January 2021
ICFLA Virtual Coaching Cafe Conversations
Topic: Listen! – The Four Listening Villians
Host: Paul Sanbar, Associate Director of Coaching Cafe Conversations
Date: Friday, January 29, 2021
Time: 12:30 PM – 1:30 PM Pacific Time
For one month, our January 29th Cafe topic will shift away from our conversation on Pamela McLean’s book, Self as Coach, Self as Leader. Instead, we will spend the hour diving into a discussion into what we as coaches need to do more than anything else, listen. Join us to review Oscar Trimboli’s Four Villians of Listening and should you feel inclined, collaborate on a MURAL whiteboard to support our journey as thought partners with our clients.
Find out more »February 2021
Business Building SIG: It’s Time To Run Game Film: Effective Coaching Conversations
Topic: It's Time To Run Game Film: Effective Coaching Conversations
Host: Gretchen Hydo, MCC
CCE’s: 1.5 Core Competencies
Date: Tuesday, February 9, 2021
Time: 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM Pacific Time
Have you ever had what you thought was a great enrollment conversation with a potential client only to have them ghost you or not sign up? During this SIG come and learn what keeps clients from following through on their yes. Bring your real live coaching consult scenarios and run a game film with Master Coach, Gretchen Hydo. She will help you review what happened during your enrollment call and what could have gone differently.
Find out more »Teleclass: The 4 Stages of Psychological Safety
Topic: The 4 Stages of Psychological Safety
Host: Timothy R. Clark
CCEs: 1.5 Core Competencies
Date: Thursday, February 11, 2021
Time: 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM Pacific Time
Based on his new book, The 4 Stages of Psychological Safety: Defining the Path to Inclusion and Innovation, Dr. Timothy R. Clark, an Oxford-trained social scientist and global thought leader, will share his breakthrough research on the topic of psychological safety.
Find out more »Executive Coaching SIG
Topic: Executive Coaching SIG
Host: Tom Henschel
CCE’s: 1.0 Core Competencies / 0.5 Resource Development
Date: Friday, February 12, 2021
Time: 9:00 AM – 10:30 AM Pacific Time
A self-directed learning group exploring coaching situations involving a coach, a client, and an employer. Come join our diverse, welcoming community as we kick-off the year with our annual networking and planning extravaganza. We get to know each other as we build the list of topics we want to study for the rest of the year.
Find out more »Teleclass: Build Your Brand, Grow your Business, Make More Impact
Topic: Build Your Brand, Grow your Business, Make More Impact
Host: Shahab Anari
CCEs: 1.0 Resource Development
Date: Tuesday, February 16, 2021
Time: 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM Pacific Time
After 20+ years of trial and error as a business professional in three different countries, Shahab has developed his proprietary Personal Branding methodology to build a brand, get more clients, and make more impact. He will share the exact strategies that modern thought leaders are using to build their business and gain tremendous visibility, credibility, and profitability.
Find out more »Coaching Supervision SIG
Topic: Coaching Supervision in Challenging Times
Host: Dr. Damian Goldvarg, MCC; ESIA
CCE’s: 1.0 Core Competencies / 0.5 Resource Development
Date: Wednesday, February 17, 2021
Time: 12:00 PM – 1:30 PM Pacific Time
In this session, we will explore current political, social, financial, health-related challenges and develop strategies to navigate them, be able to understand the importance of supervision in the coaching practice.
Find out more »Special Multi-Chapter Event: HOW TO TAME YOUR ADVICE MONSTER with Michael Bungay Stanier
Topic: How to Tame Your Advice Monster
Host: Michael Bungay Stanier
CCEs: 1.5 Core Competencies
Date: Thursday, February 18, 2021
Time: 4:30 PM – 6:00 PM Pacific Time
Too often we equate “helpful” with “advice”. Now, there’s an important place for giving advice in a coaching relationship. But it has to be the right advice, offered for the right reasons, at the right time. This session will not only help you refine your presence and impact as a coach, it will give you tools you can teach to your clients.
Find out more »Group and Team Coaching SIG: Leveraging ICF Team Competencies
Topic: Group and Team Coaching SIG: Leveraging ICF Team Competencies
Host: Diana Ideus, MCC
CCE’s: 1.5 Core Competencies
Date: Tuesday, February 23, 2021
Time: 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM Pacific Time
What changes in your coaching agreements and coaching practice when you are working with a team? In our first Group & Team Coaching Special Interest Group for the year, we'll explore the new ICF Team Competencies and how those apply to your practice.
Find out more »Neuroscience SIG: Motivation and Bias: Neuroscience-Based Strategies for Self-Awareness
Topic: Motivation and Bias: Neuroscience-Based Strategies for Self-Awareness
Host: Ellen Cohen, J.D., CPCC, PCC
Speaker: David Ringwood / Tricia Naddaff
CCE’s: 1.0 Core Competencies / 0.5 Resource Development
Date: Friday, February 26, 2021
Time: 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM Pacific Time
Motivations play an important role in how people understand themselves and the world. Everyone operates with assumptions, mindsets and expectations that they are often unconscious of, and which are likely to be influenced by our deeper motivational orientations.
Find out more »ICFLA Virtual Coaching Cafe Conversations
Topic: Visual Collaboration with MURAL
Host: Paul Sanbar, Associate Director of Coaching Cafe Conversations
Date: Friday, February 26th, 2021
Time: 12:30 PM – 1:30 PM Pacific Time
Last year forced us to lean into technology more than ever. Now that we’re leaning in, let’s take the next step together and learn new ways to collaborate and foster possibilities thinking with our clients, groups, and teams using MURAL whiteboards. If powerful coaching allows our clients to pause and reflect on their thoughts, MURAL enables them to see what they’re thinking and imagine new ways to engage with their ideas using visual collaboration.
Find out more »March 2021
Teleclass: Laser-Focused Coaching: Get to the Point!
Topic: Laser-Focused Coaching: Get to the Point!
Host: Marion Franklin, MCC
CCEs: 1.5 Core Competencies
Date: Thursday, March 4, 2021
Time: 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM Pacific Time
Applying Laser-Focused coaching allows you to go deeper rather than broader, thereby staying more focused, maximizing the time, and creating long–lasting change. Become aware of what you are actually listening for in every conversation.
The most powerful coaches move quickly beyond the stories and delve into the themes. Listen to a 15-minute coaching segment demonstrating a theme, the shift, direct communication, silence, and evoking awareness.
Find out more »ICFLA Virtual March Chapter Meeting
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Topic: Coaching towards Equity
Speaker: Rudy Nickens
CCEs: 1.0 Core Competencies / 0.5 Resource Development
Date: Wednesday, March 17, 2021
Time: 4:00 PM – 6:00 PM Pacific Time
Location: Virtual meeting via Zoom.us / Your link to join the conference will be sent after you register.
Understanding Equity makes stronger coaches. Come join Rudy Nickens and ICFLA as we examine together contemporary social issues and how to assist clients to understand their position along a continuum of privileges; lived, granted, or denied. We’ll focus on our own self-awareness as coaches and on seeing the complexity of human diversity.
Find out more »Teleclass: How to Create More Positive Outcomes with Intention and Attitude
Topic: How to Create More Positive Outcomes with Intention and Attitude
Host: Diane Forster
CCEs: 1.0 Core Competencies
Date: Thursday, March 18, 2021
Time: 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM Pacific Time
During this teleclass, Diane will share how to set intentions, what it means to be “outcome-centric”, the M+I=O formula to create positive outcomes, and the role that attitude plays in achieving your personal and professional goals faster.
Find out more »ICFLA Virtual Coaching Cafe Conversations
Topic: What vs. Why Questions: When to ask what and why
Host: Paul Sanbar, Associate Director of Coaching Cafe Conversations
Date: Friday, March 26th, 2021
Time: 12:30 PM – 1:30 PM Pacific Time
Join in for a lively conversation where we pit WHAT versus WHY and challenge our thinking regardless of what (or why) side of the aisle we land.
Find out more »April 2021
Teleclass: Coaching Clients Through Failure
Topic: Coaching Clients Through Failure
Host: Sue Padernacht, MA, PCC
CCEs: 1.5 Core Competencies
Date: Tuesday, April 6, 2021
Time: 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM Pacific Time
From the time we were children, most of us were taught to avoid and abhor failure. That belief system flies in the fact that failure is inevitable, and can be amplified even more so in these disruptive COVID-19 times. While popular literature, podcasts, and blogs espouse the platitudes of "celebrating and learning from failure," these provide little guidance or tools to navigate very human reactions with the realities of managing through failures.
Find out more »Executive Coaching SIG: Changing Trends in Executive Coaching
Topic: Changing Trends in Executive Coaching
Host: Tom Henschel
CCE’s: 1.0 Core Competencies / 0.5 Resource Development
Date: Friday, April 9, 2021
Time: 9:00 AM – 10:30 AM Pacific Time
Come join our learning community in April for an exploration of where executive coaching is heading during these turbulent times. Our conversations are lively and enlightening. Whether you're an established executive coach looking for community or someone curious about executive coaching — or someone in between! — this is your SIG. Turn on your video and come join us on the 9th.
Find out more »Business Building SIG: Intriguing Intros: How to engage potential clients in a way that doesn’t put them to sleep
Topic: Intriguing Intros: How to engage potential clients in a way that doesn't put them to sleep.
Host: Gretchen Hydo, MCC
CCE’s: 1.0 Core Competencies / 0.5 Resource Development
Date: Tuesday, April 13, 2021
Time: 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM Pacific Time
Learning how to effectively answer the question, "So what do you do," can be the first step towards a successful client relationship. Learning how to talk about coaching in an engaging way can lead to conversations and contacts. This SIG will focus on helping coaches sharpen their conversational skills with potential clients and at networking meetings all while teaching them a technique that Gretchen Hydo developed when she was in PR.
Find out more »Emotional Intelligence SIG: Meet and Greet
Topic: Emotional Intelligence: Meet and Greet
Speakers: Desiree Briel Rodi, ACC / Kathy Hadizadeh, PCC
CCE’s: NO CCEs
Date: Thursday, April 15, 2021
Time: 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM Pacific Time
As we prepare to launch the Emotional Intelligence SIG, we want to connect with you and hear your voices as we build this new community. We sent out a survey and asked you to tell us what you'd like to see in this new EI SIG. We are GRATEFUL for the responses and would like to share them with everyone interested in this SIG, as well as what you might expect as we move forward. Additionally, we'd love to meet you and for you to come to meet us, too! We hope you can join us for a 30-minute gathering at 12 pm on Thursday, April 15, 2021.
Find out more »Group and Team Coaching SIG
Topic: Establishing Agreements & Facilitating Client Growth
Host: Diana Ideus, MCC
CCE’s: 1.5 Core Competencies
Date: Tuesday, April 20, 2021
Time: 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM Pacific Time
How do the ICF Team Competencies impact how you establish agreements and facilitate client growth? How do the ICF Team Competencies change if you are coaching a group instead of a team? What challenges and best practices will you face as a coach navigating group and team dynamics?
Find out more »Coaching Supervision SIG
Topic: Ethical Dilemmas in Coaching Supervision
Host: Dr. Damian Goldvarg, MCC; ESIA
CCE’s: 1.5 Core Competencies
Date: Wednesday, April 21, 2021
Time: 12:00 PM – 1:30 PM Pacific Time
In this session, we will explore ethical dilemmas we found in our coaching work and how supervision works with coaches to support them in navigating them.
Find out more »Teleclass: Own Your Authorship
Topic: Own Your Authorship
Host: Kim O'Hara
CCEs: 0.5 Core Competencies / 0.5 Resource Development
Date: Thursday, April 22, 2021
Time: 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM Pacific Time
Writing a good book people will want to read is a big undertaking not for the faint of heart. What differentiates a successful author from another is the power in which they hold their belief system in their message and value. Owning your authorship is a key foundational step as they head into a year long book writing journey. To write a book, one must have a clear understanding of their story, expertise or system.
Find out more »Emotional Intelligence SIG: Emotional Intelligence: What are Feelings and Emotions?
Topic: Emotional Intelligence: What are Feelings and Emotions?
Speakers: Desiree Briel Rodi, ACC / Kathy Hadizadeh, PCC
CCE’s: 1.0 Core Competencies / 0.5 Resource Development
Date: Tuesday, April 27, 2021
Time: 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM Pacific Time
This first session of the new Emotional Intelligence Special Interest Group will be both interactive and engaging as we begin with a discussion of emotions, feelings, and their place in coaching. We will explore and spend some time together looking at the importance of emotions and feelings, models for labeling them, and various definitions and explanations of the purpose of emotions.
Find out more »Neuroscience SIG: The Neuroscience of habit formation: Change your Habits, Change your Life.
Topic: The Neuroscience of habit formation: Change your Habits, Change your Life.
Host: Ellen Cohen, J.D., CPCC, PCC
Speaker: Arnaud Complainville Ph.D. / Veronica Brejan, ACC
CCE’s: 1.0 Core Competencies / 0.5 Resource Development
Date: Friday, April 30, 2021
Time: 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM Pacific Time
In this masterclass, you will learn the 3 D framework of habit formation, the role of balancing dopamine and noradrenaline and you will receive a practical workbook for your toolkit to support your clients. With a set of scientifically proven insights, this webinar will help your clients design brain-friendly strategies for success, cognitive performance, wellbeing, and connection.
Find out more »May 2021
ICFLA Virtual May Chapter Meeting
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Topic: Leading in a Time of Crisis
Speaker: Marshall Goldsmith
CCEs: 1.0 Core Competencies / 0.5 Resource Development
Date: Tuesday, May 4, 2021
Time: 11:00 AM – 12:30 PM Pacific Time NOTE: Time change
Location: Virtual meeting via Zoom.us / Your link to join the conference will be sent after you register.
Dr. Marshall Goldsmith is the world authority in helping successful leaders achieve positive, lasting change in behavior: for themselves, their people, and their teams. In this webinar, Dr. Goldsmith will begin with a discussion of the unique challenges that occur for all professionals in a time of crisis.
Find out more »Teleclass: The Power of Pause: New Science about Brain Breaks, Stress Reduction, and Self-Care
Topic: The Power of Pause: New Science about Brain Breaks, Stress Reduction, and Self-Care
Host: James Garrett
CCEs: 1.0 Core Competencies / 0.5 Resource Development
Date: Wednesday, May 5, 2021
Time: 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM Pacific Time
With our work demands getting faster and faster, and the pressure to balance home and work continually rising, brain science has now shown that the key to our most productive, creative, and happiest selves isn't working harder, it's working smarter.
Find out more »International Coaching Week: Navigating Strong Emotions in Coaching : Coaching or Therapy?
Topic: Navigating Strong Emotions in Coaching: Coaching or Therapy?
Speaker: Patrick Williams, MCC
CCEs: 1.0 Core Competencies
Date: Monday, May 17, 2021
Time: 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM Pacific Time
Location: Virtual meeting via Zoom.us / Your link to join the conference will be sent after you register.
Distinctions of coaching versus therapy, emotional learning, and expression in coaching, creating psychological safety, know when and how to refer a client to another professional service, and self-care and self-awareness of the coaches emotional state.
Find out more »International Coaching Week: ROI & ROE of Coaching – Create Value and Have a Meaningful Impact?
Topic: ROI & ROE of Coaching: Create value and have a meaningful impact?
Speakers: Catherine Tanneau, MCC / Linda McLoughlin MCC
CCEs: 0.5 Core Competencies / 0.5 Resource Development
Date: Tuesday, May 18, 2021
Time: 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM Pacific Time
Location: Virtual meeting via Zoom.us / Your link to join the conference will be sent after you register.
In this Special Event we will understand the main value drivers of coaching ROE (Return on Experience),
Identify the lever to boost the coaching impact across the organization and get some useful tips to implement a customer-centric coaching practice: measure the impact of their assignments and better valorize their services.
International Coaching Week: How to Pick a Coach
Topic: How to Pick a Coach
Speaker: Carrie Williams, PCC
CCEs: 1.0 Resource Development
Date: Wednesday, May 19, 2021
Time: 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM Pacific Time
Location: Virtual meeting via Zoom.us / Your link to join the conference will be sent after you register.
Picking a coach is an important life decision. The coaching relationship can change your life and impact the course of your future. How do you pick the right coach? This workshop will share the 4 areas to consider in your coach vetting process, and will help ensure you are confident and happy with your choice of a coach.
Find out more »International Coaching Week: From Coaching Education to ICF Credential and Beyond: Mastering the fundamentals to build your successful coaching practice
Topic: From Coaching Education to ICF Credential and Beyond: Mastering the fundamentals to build your successful coaching practice
Speakers: John Volturo, PCC / Carrie Arnold, MCC / Sherri Gerek, PCC / Gina Restani, PCC / Elias Scultori, PCC
CCEs: 1.5 Resource Development
Date: Friday, May 21, 2021
Time: 11:00 AM – 12:30 PM Pacific Time
Location: Virtual meeting via Zoom.us / Your link to join the conference will be sent after you register.
During this interactive event, ICFLA President John Volturo will speak with esteemed faculty Carrie Arnold from Fielding University, Sherri Gerek from iPEC, Gina Restani from CTI, and Elias Scultori from CoachU. This panel is for audiences that include everyone from the coach curious to coaches already in practice.
Find out more »Teleclass: Culture Coaching & Culture Action Planning: The Missing Link in Executive Coaching
Topic: Culture Coaching & Culture Action Planning: The Missing Link in Executive Coaching
Host: Timothy Tiryaki, PCC
CCEs: 1.0 Core Competencies / 0.5 Resource Development
Date: Wednesday, May 26, 2021
Time: 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM Pacific Time
In this session, participants will learn about executive coaching as a way of coaching for strategy, culture, and influence. As coaches, it is critical we build the confidence and acumen to work with executive leaders; these are the leaders that need to own, promote, and influence culture as well as cultures of coaching within organizations to help both people and entities achieve their very best.
Find out more »June 2021
Teleclass: Coaching to Create a Culture of Trust
Topic: Coaching to Create a Culture of Trust
Host: Charles Feltman, PCC
CCEs: 1.5 Core Competencies
Date: Thursday, June 3, 2021
Time: 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM Pacific Time
It isn’t enough for a leader to be able to build trust one-to-one with others or even engender trust in groups. To succeed they have to create cultures in which others can easily build and maintain trust. This session will explore how coaches can use the trust-building framework described in The Thin Book of Trust to support leaders and teams in developing such high-trust cultures.
Find out more »Business Building SIG: What Holds You Back From Building Your Business
Topic: What Holds You Back From Building Your Business
Host: Gretchen Hydo, MCC
CCEs: 0.5 Core Competencies / 1.0 Resource Development
Date: Tuesday, June 8, 2021
Time: 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM Pacific Time
As coaches, we are dedicated to serving, giving, and shaping the lives of others. And while we love what we do, many of us struggle with our own limiting beliefs that keep us playing small in the business world. During this SIG we will look a the top reasons that coaches struggle to have thriving practices.
Find out more »Executive Coaching SIG: Team & Group Coaching
Topic: Team & Group Coaching
Host: Tom Henschel
CCEs: 1.5 Core Competencies
Date: Friday, June 11, 2021
Time: 9:00 AM - 10:30 AM Pacific Time
Whether you're an established executive coach looking for community or someone curious about executive coaching — or someone in between! — this is your SIG. In June, we explore Team & Group Coaching. How do you best help a team develop and grow virtually? Come share and learn best practices.
By the end of this session, coaches will understand the barriers to virtual team development and gain tools for lowering those barriers and helping groups grow.
Find out more »Volunteer Forum
Topic: Volunteer Forum (Free Event)
Date: Monday, June 14, 2021
Time: 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM Pacific Time
Location: Virtual meeting via Zoom.us / Your link to join the conference will be sent after you register.
Volunteers are valued members of our organization, allowing us to flourish and creating a sense of community. The volunteers benefit from this sense of community as they connect with like-minded people, network, socialize and learn from each other. During this event, you will get to meet some of the leaders on our Board of Directors, get a feel for what volunteering for ICF LA is like, and get a greater understanding of our volunteer needs and opportunities.
Find out more »Group and Team Coaching SIG: Group Coaching Demonstration
Topic: Group Coaching Demonstration
Host: Diana Ideus, MCC
CCEs: 1.5 Core Competencies
Date: Tuesday, June 15, 2021
Time: 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM Pacific Time
What does Group & Team Coaching sound like? What do coaches need to keep in mind when facilitating a Group or Team Coaching session? How do you Cultivate Trust & Safety with a Group that has never met? Volunteers needed for the Group Coaching Demonstration.
Find out more »Coaching Supervision SIG: Global Coaching Supervision Study
Topic: Global Coaching Supervision Study
Host: Dr. Damian Goldvarg, MCC, ESIA
Speaker: Dr. Kimcee McAnally, PCC, ESIA
CCE’s: 1.0 Core Competencies / 0.5 Resource Development
Date: Wednesday, June 16, 2021
Time: 12:00 PM – 1:30 PM Pacific Time
A global study of coaching supervision was conducted in 2018 that resulted in responses from 1,280 coaches about various aspects of coaching supervision. Of these respondents, 497 were from executive coaches who reported living in the Americas (e.g., North, Central, and South America). This presentation examines the responses from these American coaches, in particular, to provide insight into their general awareness, and practices for both individual and group coaching supervision.
Find out more »Teleclass: Time & Action Mastery: What to do, why, when, and for how long to build and sustain your coaching business!
Topic: Time & Action Mastery: What to do, why, when, and for how long to build and sustain your coaching business!
Host: Michael Charest
CCEs: 0.5 Core Competencies / 1.0 Resource Development
Date: Thursday, June 17, 2021
Time: 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM Pacific Time
Ready for a more organized, productive, and profitable use of your time? Would you like to experience the sense of peace and confidence that comes with knowing exactly how to spend your time for the success your desire? Mastering your schedule and actions may very well be the most critical element of business success!
Find out more »Emotional Intelligence SIG: Self-Awareness: Surfacing and Understanding Emotions
Topic: Emotional Intelligence SIG: Self-Awareness: Surfacing and Understanding Emotions
Speakers: Desiree Briel Rodi, ACC / Kathy Hadizadeh, PCC
CCE’s: 1.5 Core Competencies
Date: Tuesday, June 22, 2021
Time: 11:00 AM – 12:30 PM Pacific Time
In this EI session, we will focus on Self-Awareness, particularly the impact and importance of self-awareness in coaching engagement. We will continue to discuss and build upon emotions and feelings as information and data in surfacing and using the emotions of our clients to create new exploration and impact. We will also explore how we as coaches can track, understand and use our own emotions in service of the client.
Find out more »Neuroscience SIG: The 3 Brains – Head, Heart, and Gut – Connection: The missing link for long-lasting coaching results!
Topic: Neuroscience SIG: The 3 Brains - Head, Heart, and Gut - Connection: The missing link for long-lasting coaching results!
Host: Ellen Cohen, J.D., CPCC, PCC
Speaker: Christoffel Sneijders
CCEs: 1.5 Core Competencies
Date: Friday, June 25, 2021
Time: 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM Pacific Time
The 3 Brains (Head, Heart, and Gut) Coaching Theory provides you the answers and has the insights and techniques to work effectively with this topic. Understanding and speaking the language of the Head, Heart, and Gut-Brain provides critical information to coach our clients to make long-lasting change. In this Webinar, Christoffel will share the 3 Brains concept and discuss how to analyze the 3 Brains and how we could use this in our coaching practice.
Find out more »July 2021
Executive Coaching SIG: Building a Referral Network
Topic: Building a Referral Network
Host: Tom Henschel
CCEs: 0.5 Core Competencies / 1.0 Resource Development
Date: Friday, July 9, 2021
Time: 9:00 AM - 10:30 AM Pacific Time
Networking is often viewed as self-serving. Many coaches dread it. Plus, the last year of isolation has been a challenge to even the most dedicated networkers. This month we tackle best practices for building a referral network which is, after all, the bedrock of every coach's business.
Find out more »Business Building SIG: Writing a Book Could Be the Very Best Thing You Ever Do for Your Business
Topic: Writing a Book Could Be the Very Best Thing You Ever Do for Your Business
Host: Gretchen Hydo, MCC
Speaker: Honoree Corder
CCEs: TBD
Date: Tuesday, July 13, 2021
Time: 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM Pacific Time
Honorée Corder is a Strategic Book Coach & Author of 53 best-selling books with over 4 million in worldwide sales. She will share with us why writing a book can transform your brand and your business, share some possible additional income streams you can develop as a result of publishing your book, and a few tips to get us started.
Find out more »Teleclass: DEI&B + Real Culture Change
Topic: DEI&B + Real Culture Change
Host: Tim Morton / Stacey McKibbin
CCEs: 1.0 Core Competencies / 0.5 Resource Development
Date: Wednesday, July 14, 2021
Time: 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM Pacific Time
This time in our history presents a great opportunity for Coaches to be at the forefront of bold, and sustainable Diversity, Equity, Inclusion & Belonging (DEI&B) culture change. In this session, participants will learn how tangible DEI&B transformation within companies requires a focus on 'real culture change'. That sustainable DEI&B change is not a tick the box exercise and it will not happen with a just training or communication event, or a policy change, but can happen with a focused, structured, and consistent journey to change mindsets and behaviors.
Find out more »Group and Team Coaching SIG: Group & Team Case Studies
Topic: Group & Team Case Studies
Host: Diana Ideus, MCC
CCEs: 1.5 Core Competencies
Date: Tuesday, July 20, 2021
Time: 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM Pacific Time
Group & Team coaching is both similar to and more challenging than 1:1 coaching. The case studies discussed will allow coaches to brainstorm and strategize what language and actions will support their ability to establish & maintain the coaching agreement and well cultivate trust & safety during challenging group & team client scenarios.
Find out more »Coaching Supervision SIG: Thriving Through Coach Supervision – Noticing, Embodying, and Propagating Resilience
Topic: Thriving Through Coach Supervision – Noticing, Embodying, and Propagating Resilience
Host: Dr. Damian Goldvarg, MCC, ESIA
Speakers: Dr. Sarah Evans, MCC / Alex Chamow, PCC
CCE’s: 1.0 Core Competencies / 0.5 Resource Development
Date: Wednesday, July 21, 2021
Time: 12:00 PM – 1:30 PM Pacific Time
Our world is in a perpetual state of disruption and transition. How can we best support our colleagues as we also replenish our own reserves when the stakes are high, the background is loaded, and truly peaceful moments can be hard to find? The practice of coaching supervision and holding space for reflection, meaning making and learning is a vital support for coaches. In this session, we will be looking at a framework for ‘Resilience Resourcing’ – thriving through coach supervision, with a priority on restoration – for ourselves, our coaches, their clients, our world.
Find out more »Teleclass: The Neuroscience of Gratitude – Discovering the Personal and Professional Benefits
Topic: The Neuroscience of Gratitude - Discovering the Personal and Professional Benefits
Host: Linda Roszak Burton, ACC
CCEs: 1.0 Core Competencies
Date: Thursday, July 22, 2021
Time: 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM Pacific Time
The pandemic offers coaches and clients a time of great reflection, guiding us to "unpack" our experiences, gain insights and discover opportunities for growth. At each reflection point, the human brain will naturally default to our built-in negativity bias. And yet, research shows how the brain responds to gratitude, ultimately offering the greatest possibility to enter the post-pandemic era creative, resourceful, and whole. This program shares the science of gratitude, the related neuroscience and considers coaching success factors for our overall well-being, our clients and their organizations.
Find out more »Neuroscience SIG: 10 Little-Known Neuroscience Strategies You Can Use When Coaching Clients
Topic: 10 Little-Known Neuroscience Strategies You Can Use When Coaching Clients
Host: Ellen Cohen, J.D., CPCC, PCC
Speaker: Dr. Irena O'Brien, Ph.D.
CCEs: 1.0 Core Competencies / 0.5 Resource Development
Date: Friday, July 30, 2021
Time: 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM Pacific Time
As a neuroscientist, I've spent over 20 years studying psychology and neuroscience. I've put together the 10 little-known neuroscience strategies I use to make my brain work for me. These strategies are immediately actionable and, on this live webinar, you'll learn how you can use these 10 neuroscience strategies when coaching clients . . . and to make your brain work for you too.
Find out more »August 2021
Teleclass: Selling with Ease and Authenticity to Grow Your Coaching Practice
Topic: Selling with Ease and Authenticity to Grow Your Coaching Practice
Speaker: Caterina Rando
CCEs: 1.5 Resource Development
Date: Tuesday, August 17, 2021
Time: 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM Pacific Time
With our work demands getting faster and faster, and the pressure to balance home and work continually rising, brain science has now shown that the key to our most productive, creative, and happiest selves isn't working harder, it's working smarter.
Find out more »September 2021
Teleclass: Coaching with Visual Thinking using Digital Whiteboards
Topic: Coaching with Visual Thinking using Digital Whiteboards
Host: Paul Sanbar, PCC
CCEs: 1.0 Core Competencies / 0.5 Resource Development
Date: Thursday, September 23, 2021
Time: 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM Pacific Time
Join in on this highly experiential session where attendees will be introduced to digital whiteboards and the benefits of adding asynchronous and synchronous visual thinking activities to their coaching engagements.
Find out more »November 2021
Teleclass: Recognizing Oppression: Coaching Tools for DEI Competency
Topic: Recognizing Oppression: Coaching Tools for DEI Competency
Speaker: Bahia Yackzan
CCEs: 0.5 Core Competencies / 0.5 Resource Development
Date: Thursday, November 18, 2021
Time: 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM Pacific Time
In this teleclass, participants will be introduced to Bahia’s step-by-step process for cultivating new pathways and inroads into an inclusive mindset using the Core Alignment and Emotional Wisdom training tools which are foundational to her DEI approach.
Find out more »June 2022
Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion- Introductions to DEI, terms, and definitions- setting the foundation for clarity and understanding
Topic: Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion- Introductions to DEI, terms, and definitions- setting the foundation for clarity and understanding
Speaker: Graciela Meibar, PCC / Nancy C. Tylim, MCC
CCEs: 0.5 Core Competencies / 0.5 Resource Development
Date: Friday, June 17, 2022
Time: 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM Pacific Time
This program will provide clarity on terminology and words to create a foundational understanding of DEI. What does it all mean and how you can leverage the learning to speak with confidence about these very important topics.
Find out more »Teleclass: How to Use Negotiation in the Coaching Relationship
Topic: How to Use Negotiation in the Coaching Relationship
Speaker: Carson Cooper, PCC
CCEs: 1.0 Core Competencies / 0.5 Resource Development
Date: Wednesday, June 29, 2022
Time: 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM Pacific Time
In this 90-minute interactive workshop with Carson Cooper, PCC, you will learn essential coaching, mediation, negotiation, and Neuro-Linguistic Programming skills that make your coaching results more tangible.
Find out more »July 2022
Teleclass: Introduction to Medical Coaching
Topic: Introduction to Medical Coaching
Host: Shiri Ben-Arzi, MCC
CCEs: 1.0 Core Competencies / 0.5 Resource Development
Date: Thursday, July 14, 2022
Time: 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM Pacific Time
Medical Coaching is a growing niche within coaching. This webinar opens a window into the world of Medical Coaching and the coach approach within medical and health contexts. We will address the theoretical and professional pillars of the model, the difference between Medical Coaching and other coaching models, learn new approaches and skills around the quality of life, resilience, chronic stress and burnout, VUCA, and narratives of health and illness and emotional agility.
Find out more »August 2022
Cultural Self-Awareness: An Integral Part of Your Coaching Practice and Growing It
Topic: Cultural Self-Awareness: An integral Part of Your Coaching Practice and Growing It
Speaker: Joel Perez, ACC / Nancy C. Tylim, MCC
CCEs: 1.0 Core Competencies
Date: Friday, August 5, 2022
Time: 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM Pacific Time
The demographics of our clients have changed, and they are bringing with them challenges that they are asking us to help them with. This could include the following: microaggressions, code-switching, unconscious bias, etc. Do you feel prepared to help them with these challenges and how it impacts the goals they are trying to achieve? This presentation will cover how you can begin to develop cultural self-awareness and other awareness to help you serve your changing clients more effectively. It starts with developing cultural self-awareness and other awareness.
Find out more »Teleclass: Success Through Emotional Management: The Wingwave Method
Topic: Success Through Emotional Management: The Wingwave Method
Speaker: Cora Besser-Siegmund
CCEs: 0.75 Core Competencies / 0.25 Resource Development
Date: Thursday, August 11, 2022
Time: 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM Pacific Time
Managers, students, pupils, artists, and athletes must continuously prove themselves in all kinds of test situations: lectures, presentations, exams, public speaking, acquisition, and competitions. In these important life situations, there is often a lack of emotional balance which, despite meticulous preparation, obscures one’s true capability. Wingwave coaching helps people to perform with precise proficiency, confidence, determination, and enthusiasm.
Find out more »Teleclass: Amplifying Your Coaching Impact Through Arts-Based Experiential Learning
Topic: Amplifying Your Coaching Impact Through Arts-Based Experiential Learning
Host: Fred Mandell, Ph.D.
CCEs: 1.0 Core Competencies / 0.5 Resource Development
Date: Wednesday, August 17, 2022
Time: 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM Pacific Time
Roll up your sleeves! This program will immerse you in an arts-based experiential learning activity AND introduce you to the concepts, research, and impact of arts-based experiential learning as a coaching methodology. We will introduce participants to the theory and science behind Arts-Based Experiential Learning (ABEL) as a bridge into engaging participants directly in arts-based experiences.
Find out more »New Member Town Hall – August 2022
Topic: New Member Town Hall
Host: Jen Wilson, ACC, CPCC / Matt Mills, MA, PCC, CPC, ELI-MP
Date: Tuesday, August 30, 2022
Time: 5:00 PM - 6:00 PM Pacific Time
ICFLA is a thriving global community for Coaches and the coach-curious that provides programming, development, and community that can help you to build and grow your coaching impact. Learn more about your membership benefits, connect with other coaches and have your questions answered about getting involved.
Find out more »September 2022
Teleclass: Coaching Leaders and Teams to Exercise Healthy Politics
Topic: Coaching Leaders and Teams to Exercise Healthy Politics
Speaker: Mohamed Sharaf Eldin, PCC
CCEs: 1.0 Core Competencies / 0.5 Resource Development
Date: Wednesday, September 7, 2022
Time: 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM Pacific Time
Leadership Politics explores the power vs. powerlessness, how teams collaborate and conflict, how to acknowledge power and conflicts, that leaders and teams need to exercise as they go up the ladder, and how to develop that in a healthy/non-toxic way.
Find out more »Implicit Bias: What it is, Why it Matters, and How to Navigate it
Topic: Implicit Bias: What it is, Why it Matters, and How to Navigate it
Speaker: Gina Rodriguez, PCC / Christie Carney
CCEs: 1.5 Core Competencies
Date: Thursday, September 29, 2022
Time: 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM Pacific Time
This Special DEI Event will explore implicit bias and how it manifests in our thinking and actions as human beings. The brain naturally organizes information by looking for patterns, associations, and categories. Implicit bias is influenced by our background, culture, and experiences. Yet implicit thinking becomes a hindrance as we live and work in an increasingly diverse society. This Special DEI Event will evoke awareness on identifying biases, keeping them in check, and evolving beyond them.
Find out more »October 2022
Teleclass: Elements of an Effective Coaching Website
Topic: Elements of an Effective Coaching Website
Speaker: Rebecca Eisner
CCEs: 1.0 Resource Development
Date: Tuesday, October 18, 2022
Time: 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM Pacific Time
In this 60-minute class, designer, strategist, online business mentor and entrepreneur Rebecca Eisner will show you how to optimize your coaching website so that you can book more aligned clients. We’ll touch upon key aspects of your brand, website structure and anatomy, plus a few key website tips you won’t want to miss (SEO and accessibility anyone?) By the end of this class, you’ll have a better understanding of how to improve your website so that more aligned clients say YES.
Find out more »Microaggression and its Dimensions: Tools for moving from microaggression to microaffirmation
Topic: Microaggression and its Dimensions: Tools for moving from microaggression to microaffirmation
Speaker: Dr. Heather Backstrom, PCC / Sunni Smith, PCC
CCEs: 1.0 Core Competencies / 0.5 Resource Development
Date: Thursday, October 20, 2022
Time: 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM Pacific Time
This Special DEI Event is a journey in which you will gain insight on moving from microaggressions to microaffirmations. In this interactive session, we will explore the dimensions of microaggressions, including the intent and impact associated with them. We will also explore appropriate ways to respond, including microaffirmations. Our journey from microaggressions to microaffirmations is aimed to evoke your awareness, enhance your coaching mindset, and cultivate trust and safety.
Find out more »New Member Town Hall – October 2022
Topic: New Member Town Hall
Host: Jen Wilson, ACC, CPCC / Matt Mills, MA, PCC, CPC, ELI-MP
Date: Tuesday, October 25, 2022
Time: 5:00 PM - 6:00 PM Pacific Time
ICFLA is a thriving global community for Coaches and the coach-curious that provides programming, development, and community that can help you to build and grow your coaching impact. Learn more about your membership benefits, connect with other coaches and have your questions answered about getting involved.
Find out more »November 2022
Book Writing SIG: Why Write A Book? Focusing In On Narrative Objectives
Topic: Why Write A Book? Focusing In On Narrative Objectives
Speaker: Kim O’Hara
CCEs: 1.5 Resource Development
Date: Wednesday, November 2, 2022
Time: 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM Pacific Time
Storytelling and the understanding of a client’s old and new narrative is important in coaching; as important for the coach as it is for the client. When the idea of writing a book comes up, especially if a professional is not a natural writer, there is the presentation of confusion. Why would I do this, and how come the idea won’t go away? When called to write a book, the best way to eliminate the overwhelm and confusion is to drill down into the objectives of the book.
Find out more »ICF Western Region Chapters Event: A Chat with David Clutterbuck, one of the Fathers of Team Coaching
Topic: A Chat with David Clutterbuck, one of the Fathers of Team Coaching
Host: DeBorah (Sunni) Smith, PCC
Speaker: David Clutterbuck
CCEs: 1.0 Core Competencies / 0.25 Resource Development
Date: Thursday, November 3, 2022
Time: 12:00 PM – 1:30 PM Pacific Time
Today, Team Coaching is one of the most compelling and sought-after interventions by corporate and other organizational entities. This 90-minute talk/ interview with globally recognized David Clutterbuck will focus on his expertise and massive contributions to Team Coaching. Considered the “Father of Team Coaching,” he will address how to effectively empower teams to co-create in achieving their common objectives and goals. He also will respond to questions from the various sponsoring ICF Western Region chapters that center on team performance, development, innovation, flexibility, adaptability, and goal alignment.
Find out more »360 Lunch and Learn: Catalyze Transformation with Clients through Powerful 360 Reports
Topic: Catalyze Transformation with Clients through Powerful 360 Reports
Speaker: Isabelle Kidon
CCEs: 0.5 Core Competencies / 0.5 Resource Development
Date: Friday, November 4, 2022
Time: 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM Pacific Time
Come learn best practices to create insightful 360 reports that become a powerful foundation for your coaching work with leaders. From the questions you ask in 360 interviews to what the best reports look like, join 360 report expert Isabelle Kidon to level up your 360 process.
Find out more »Teleclass: Elevating from PCC to MCC
Topic: Elevating from PCC to MCC
Speaker: Diana Ideus, MCC
CCEs: 1.5 Core Competencies
Date: Tuesday, November 8, 2022
Time: 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM Pacific Time
What is the difference in coaching quality and client relationship between a PCC (Professional Certified Coach) and a MCC (Master Certified Coach)? How does your presence change as a coach? How does enhancement in your knowledge of the ICF Core Competencies and PCC Markers change how you show up for your clients? Join Diana Ideus, MCC and President Elect of ICFLA, for this interactive teleclass supporting your coach development from PCC to MCC.
Find out more »Teleclass: Coaching for Exponential Growth
Topic: Coaching for Exponential Growth
Speaker: Julian Humphreys Ph.D., PCC
CCEs: 1.5 Core Competencies
Date: Wednesday, November 30, 2022
Time: 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM Pacific Time
Much has been written about exponential organizations (ExOs or 10X organizations), but what does exponential growth look like for individuals?
Find out more »December 2022
Equity: Building Understanding of it for Your Coaching Practice
Topic: Equity: Building Understanding of it for Your Coaching Practice
Speaker: Dr. Joel Perez, PCC / Graciela Meibar, PCC
CCEs: 1.0 Core Competencies / 0.5 Resource Development
Date: Friday, December 2, 2022
Time: 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM Pacific Time
This special DEI Event is the last of the series for 2022. Designed for you to learn about Equity, what it is, and how it can show up or not in organizations. And to highlight ways for you to begin to build fluency on the topic and how to work with clients who bring it up as a coaching focus.
Find out more »Teleclass: What the Heck is Ethical Maturity?
Topic: What the Heck is Ethical Maturity?
Speaker: Lily Seto, PCC
CCEs: 1.5 Core Competencies
Date: Wednesday, December 7, 2022
Time: 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM Pacific Time
In this webinar, we will discuss the difference between law, ethics, and morals and how ethical maturity applies to our coaching practice. Based mainly on the book by Michael Carroll and Elisabeth Shaw "Ethical Maturity in the Helping Professions," as well as years of experience as a coach/coaching supervisor and 4 years of investigating potential ethical breaches for ICF Global, the presenter will share thoughts and provoke learning about how each coach has evolved their ethics/moral standards.
Find out more »ICF Western Region Chapters Event: Celebrating Conversations about DE&I with Thought Leader, Jennifer Brown
Topic: Celebrating Conversations about DE&I with Thought Leader, Jennifer Brown
Host: Joel Perez, ACC
Speaker: Jennifer Brown
CCEs: 1.5 Core Competencies
Date: Thursday, December 8, 2022
Time: 12:00 PM – 1:30 PM Pacific Time
One core value in the advancement of the coaching profession, is ICF’s shared commitment to diversity, inclusion, belonging, and justice. Western Region, ICF Chapters is proud to present Jennifer Brown, a globally recognized, DEI thought leader, highly sought-after speaker, award-winning entrepreneur, and best-selling author. She will dialogue with an ICF LA host in an intimate 90 -minute, “fire-side like chat.” Jennifer will also address questions presented by various ICF Chapters members that focus on DEI in coaching. She will share highlights of the second edition of her bestselling book, “How to be an Inclusive Leader,” which includes insights from over 20 years of experience working with organizations to create workplaces where everyone thrives and belongs.
Find out more »January 2023
Book Writing SIG – January 2023
Topic: The Components of Authorship: Set Yourself Up For Success
Host: Kim O’Hara
Speaker: Andrea DeWitt, M.Ed., CPCC, ACC
CCEs: 1.5 Resource Development
Date: Wednesday, January 11, 2023
Time: 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM Pacific Time
Many authors come into writing books without having thought through the important aspects of marketing and branding of themselves as authors but also the content of their books. As writing the book effectively can be only 6-8 months, the marketing and selling of the book last indefinitely. Giving the book legs involves strategizing in advance as to what will be the strongest selling points for the book. Guest Speaker, Author and Coach, Andrea DeWitt has just released her book Name, Claim & Reframe: Your Path to a Well-Lived Life and will talk about what she did to step into a greater position of promotion power.
Find out more »Coaching Supervision Group SIG – January 2023
Topic: Coaching Supervision Group SIG
Speaker: Paul Sanbar, PCC, ESIA* / Courtney Birch Webster, PCC, CPCC
CCEs: 1.0 Core Competencies / 0.5 Resource Development
Date: Wednesday, January 11, 2023
Time: 3:00 PM – 4:30 PM Pacific Time
Supervision is a non-judgmental partnership in which the coach brings his/her work to a supervisor to explore challenges, ethical dilemmas, emotional responses, and how the personal may intrude into the professional. The supervisor does not evaluate or judge but holds a reflective space for learning and connection for the group.
Find out more »Teleclass: Your Coaching Business – A Vision for Success in 2023
Topic: Your Coaching Business – A Vision for Success in 2023
Speaker: Kat Knecht, PCC
CCEs: 0.5 Core Competencies / 1.0 Resource Development
Date: Thursday, January 12, 2023
Time: 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM Pacific Time
The best way to begin a new year is to look back and grab some knowledge from the past year, then move forward with that wisdom along with the new possibilities presented when the calendar changes over to a new year. To help you close out the old year and ring in a new year in your coaching business, Kat Knecht will be hosting this visioning workshop.
Find out more »Teleclass Funcomfortable: The Uncomfortably Fun Truth About Growth
Topic: Funcomfortable: The Uncomfortably Fun Truth About Growth
Speaker: James Garrett
CCEs: 1.0 Core Competencies / 0.5 Resource Development
Date: Wednesday, January 18, 2023
Time: 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM Pacific Time
In this session, you’ll learn the five science-based tools to help your client change their actual brain chemistry by adding the magic ingredient of FUN. Fun is what makes our brain want to repeat a behavior. But it’s also a skill. The better you get at combining discomfort with fun, the more momentum and growth your client will create in their lives.
Find out more »February 2023
Credentialing SIG – February 2023
Topic: Credentialing SIG
Host: Carly Anderson, MCC
CCEs: 1.0 Core Competencies / 0.5 Resource Development
Date: Thursday, February 2, 2023
Time: 2:00 PM – 3:30 PM Pacific Time
ICF provides a path of development for professional coaches who want to differentiate themselves from anyone who calls themselves a coach. The credentialing path supports coaches to develop from beginning level (ACC) to intermediate level (PCC), to advanced coaching skill level (MCC).
If you are interested in what it takes to become credentialed at ACC, PCC, or MCC level this group is for you! If you are a mentor coach who wants to engage in dialogue about competency distinctions to support your development as a mentor coach, you are also welcome!
Find out more »Coaching Supervision Group SIG – February 2023
Topic: Coaching Supervision Group SIG
Hosts: Paul Sanbar, PCC, ESIA* / Courtney Birch Webster, PCC, CPCC
CCEs: 1.0 Core Competencies / 0.5 Resource Development
Date: Wednesday, February 8, 2023
Time: 3:00 PM – 4:30 PM Pacific Time
Supervision is a non-judgmental partnership in which the coach brings his/her work to a supervisor to explore challenges, ethical dilemmas, emotional responses, and how the personal may intrude into the professional. The supervisor does not evaluate or judge but holds a reflective space for learning and connection for the group.
Find out more »Executive Coaching SIG – February 2023
Topic: Building Our Learning
Host: Tom Henschel
CCEs: 0.5 Core Competencies / 1.0 Resource Development
Date: Friday, February 10, 2023
Time: 9:00 AM - 10:30 AM Pacific Time
We spend our February meetings deepening our community and designing the year's learning. These annual get-togethers are among our most popular meetings. Come build connections as we reflect together on our growth as coaches. See you there!
Find out more »Business Building SIG – February 2023
Topic: Art of Enrollment: 5 Key Tips to Successful Connection Conversations
Speaker: Gretchen Hydo, MCC
CCEs: 1.5 Resource Development
Date: Tuesday, February 14, 2023
Time: 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM Pacific Time
In this interactive workshop, Master Coach, Gretchen Hydo, will teach the art of enrollment beginning with prepping yourself, to being fully present with your client. She will answer questions from the floor, and demo what a successful enrollment call sounds like. She will break down the process into manageable steps and will focus on helping coaches slow down to speed up. Many coaches try to connect, sell and close all in one 30-minute session. Hydo will help participants create a roadmap that breaks the process down, connect, invite, serve, propose, serve in a slowed down and relaxed way.
Find out more »New Member Town Hall – February 2023
Topic: New Member Town Hall
Speakers: Patty Crabtree / Matt Mills, MA, PCC, CPC, ELI-MP
Date: Tuesday, February 14, 2023
Time: 3:00 PM – 4:00 PM Pacific Time
ICFLA is a thriving global community for Coaches and the coach-curious that provides programming, development, and community that can help you to build and grow your coaching impact. Learn more about our membership benefits, connect with other coaches and have your questions answered about getting involved. This virtual class is for members new to ICFLA or those who are interested in joining our community.
Find out more »Group and Team Coaching SIG – February 2023
Topic: How can we leverage a team’s or group’s evolution to maximize coaching impact?
Speakers: Maribel Aleman, PCC and Dominique Mas, PCC
CCEs: 1.5 Core Competencies
Date: Tuesday, February 21, 2023
Time: 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM Pacific Time
Often used interchangeably, team and group coaching call on very different skills. Teams are a specific type of group, in which all members are working together towards a common goal, usually focused on enhancing the organization or the team’s relationship and processes. Groups bring together individuals who are working towards their own goal and share an interest or challenge. Through coaching, they benefit from the other members’ wisdom and stories. Join us to learn new techniques that pertain to groups and team coaching, practice, share and have fun in the process!
Find out more »MCC Group SIG – February 2023
Topic: MCC Group SIG
Hosts: Damian Goldvarg, Ph.D., MCC, CSP, ESIA / Carrie Williams, MCC
CCEs: 1.5 Resource Development
Date: Wednesday, February 22, 2023
Time: 12:00 PM – 1:30 PM Pacific Time
This SIG is only for members who have achieved their MCC credential.
This month we will discuss coaching trends for 2023, and the key coaching issues we need to pay attention to grow our skills and businesses. We will also clarify our two proposed goals for the year: hosting an ICFLA MCC Conference for coaches of all levels, and writing a book that shares our coaching wisdom and experience with the coaching community. Please invite your MCC friends to join us.
Find out more »Emotional Intelligence SIG – February 2023
Topic: Emotional Intelligence SIG
Host: Desiree Briel Rodi, ACC
CCEs: 0.75 Core Competencies / 0.75 Resource Development
Date: Tuesday, February 28, 2023
Time: 11:00 AM – 12:30 PM Pacific Time
In this session, we will explore different types of EI assessment – self-report vs. situational vs. imagery. We will also explore in-depth two specific EI assessments available for use in coaching. Participants will have the opportunity to explore one of these visual EI assessments, firsthand, and will also have the opportunity to walk through sample results provided by each. We will further discuss how to use other types of assessments to drive EI-focused coaching conversations.
Find out more »March 2023
Lunch and Learn: A New Field in Coaching – Organizational Culture Coaching (OCC)
Topic: A New Field in Coaching: Organizational Culture Coaching (OCC)
Speaker: Timothy Tiryaki, PCC
CCEs: 0.5 Core Competencies / 0.5 Resource Development
Date: Wednesday, March 1, 2023
Time: 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM Pacific Time
The session will define organizational culture coaching and why it is so important in the post-COVID era. Participants will understand how they can strengthen their coaching practice by bringing in culture coaching and contribute to their clients’ culture transformation. Participants will learn how Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs is relevant to today’s organizations and the Maslowian approach to culture coaching.
Find out more »Book Writing SIG – March 2023
Topic: Coaches Who Write Memoirs: How Does This Inform My Business?
Speakers: Kim O'Hara / Katie Post, PCC, CPCC
CCEs: 0.5 Core Competencies / 1.0 Resource Development
Date: Wednesday, March 8, 2023
Time: 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM Pacific Time
Coaches often think that their personal narrative is not informative to their practice. Yet, with the marketplace flooded more than ever with life/business/executive coaches, never has there been a more critical time to get crystal clear on how your specific story informs your brand. One of the best ways to attract your perfect client base is resonate in your offerings and language your history, and how you developed the root of your coaching intentions. The message is in the mess, and nothing is more noble than the honesty of a teacher. Clients will flock to your practice because they resonate with your experience.
Find out more »Coaching Supervision Group SIG – March 2023
Topic: Coaching Supervision Group SIG
Hosts: Paul Sanbar, PCC, ESIA* / Courtney Birch Webster, PCC, CPCC
CCEs: 1.0 Core Competencies / 0.5 Resource Development
Date: Wednesday, March 8, 2023
Time: 3:00 PM – 4:30 PM Pacific Time
Supervision is a non-judgmental partnership in which the coach brings his/her work to a supervisor to explore challenges, ethical dilemmas, emotional responses, and how the personal may intrude into the professional. The supervisor does not evaluate or judge but holds a reflective space for learning and connection for the group.
Find out more »Teleclass: Minding Your Time – Integrating Mindfulness for Success
Topic: Minding Your Time – Integrating Mindfulness for Success
Speaker: Ayana Band
CCEs: 0.5 Core Competencies / 1.0 Resource Development
Date: Thursday, March 9, 2023
Time: 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM Pacific Time
This Teleclass will be covering: Mindfulness techniques to stay focused and on track, Using the ultradian rhythm to your advantage, Learn how to overcome common obstacles to productivity and manage your time effectively, Maximizing your energies; physical, mental and emotional. Upon conclusion, participants will have the tools to create plans and to-do list that actually serves them to close the gap between where they are and where they desire to be. Participants will learn how to incorporate mindfulness techniques into their everyday life and how to manage and maximize their energies for success.
Find out more »DEI SIG: Gaining Perspective and Learning from Black Female Coaches
Topic: DEI SIG: Gaining Perspective and Learning from Black Female Coaches
Moderator: Diana Ideus, MCC
Speakers:Stace Middlebrooks, M.A., PCCC, CBC, Tiffany A. Dedeaux, PCC, and Cathrine James
CCEs: 1.0 Core Competencies / 0.5 Resource Development
Date: Thursday, March 30, 2023
Time: 11:00 AM – 12:30 PM Pacific Time
This special DEI Event is part of the DEI SIG for 2023 to help foster a greater understanding diversity and the needs of certain groups of individuals in our community. Designed for you to learn about a particular diversity dimension with more depth and clarity to develop greater understanding of perspective and needs of potential clients.
Find out more »April 2023
Credentialing SIG – April 2023
Topic: Credentialing SIG
Host: Carly Anderson, MCC
CCEs: 1.0 Core Competencies / 0.5 Resource Development
Date: Thursday, April 6, 2023
Time: 2:00 PM – 3:30 PM Pacific Time
The April 2023 SIG will also feature Core Competency #2. Embodies a Coaching Mindset. Includes exploration of what it means to be an “open and curious coach.” Discussion will include ACC, PCC and MCC distinctions.
ICF provides a path of development for professional coaches who want to differentiate themselves from anyone who calls themselves a coach. The credentialing path supports coaches to develop from beginning level (ACC) to intermediate level (PCC), to advanced coaching skill level (MCC).
If you are interested in what it takes to become credentialed at ACC, PCC, or MCC level this group is for you! If you are a mentor coach who wants to engage in dialogue about competency distinctions to support your development as a mentor coach, you are also welcome!
Find out more »Coaching Supervision Group SIG – April 2023
Topic: Coaching Supervision Group SIG
Hosts: Paul Sanbar, PCC, ESIA* / Courtney Birch Webster, PCC, CPCC
CCEs: 1.0 Core Competencies / 0.5 Resource Development
Date: Wednesday, April 12, 2023
Time: 3:00 PM – 4:30 PM Pacific Time
Supervision is a non-judgmental partnership in which the coach brings his/her work to a supervisor to explore challenges, ethical dilemmas, emotional responses, and how the personal may intrude into the professional. The supervisor does not evaluate or judge but holds a reflective space for learning and connection for the group.
Find out more »Executive Coaching SIG – April 2023
Topic: Executive Coaching Trends
Host: Tom Henschel
CCEs: 1.0 Core Competencies / 0.5 Resource Development
Date: Friday, April 14, 2023
Time: 9:00 AM – 10:30 AM Pacific Time
The world of work continues to change. Leaders are facing challenges no one could've imagined three years ago. What does that mean for us as coaches? Join us as we explore the trends emerging in our work.
Upon conclusion of this SIG event, participants will understand what trends are emerging for executive coaches, what challenges are emerging for our clients and how we can best serve our clients during these times of change.
Find out more »Group and Team Coaching SIG – April 2023
Topic: Psychological Safety in Groups/Team Coaching and Trauma-Informed Group Coaching
Speakers: Karen Palmer, ACC and Heather Lynn Wagner
CCEs: 1.5 Core Competencies
Date: Tuesday, April 18, 2023
Time: 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM Pacific Time
This is a two part event. In the first part, you will learn how to prepare yourself and your group/team coaching participants for a vulnerable and deeper coaching experience. Karen will help us define and unpack psychological safety and she will share frameworks to support you. You’ll be able to create group coaching activities and explore deep group coaching topics safely and bravely with your clients.
Find out more »Teleclass: Reignite Your Creativity for More Confidence, Income & Success
Topic: Reignite Your Creativity for More Confidence, Income & Success
Speaker: Alex Cappe
CCEs: 1.0 Core Competencies / 0.5 Resource Development
Date: Wednesday, April 19, 2023
Time: 11:00 AM – 12:30 PM Pacific Time
Each of us has limitless potential, including limitless potential to be creative. In this inspiring and engaging training, Alex Cappe helps demystify creativity, provides ways to tap back into it, gives examples of how to utilize it in a coaching practice and reveals how being connected to your creativity brings more joy and fulfillment to your days and success to your business.
Find out more »MCC Group SIG – April 2023
Topic: MCC Group SIG
Hosts: Damian Goldvarg, Ph.D., MCC, CSP, ESIA / Carrie Williams, MCC
CCEs: 1.5 Resource Development
Date: Wednesday, April 26, 2023
Time: 12:00 PM – 1:30 PM Pacific Time
This SIG is only for members who have achieved their MCC credential.
The Master Certified Coach (MCC) is the highest level of coach certification offered by the ICF. As of 2020, there were only 1,258 MCC-accredited coaches in the world. This group is for MCCs to meet and learn from each other. We will discuss challenges, coaching trends, and how to advocate for the development of the coaching professional practice worldwide.
Find out more »May 2023
Unleashing Your Potential: Discovering and Harnessing Your Inner Superpowers
Topic: Unleashing Your Potential: Discovering and Harnessing Your Inner Superpowers
Speakers: Andrea Bahamondes, MCC
CCEs: 1.0 Resource Development
Date: Monday, May 8, 2023
Time: 2:00 PM – 3:00 PM Pacific Time
Join ICFLA to celebrate “Explore Your Potential” for this interactive event to explore character strengths! We will explore the power of character strengths and how they can transform our lives. Each of us possesses unique character strengths that can help us overcome challenges, achieve our goals, and live a fulfilling life. By understanding and developing these strengths, we can unlock our full potential and become the best version of ourselves.
Find out more »Business Building SIG – May 2023
Topic: Business Building SIG
Speaker: Gretchen Hydo, MCC
CCEs: 1.5 Resource Development
Date: Tuesday, May 9, 2023
Time: 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM Pacific Time
In this interactive workshop, Master Coach, Gretchen Hydo, will teach the art of enrollment beginning with prepping yourself, to being fully present with your client. She will answer questions from the floor, and demo what a successful enrollment call sounds like. She will break down the process into manageable steps and will focus on helping coaches slow down to speed up. Many coaches try to connect, sell and close all in one 30-minute session. Hydo will help participants create a roadmap that breaks the process down, connect, invite, serve, propose, serve in a slowed down and relaxed way.
Find out more »Book Writing SIG – May 2023
Topic: Properly Train to be a Writer
Speaker: Kim O’Hara
CCEs: 1.5 Resource Development
Date: Wednesday, May 10, 2023
Time: 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM Pacific Time
This month’s SIG is an interactive workshop on writing. I will present some of my top tips on how to become a better writer, as well as the biggest pet peeves. You will have the inside scoop on why some books you read just don’t sit with you right, and others you remember for decades to come. Becoming an author is fundamentally about writing well, and few people spend the time necessary to practice a craft. You can’t just fly a plane for the first time without lessons. You could but you would probably crash! Same with books… while less perilous, the act of publishing a book written by an amateur with no writing training is the same set up for a crash and burn.
Find out more »Coaching Supervision Group SIG – May 2023
Topic: Coaching Supervision Group SIG
Hosts: Paul Sanbar, PCC, ESIA / Courtney Birch Webster, PCC, CPCC
CCEs: 1.0 Core Competencies / 0.5 Resource Development
Date: Wednesday, May 10, 2023
Time: 3:00 PM – 4:30 PM Pacific Time
Supervision is a non-judgmental partnership in which the coach brings his/her work to a supervisor to explore challenges, ethical dilemmas, emotional responses, and how the personal may intrude into the professional. The supervisor does not evaluate or judge but holds a reflective space for learning and connection for the group.
Find out more »Teleclass: Follow-Up Strategies That Will Get More Clients and Close More Sales
Topic: Follow-Up Strategies That Will Get More Clients and Close More Sales
Speaker: Wanda Allen
CCEs: 1.0 Resource Development
Date: Thursday, May 11, 2023
Time: 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM Pacific Time
If follow-up is a hard heavy "to do" then the Follow Up Sales Strategies Presentation is for you. You'll learn that follow-up is merely a matter of having effective habits and good systems in place. If you struggle getting your follow-up work done, it's not because you don't have time, you're not organized or you're not good at sales...it's because you haven't learned the right systems and skill set. Understanding this will help put you in the flow of ease of getting this all important work done on a daily basis.
Find out more »June 2023
Credentialing SIG – June 2023
Topic: Credentialing SIG
Host: Carly Anderson, MCC
CCEs: 1.0 Core Competencies / 0.5 Resource Development
Date: Thursday, June 1, 2023
Time: 2:00 PM – 3:30 PM Pacific Time
The June 2023 SIG will also feature Core Competency #3. Establishes and Maintains Agreements. Includes exploration of what it means to partner to define a client-determined outcome for each coaching session. Discussion will include ACC, PCC and MCC distinctions.
Find out more »New Member Town Hall – June 2023
Topic: New Member Town Hall
Facilitator: Patty Crabtree
Date: Wednesday, June 7, 2023
Time: 3:00 PM – 4:00 PM Pacific Time
ICFLA is a thriving global community for Coaches and the coach-curious that provides programming, development, and community that can help you to build and grow your coaching impact. Learn more about our membership benefits, connect with other coaches and have your questions answered about getting involved. This virtual class is for members new to ICFLA or those who are interested in joining our community.
Find out more »Executive Coaching SIG – June 2023
Topic: Coaching Tools - Assessments, Best Practices, Tips, Tricks & Tools
Host: Tom Henschel
CCEs: 0.75 Core Competencies / 0.75 Resource Development
Date: Friday, June 9, 2023
Time: 9:00 AM – 10:30 AM Pacific Time
A self-directed learning group exploring coaching situations involving a coach, a client, and an employer. Come join our diverse, welcoming community as we support each other to elevate our executive coaching skills and impact.
Our second annual Coaching Hackathon. Bring your favorite coaching tool. Maybe it's a favorite question. Maybe it's an entire course of study. Whatever you've got, come share it and hear everyone else's. It's a blast!
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