️ WITS — Working In Third Space — a simple, practical framework you can use as scaffolding whenever you engage with AI as a thinking or production partner

💬 A closing dialogue about what each of us noticed, what shifted, and what comes next

What You Walk Away With

• A clearer read of your own current patterns when working with AI
• The WITS framework as a tool for more mature, discerning engagement
• A handout from David for continued practice after the session
• Recording and 1-month access — so you can revisit and go deeper

Who This Is For

Coaches, supervisors, and learning professionals who are already using AI regularly and want to bring more depth and self-awareness to that practice. Relevant across experience levels — the Five Maturities applies wherever you are in your development.

Format

🔎 Live interactive session · 2 hours · Monday, 14 April · 3–5 pm CEST · Hosted on Zoom · Replay included · 1 month access from purchase

Access & Pricing

🎓 League of Rebels members: included in your membership. Find it in your Insight Labs Collection on the platform.

New to Viva? Join this session for €49 excl. VAT.

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About David Drake, PhD

Coaching pioneer for 25 years. Founder of The Moment Institute — an innovative learning community at the edge of coaching and human development. Creator of Narrative Coaching, Narrative Release, Integrative Development, and The Five Maturities. EMCC Master Practitioner. Thought Leader for the Institute of Coaching. Inaugural member of Coaches50. 10x WBECS Summit speaker.

His work has shaped how coaches think about change, story, and development in organisations including ARM, Dropbox, Google, Nike, PwC, and Westpac — across three continents.

Author of over 80 publications, including Narrative Coaching: The Definitive Guide to Bringing New Stories to Life and the forthcoming Transforming How We Practice in a World Beyond Coaching (May 2026). Co-Editor of the SAGE Handbook of Coaching.

Connect with David on LinkedIn · davidbdrake.com

Want more than a single session?

This Insight Lab is a taste of the practitioner-level work that happens inside the Rebel Course — five modules of live, hands-on AI implementation for your coaching business, practice, and professional growth. 27 ICF CCEUs. Rookie Foundations Course included. 6 months of League of Rebels community access.

The April cohort starts 16 April. 👉 Learn more about the Rebel Course