SIGNATURE TALK
Who Lived Your Life Yesterday? The Power of Seeing for Healing Self-Abandonment.
Most of us move through life shaped by stories, roles, and images of ourselves we never consciously chose.
We don't notice. This talk wakes you up. Not with theory. With the most immediate instrument available: your own face. A single photograph can do what years of reflection cannot. It creates distance between who you've been performing — and who is actually here.
That gap is where everything changes.
Topics
Intro to the DareMethod
A foundational introduction to the practice of self-portraiture as a tool for self-witnessing, identity exploration, and healing self-abandonment.
Feeling Seen: Photography in Coaching on Self-Image
For coaching professionals and practitioners — how self-portraiture functions as a dual-attention instrument and what that means for the future of the field.
Relaxing Into Your Greatness: Self-Image, Selfie, and Change
On the relationship between how we see ourselves and what we allow ourselves to become — and the surprisingly simple practice that bridges the two.
Self-Image in Change Management
For organizations navigating transformation — why the inner image of self is the invisible variable in every change initiative, and what to do about it.
Recent Engagements
ICF Converge 2025
ICF Wisconsin 2025
Women in Tech, Washington DC 2024
ICF Midwest Coaches Conference 2024
ACMP GlobalConnect 2024
ICF Converge 2023
New York Film Academy
What Audiences Say
"Love presenter's passion for the topic. Many attendees mentioned this was their favorite session."
— ICF Converge 2023"Loving this. Dasha's perspectives are so compelling as we connect with our roles in helping organizations transform."
— ACMP GlobalConnect 2024"This talk transformed me."
— ICF Converge 2025Interviews
The Camera and The Coach
Intuitive Life Coaching Academy of Transformation and Excellence A conversation on the DareMethod, the role of the image in coaching, and the moment a photograph changes everything.
From International Student to Visionary Life Coach
Clever Magazine On self-liberation, the origin of the DareMethod, and what it took to stop deferring to other people's frameworks.
Podcasts
Beyond the Image: Seeing Ourselves with New Eyes
Limitless Podcast with Deanna Herrin "You are never the image — you are what's beyond it." A conversation on self-image, photography, and consciousness.
The Way We 'See' Ourselves Can Unlock Our Greatest Potential
Episode 231 On the power of self-perception, the DareMethod, and what becomes possible when we truly look at ourselves.
Ready to bring this to your audience?
If you're a conference organizer, podcast host, or event curator and you feel this work belongs in the room you're building — get in touch.
Short Bio
Dasha Dare is the founder of Time2Dare and creator of the DareMethod — a methodology that uses self-portraiture as an instrument for self-witnessing and healing self-abandonment. She is an ICF PCC certified coach, portrait photographer, and speaker, and is completing a Master of Science in Psychological and Brain Sciences at George Washington University, where her research focuses on the neuroscience of self-face recognition. She speaks and writes on what becomes possible when we stop abandoning ourselves and start relaxing into our greatness.
Long Bio
Dasha Dare is the founder of Time2Dare and creator of the DareMethod — a science-informed methodology at the intersection of neuroscience, coaching, and identity transformation, using self-portraiture as a tool for self-witnessing and healing self-abandonment. An ICF PCC certified coach, portrait photographer, researcher, and speaker, she is completing a Master of Science in Psychological and Brain Sciences at George Washington University, with research interests in the neuroscience of self-face recognition. She is a member of the International Coaching Federation and the American Psychological Association, and serves as an Ambassador for the Inner Development Goals (IDG). A sought-after speaker at ICF Converge, ACMP GlobalConnect, and Women in Tech, she brings a rare combination of embodied practice and academic rigor to the question of how human beings truly change. Her forthcoming book, Who Lived Your Life Yesterday?, explores the path from self-abandonment to relaxing into your greatness.
Articles
The Art of Capturing the Unseen Light
Coaching Perspectives Magazine, Association for Coaching — Issue 42 On the intersection of photography, presence, and the coaching relationship — and what the camera reveals that words cannot.
The Power of Photography in Coaching
ICF Coaching World — International Coaching Federation On how self-portraits function as a dual-attention instrument, and what that means for the future of professional coaching.
ForthcomingWho Lived Your Life Yesterday?
A book in progress.
Coming soon.