The xchange Approach

07/22/2026

Our partner, Linda Fisk of LeadHERship Global, shared this on Facebook and we want to make sure our community sees it too.

On August 20th, Jon is leading a free, live 2-hour workshop for Linda's community of retreat leaders, summit hosts, and conference organizers. It's open to any experienced creator who wants a design framework for leading more powerful, transformational events. So if you know someone who fits that description, tag them or forward the link.

👉 Register here: https://www.xchangeapproach.com/LeadHERship2026

Lead the Room Without Owning the Stage: The xchange Approach to Designing Experiences That Build Your Authority
Thursday, August 20th | 8am PT / 10am CT / 11am ET
Free. Live. No replay.

Don't miss the opportunity to join this free 2-hour workshop on August 20th at 8:00 am PT / 10:00 am CT / 11:00 am ET!

Discover how to "Lead the Room Without Owning the Stage: Designing Experiences That Build Your Authority" with Berghoff!

Register for this FREE 2-hour experience here: https://www.xchangeapproach.com/LeadHERship2026

The women of LeadHERship Global are already experienced creators. You run retreats, summits and conferences. You know that what happens in the room matters as much as who is on the agenda. And yet most of us were never handed a framework for designing that experience intentionally. We've been doing it by instinct, finding what works, adjusting as we go.

On Thursday, August 20th, Jon Berghoff is hosting a free, live workshop to change that. Jon is the founder of xchange, a methodology used by over 25,000 facilitators, coaches, and event leaders to design group experiences that build trust, draw out collective wisdom, and create the kind of transformation people become ambassadors for.

In two hours, you'll experience The xchange Approach firsthand, see exactly how it works, and walk away with a design framework you can bring into your very next event. This is a live, interactive session with no replay.

If you lead events, retreats, masterclasses, workshops or communities - this is a must!

07/15/2026

We just welcomed our newest cohort into the xchange Guide Certification Program (GCP).

7 countries represented, from first-time facilitators to seasoned leaders returning for their second, third, even fourth time through.

As always, we didn't start with content or tools.

We started with a question.

Why is becoming a Certified xchange Guide important to you?

Here's a glimpse of what emerged:

"Connection is the cure to so much of what's going on in society today." — Pam R.

"I'm shifting from needing to be the expert to trusting the room. I don't have to know everything." — Declan S.

"Transition and change create stress. This work helps you channel that stress into something greater." — Rahul B.

We were also joined by three Certified xchange Guides who came back to share what they've learned.

"Nothing gets unused in the desert. Don't let anything go unused here. Not the breakout conversations. Not the uncomfortable moments. Not the things that don't go as planned. That's where the real learning lives." — Michael Ian Cedar, President, Legacy of You

"I almost dropped out when my career started shifting in a big way. My intuition said stick with it. What I carried away is so much bigger, richer, and deeper than I could have imagined going in." — Jessica Lewinski, Country Director, 30 Birds Foundation

"Something Jon Berghoff said has stayed with me since my training: there's mastery. And you can start now." — Tarzan Kay, Online Business Strategist

This is what makes GCP more than a certification program.

The people who've walked the path come back and carry the ones just starting.

To our newest cohort, welcome. We're honored to be on this journey with you. 💛

Interested in joining our next cohort?
Drop "GCP" in the comments and we'll send you the details.

06/08/2026

Two days.

June 10th. 2:00–4:00pm ET.

Activating the Change You're Meant to Lead.

A complementary two-hour live experience walking the SPIRAL of Transformation — for the leaders who are ready to stop leading from burnout and old identities and start asking the questions that actually move them forward.

If you've been meaning to register, this is the moment.

Link in the comments.

06/04/2026

Last week we shared something about showing up distracted and what it revealed.

Here's what we've been sitting with since then.

There is a genius inside every leader we know that is waiting to come out.

Most of us just don't give it the space it needs.

We stay stuck in activation. Responding, building, delivering. And we tell ourselves we'll make time for the deeper work when things slow down.

They don't slow down.

On June 10th, xchange is creating that space for you.

Two hours. Live on Zoom. Walking the SPIRAL of Transformation together — six stages of reflection, connection, and guided inquiry designed to help you reconnect with what you actually know about yourself.

Activating the Change You're Meant to Lead. June 10th. 2:00–4:00pm ET. Complementary.

Register in the comments. Bring someone who needs this too.

06/01/2026

A few months ago, Jon was sitting in his car between his daughter Sierra's volleyball games.

Danielle LaPorte’s visioning session was playing on his phone.

She guides people through an inner journey in a way very few teachers can. And what became clear almost immediately was exactly where her work reaches its natural edge and where The xchange Approach picks up.

Her practice is designed to help leaders get honest. About what they're carrying. About what they actually want. About what they're ready to let go of and what they're ready to move toward. It's precise work. It's rare.

Because what happens when that kind of inner clarity meets a structured group experience is something neither can produce alone.ㅤ

The group starts to experience a level of coherence that the good folks at HeartMath have been measuring for years. This is a form of interpersonal neural synchrony. A room designed around that is a different experience than doing it solo.

In the last few months, xchange has been doing exactly this kind of work with some of the most serious thinkers in transformation. Joe Pine. Raj Sisodia, Nilima Bhat, and Benjamin Hardy. Now Danielle.

There's a pattern worth observing.

The most serious thought leaders in personal and organizational transformation are evolving beyond passive information sharing. A talk. A book reading. A webinar. They're moving toward something that lets people experience the ideas, not just receive them.
The old playbook is giving way to something more alive.

On June 3rd, Jon and Danielle are doing this together. Live. Free. Online.

Danielle LaPorte will lead her practice — the actual thing, not a description of it.

Jon Berghoff will wrap her practice with an interactive contemplation and peer learning experience. It will be as alive as an experience happening in a physical room.

Wednesday, June 3rd | 2:30–4:30 pm ET | Free Recordings will not be shared. Your presence is essential.

Register https://vist.ly/567wp
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05/29/2026

We want to share something that happened recently.

One of our team members showed up to lead a group coaching session right after a call that had spiked her nervous system.

The call went fine.

But she wasn't at her peak. She was distracted. Going through the motions.

And what she realized in that moment is something we hear from leaders all the time.

We spend so much time in activation. Moving from one thing to the next. Always something that needs to get done. And somewhere in that busyness, we stop giving ourselves the space to ask the questions that actually matter.

The tough ones. The ones that require us to sit in discomfort long enough to find the truth within.

When we don't make that space, something goes dull.

The work feels less fulfilling. The genius that we know is in there stops showing up. Not because it's gone. Because we haven't given it room.

On June 10th from 2:00–4:00 pm ET, xchange is hosting a complementary live experience called Activating the Change You're Meant to Lead.

Two hours. The SPIRAL of Transformation. Space for the questions that actually matter.

For any leader who knows what we're describing. This one is for you.
Registration link: https://vist.ly/55wmy

05/15/2026

67 new Certified xchange Guides.

6 countries.

104 people gathered to witness what's possible when learning becomes belonging.

Today, we celebrated the most recent cohort of the xchange Guide Certification Program.

These 67 new Guides spent the last several months learning how to design experiences where conversations create safety, where questions unlock what a group already knows, and where people leave more connected than when they arrived.

This movement is building.

We were honored to have Danielle LaPorte, author and speaker whose work has reached over 40 million people worldwide, deliver our commencement address. Her message landed like a permission slip for every person in the room.

She reminded us that the work of holding space is not about pumping yourself up before stepping into a room. It's about doing the inner work first, so that when you arrive, you're already whole.

"What you push away pushes back and grows stronger. What you embrace transforms."

She named the contradictions that every great facilitator learns to hold: raising your standards while releasing your expectations. Owning your impact while staying free from ego. Being present to others while staying anchored in yourself.

Jon Berghoff closed the ceremony with something that stayed with us: "We accidentally discovered something that is needed more every day than it was the day before."

And then Jeremy Reisig, also known as J-Hobbs, brought us to tears and to our feet with a live performance that could only be described as the perfect ending.

To our graduates: this is just the beginning of what you'll do with what you've learned.

To those who joined us as guests: thank you for being willing to witness something real.

And to everyone who believes that the way we gather can change the world: we're just getting started.

Curious about the next Guide Certification Program? Comment below and we'll send you the details.

04/07/2026

Something we noticed while reading Joe Pine's new book that felt worth sharing.

For years, xchange has called its certified practitioners "Guides." We chose that word deliberately. It reflects a belief that the most valuable role in any gathering isn't the person delivering expertise from the front of the room. It's the person designing the conditions for others to learn, connect, and change.

Joe Pine, approaching this from a completely different angle, the economics of how businesses create value, arrived at the same word. In The Transformation Economy, a "guide" is someone who helps others achieve their deepest aspirations and become a new version of themselves. That role, in Joe's framework, sits at the highest level of economic value.

Two very different bodies of work pointing to the same conclusion about where facilitation, coaching, and transformational leadership are heading.

This Thursday, Joe joins us for a free, live conversation about what this convergence means for your work. Whether you facilitate groups, coach clients, lead retreats, or design learning experiences, this is a conversation worth being part of.

Thursday, April 9th | 11am–12:30pm ET | Free

Register here: https://vist.ly/4xjp8

04/06/2026

This Wednesday, we're hosting a free conversation with Sheri Rosenthal about something many retreat leaders carry alone: the business side.

Sheri has been in the retreat space for over 25 years. She's planned more than 1,000 retreats worldwide. And what she's found is that the leaders doing the most meaningful work are often the ones struggling most with pricing, revenue, and sustainability.

One thing she'll share that has stayed with us: most retreat leaders price around their inputs rather than the transformation they deliver. That shift alone can reshape an entire business.

This is an interactive experience, not a lecture. Come with your camera on, your questions ready, and an openness to explore what's possible when the business finally matches the impact.

Wednesday, April 8th | 12:00–1:30 pm ET | Free

Register here: https://vist.ly/4xf9m

04/03/2026

Last week, we shared a piece Joe Pine wrote about xchange on his Substack. If you missed it, Joe is the bestselling coauthor of The Experience Economy, and his new book, The Transformation Economy, names what comes next: transformation as the highest-value stage of business.

In that piece, he described xchange as a pioneer in this space. What he articulated about our four transformations, the way meetings become platforms for change rather than containers for content, was something we've felt for years but hadn't had the economic language to describe.

That's exactly why we're hosting a free, live conversation with Joe on April 9th.

We'll explore:
→ The fundamental shift from experiences to transformation, and why it matters for every facilitator, coach, and conscious leader
→ How to identify your customers' deepest aspirations
→ Practical frameworks for designing offerings that create lasting change
→ How to price based on outcomes, not logistics
→ Real examples from organizations like Noom, Hydrafacial, and London Business School

Thursday, April 9th | 11am–12:30pm ET | Free

Whether you design meetings, lead retreats, coach clients, or build communities, this conversation will give you new language for the value you create.

Register here: https://vist.ly/4x7bw