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307: Student Practice Coaching - with feedback
Nov
7

307: Student Practice Coaching - with feedback

The ICF now requires candidate to complete at multiple choice exam to ensure that the candiidates understand the clear difference and markers of MCC quality coaching as well as clearly understanding each of the IC core competencies. You will receive a short practice exam one week prior to class to take. We will then review the answers and strategies to take the test.

Led by Robin Goodbary

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307: Student Practice Coaching - with feedback
Nov
8

307: Student Practice Coaching - with feedback

The ICF now requires candidate to complete at multiple choice exam to ensure that the candiidates understand the clear difference and markers of MCC quality coaching as well as clearly understanding each of the IC core competencies. You will receive a short practice exam one week prior to class to take. We will then review the answers and strategies to take the test.

Led by Robin Goodbary

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317: Courageous Coaching
Nov
12

317: Courageous Coaching

In this group session, we will coach two different participants with an eye towards exploring the courageous potential moves. What would an MCC do in this circumstance? What would deepen the experience and bring the client (and coach) to a new level of insight? We will use an ""additive model"" of round robin coaching.

Come prepared to practice coaching - with feedback!

Led by Leah Kedar

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111: Intro to Ethics in Coaching
Nov
13

111: Intro to Ethics in Coaching

Have you ever been stuck between a rock and a hard place? As coaches, we often find ourselves privy to some of the most difficult decisions in the lives of our clients. Add to that the need to keep straight our duties to the client, their employer who may be sponsoring the engagement, and society as a whole and it quickly adds up to a lot. Navigating our variety of obligations conscientiously, and with integrity is the hallmark of a professional coach. This session will introduce ACP students to the ethics of the coaching profession, as articulated in the ICF Code of Ethics. When we understand and embody our ethical duties as practitioners, we not only uphold the credibility of our profession, we make sure we have kept the client at the center of the work.

Led by Francisco Gonima

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308: Wrapping it up
Nov
14

308: Wrapping it up

Concluding a coaching session is as important as contracting and how you coach in the middle. Come prepared to coach and be coached. In this workshop we will talk about how you can solidly complete your coaching session with eyes toward moving the action forward so that you feel solid in your coaching and recordings for your submissions.

Come prepared to practice coaching - with feedback!

Led by Melanie Parish

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308: Wrapping it up
Nov
15

308: Wrapping it up

Concluding a coaching session is as important as contracting and how you coach in the middle. Come prepared to coach and be coached. In this workshop we will talk about how you can solidly complete your coaching session with eyes toward moving the action forward so that you feel solid in your coaching and recordings for your submissions.

Come prepared to practice coaching - with feedback!

Led by Melanie Parish

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318: Preparing for the MCC ICF Credentialing Exam
Nov
19

318: Preparing for the MCC ICF Credentialing Exam

The ICF now requires candidate to complete at multiple choice exam to ensure that the candiidates understand the clear difference and markers of MCC quality coaching as well as clearly understanding each of the IC core competencies. You will receive a short practice exam one week prior to class to take. We will then review the answers and strategies to take the test.

Led by Libby Robinson

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112: Successful Contracting with a Client
Nov
20

112: Successful Contracting with a Client

Contracting is a critical and often overlooked part of coaching success. It sets the foundation "It’s all in the setup ". This is a time where you set expectations, shared standards, and agree on the process and responsibilities of each party. The agreement - how you are going to work together, the approach, the ontological methodology, and your "unique coaching approach." Also contracting is not a one-shot deal but there are many "mini-contracting" opportunities throughout the relationship. How do we contract when things get uncomfortable or the client has a breakdown with the coaching itself or with the coach.

Led by Charles Feltman

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113: Successful Opening with a Client
Nov
25

113: Successful Opening with a Client

Previously in "Successful Contracting with a Client" we set a solid foundation for coaching engagement with contracting. In this session, we will further expand the foundation to the power of strong opening questions. Together, contracting and opening questions ensure the coach has a strong relationship with the client or coachee.

Led by Libby Robinson

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308: Wrapping it up
Dec
4

308: Wrapping it up

Concluding a coaching session is as important as contracting and how you coach in the middle. Come prepared to coach and be coached. In this workshop we will talk about how you can solidly complete your coaching session with eyes toward moving the action forward so that you feel solid in your coaching and recordings for your submissions.
Come prepared to practice coaching - with feedback!

Led by Melanie Parish

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114: Coaching Self-Awareness and Centering
Dec
4

114: Coaching Self-Awareness and Centering

Why is self-awareness and centering important in Coaching? In this class you will begin to learn and pracitce coach self-awareness tecniques. What are the practices that help you get ready to coach. Can we center with the client? We can use our own self-awareness as a tool in our coach. What knocks you "off-center". What to you do when you need to bring yourself back? Are you transparent with the client about when you are off-center? Center is not a "place" but a practice of revisiting and checking of where your attention is. Centering - which is found in many martial arts and yoga is also a powerful practice in ontological coaching. How can centering help your well-being as well as the wellbeing of our client.

Led by Carol Harris-Fike

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310: Student Practice Coaching - with feedback
Dec
12

310: Student Practice Coaching - with feedback

Skill drilling the parts...to make the whole...

We will have short mentor segments with a stop and start format. You pick the competency you want to focus on...Melanie will step in and ask questions during the process to help you drill the exact skill you want to master with feedback as you go. 5-7 minute coaching segments so lots of coaches and clients for this fast paced sesson.

Come prepared to practice coaching - with feedback!

Led by Robin Goodbary

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310: Student Practice Coaching - with feedback
Dec
13

310: Student Practice Coaching - with feedback

Skill drilling the parts...to make the whole...

We will have short mentor segments with a stop and start format. You pick the competency you want to focus on...Melanie will step in and ask questions during the process to help you drill the exact skill you want to master with feedback as you go. 5-7 minute coaching segments so lots of coaches and clients for this fast paced sesson.

Come prepared to practice coaching - with feedback!

Led by Robin Goodbary

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116: Going Beyond the Story Using Linguistics
Dec
18

116: Going Beyond the Story Using Linguistics

Language is not just descriptive it is also a form of action. In this class you will begin to enter the world of linguistics as a significant tool of ontological coaching. We will introduce the basic distinctions and "technology" of language or "speech acts". Sometimes we are not using language, language is using us! Also we will look how the clients "story" is full of various patterns and speech acts that can be used as an entrance to a deeper more transformative conversation. We will also look at how their story impacts their way of being and what options are open to them emotionally and somatically based on their story. How do we help the client to get beyodn the presentnig story - what is the story "underneath" the story? What is your story about your story? Stories aren't bad - they are just a shorthand of lived experience. Coaches also have "stories" about their client too.

Led by Francisco Gonima

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101 What is Ontology?
Jan
7

101 What is Ontology?

Ontology is the study of the "way of being" of an individual, team or organization. Ontology gives even very experienced coaches new "distinctions" in order to work with their clients in a deeply transformative way. In this first class we will introduce the 3 primary domains of ontology - linguistics, emotional realm and somatics as areas for discovery. We will also look at first and second order learning and the concept of the "observer" or witness state. We will also introduce the concept of "breakdown" or "break in transparency". Through understanding the distinctions that are often “invisible” to most coaches we can help people have dramatic insights, learn to awaken to new possibility all by using this “multi-lens” and multidisciplinary approach. The basic models and worldview that help you observe and lead differently. What is a "Breakdown" and how does it Affect Transformaiton, Midfulness and Collaboration? (Intro to Basic Ontological Distinctions - BEL and OAR and Breakdown...).

Led by Carol Harris-Fike

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117: Student Practice Coaching (with Feedback) Core Competency Focus: #3 Establishes and Maintains Agreement
Jan
8

117: Student Practice Coaching (with Feedback) Core Competency Focus: #3 Establishes and Maintains Agreement

This group mentor coaching class is facilitated to allow participants to actually begin the practice of ontological coaching - on each other. All participants will have the chance to coach and be coached, with both facilitator comments and peer feedback. Our focus will be on the ICF Core Competency 3: Establishes and Maintains Agreement.

Led by Libby Robinson

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311: Public Coaching 2
Jan
9

311: Public Coaching 2

In this session we will be joined by 2-3 ICF MCC Assessors. They will speak to you about their experiences assessing coaches at the MCC level for certification, offer insights on the do's and don'ts for the recording submissions and allow participants the opportunity to ask any questions they may have.

Led by Libby Robinson

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311: Public Coaching 2
Jan
10

311: Public Coaching 2

In this session we will be joined by 2-3 ICF MCC Assessors. They will speak to you about their experiences assessing coaches at the MCC level for certification, offer insights on the do's and don'ts for the recording submissions and allow participants the opportunity to ask any questions they may have.

Led by Libby Robinson

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Season 13 Q&A Drop-In Session #3
Jan
13

Season 13 Q&A Drop-In Session #3

During this hour Libby Robinson, MCC, will be looking at Core Competency #8 and how to implement the key skills required for this competency into your coaching sessions.

Definition: Partners with the client to transform learning and insight into action. Promotes client autonomy in the coaching process.

8.1 Works with the client to integrate new awareness, insight or learning into their worldview and behaviors
8.2 Partners with the client to design goals, actions and accountability measures that integrate and expand new learning
8.3 Acknowledges and supports client autonomy in the design of goals, actions and methods of accountability
8.4 Supports the client in identifying potential results or learning from identified action steps
8.5 Invites the client to consider how to move forward, including resources, support and potential barriers
8.6 Partners with the client to summarize learning and insight within or between sessions
8.7 Celebrates the client’s progress and successes
8.8 Partners with the client to close the session

Led by Libby Robinson

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102 Ontology and Linguistics Part 1 Assessments and Assertions
Jan
14

102 Ontology and Linguistics Part 1 Assessments and Assertions

Part 1 of 4 Part Series: Linguistics is the study of the nature, structure, and variation of language, including phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, sociolinguistics, and pragmatics. We will look at key distinctions in the "technology of language" - both yours as a coach and your clients. This class will focus on two main areas -- assessments and assertions and how you can start separating fact from story and the "phenomena" versus the "explanation of the phenomena". This one tool is absolutely essential to coaches not being "stuck" in the client's worldview. This is the first of 3 classes covering linguistics.

Led by Charles Feltman

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118: Powerful and Generative Questioning
Jan
15

118: Powerful and Generative Questioning

In this class we will engage in a conversation about questions. Questions are the primary tool we can use as coaches in order to better understand what is going on for our clients. Therefore, our ability to ask powerful and generative questions is critical to our success as ontological coaches. We will explore our questioning habits and practice expanding our questioning repertoire.

Led by Robin Postel

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312: The Coaching Session from the Client's Perspective
Jan
16

312: The Coaching Session from the Client's Perspective

Intervision is a supervision process among peers. Supervision aims to support coaches in ways that are restorative (e.g. self-confidence), formative (e.g. new learning and development) and normative (e.g. ethical clarity). Coaches typically leave supervision feeling resourced. This is an opportunity for you to bring forward issues that you are facing as a coach.

Come prepared to practice coaching - with feedback!

Led by Melanie Parish

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312: The Coaching Session from the Client's Perspective
Jan
17

312: The Coaching Session from the Client's Perspective

Intervision is a supervision process among peers. Supervision aims to support coaches in ways that are restorative (e.g. self-confidence), formative (e.g. new learning and development) and normative (e.g. ethical clarity). Coaches typically leave supervision feeling resourced. This is an opportunity for you to bring forward issues that you are facing as a coach.

Come prepared to practice coaching - with feedback!

Led by Melanie Parish

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103 Ontology and Linguistics Part 2: Requests, Offers, Promises
Jan
21

103 Ontology and Linguistics Part 2: Requests, Offers, Promises

Part 2 of 4 Part Series: In this session, we will look at the technology and distinctions of requests, offers and promises to understand where a client's breakdowns in language may be occurring if they are not getting the results they seek. Language also "lives in the body and has mood and emotion as a backdrop. We will practice listening for effective use of requests, offers and promises in our everyday life.

Led by Carol Roller

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312: The Coaching Session from the Client's Perspective
Jan
29

312: The Coaching Session from the Client's Perspective

Skill drilling the parts...to make the whole...We will have short mentor segments with a stop and start format. You pick the competency you want to focus on...Melanie will step in and ask questions during the process to help you drill the exact skill you want to master with feedback as you go. 5-7 minute coaching segments so lots of coaches and clients for this fast paced sesson.

Come prepared to practice coaching - with feedback!

Led by Melanie Parish

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120: Deepening Work with Moods and Emotions
Jan
29

120: Deepening Work with Moods and Emotions

In this class, we will explore the linguistic construction of emotions - the story, the impulse and the purpose. This provides coaches with an opportunity to provide clients a new way to appreciate their emotions, as well as explore a wider variety of emotional capacity. In this class we will explore the territory or emotions and how emotions fundamentally underlie all human interactions.

Led by Libby Robinson

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322: Check your readiness to apply
Feb
4

322: Check your readiness to apply

In this class, we will use small breakout groups to test each participant’s readiness to apply based on the ICF minimum standards. Using a fun and interactive approach the small groups will "Tap in" and "tap out" taking turns coaching. We will also use this time to complete our year and get ready for next season for those that will be continuing.

Led by Leah Kedar

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121: Focusing on the Agenda
Feb
5

121: Focusing on the Agenda

Good contracting is a very clear skill. Come prepared to coach and be coached. We will workshop when we are contracting and when we are coaching. This will help you develop a greater understanding of the skill of contracting. This will allow you to go into your coaching sessions with a very clear contract which will enable your coaching sessions to flow more clearly and your contracting with your client to be more clear. Good contracting leads to great contracting...

Led by Melanie Parish

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313: MCC Assessors attending
Feb
12

313: MCC Assessors attending

In this session we will be joined by 2-3 ICF MCC Assessors. They will speak to you about their experiences assessing coaches at the MCC level for certification, offer insights on the do's and don'ts for the recording submissions and allow participants the opportunity to ask any questions they may have.

Led by Libby Robinson

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122: Coaching Practicum and Supervision/Intervision
Feb
12

122: Coaching Practicum and Supervision/Intervision

Supervision is a process in which coaches are supported in reflection about their practice as a professional coach by a coaching supervisor. The ICF recommends that all coaches participate in supervision, European coaching associations require supervision to maintain certification. Intervision is a supervision process among peers. Supervision aims to support coaches in ways that are restorative (e.g. self-confidence), formative (e.g. new learning and development) and normative (e.g. ethical clarity). Coaches typically leave supervision feeling resourced. This is an opportunity for you to bring forward issues that you are facing as a coach.

Led by Carol Harris-Fike

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107 Learning to Learn
Feb
18

107 Learning to Learn

Ontological coaching uses the approach of observing what it means to be a human being. Epistemology, how we learn, is a component of what it means to be human. In what ways do we support or detract from our learning? How do we determine what territories we need to explore? Join us for a conversation on what learning has to do with coaching.

Led by Carol Roller

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123: Communicating Effectively - Directly and Effectively Challenging Your Client
Feb
19

123: Communicating Effectively - Directly and Effectively Challenging Your Client

An effective coach balances challenge and support. Effectively challenging our clients when we observe incongruencies in what they say or do is an opportunity for them to become aware of their breakdowns. The work for the coach is to approach the client with curiosity in offering feedback. The coach strives to offer input without attachment to whether their observations will resonate or not. Come and practice these coaching moves with other coaches to improve your ability to communicate directly.

Led by Leah Kedar

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315: Supervised Student Practice Coaching - Deepening Somatics
Feb
20

315: Supervised Student Practice Coaching - Deepening Somatics

In this group session, we will coach two different participants with an eye towards exploring the courageous potential moves. What would an MCC do in this circumstance? What would deepen the experience and bring the client (and coach) to a new level of insight? We will use an "additive model" of round robin coaching.
Come prepared to practice coaching - with feedback!

Led by Leah Kedar

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315: Supervised Student Practice Coaching - Deepening Somatics
Feb
21

315: Supervised Student Practice Coaching - Deepening Somatics

In this group session, we will coach two different participants with an eye towards exploring the courageous potential moves. What would an MCC do in this circumstance? What would deepen the experience and bring the client (and coach) to a new level of insight? We will use an ""additive model"" of round robin coaching.

Come prepared to practice coaching - with feedback!

Led by Libby Robinson

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324: Score a MCC level recording
Feb
25

324: Score a MCC level recording

Prior to this session, we will ask you to listen to a MCC level recording and score it based on the MCC minimum standards and markers. The purpose is to “attune your ears” to what is expected at a recording level.

We will also provide you with the link to an E-book done by an ICF Assessor about how to create strong MCC recordings.

Led by Leah Kedar

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108 Exploring Moods and Emotions in Coaching
Feb
25

108 Exploring Moods and Emotions in Coaching

Moods and emotions are one of the three main categories of human experience that ontological coaches use to help clients discover their breakdowns. In this course, students will look at the distinctions between emotions and moods. They also will take a look at four basic moods – resentment, resignation, acceptance and ambition. Understanding which mood clients spend their time in helps reveal what types of actions are available.

Led by Libby Robinson

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314: Group Intervision Process
Feb
26

314: Group Intervision Process

Intervision is a supervision process among peers. Supervision aims to support coaches in ways that are restorative (e.g. self-confidence), formative (e.g. new learning and development) and normative (e.g. ethical clarity). Coaches typically leave supervision feeling resourced. This is an opportunity for you to bring forward issues that you are facing as a coach.
Come prepared to practice coaching - with feedback!

Led by Leah Kedar

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124: Lightness and Gentle Irreverence
Feb
26

124: Lightness and Gentle Irreverence

Coaching presence that is light and gently irreverent can serve a client by helping them to see the patterns they live in may have become too small. Within the context of a trusting coaching relationship, lightness and humor gently shine a light on the breakdown – sometimes more effectively than through more direct means. Involves the core competencies of establishing trust and intimacy, direct communication and powerful questions

Led by Leah Kedar

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125: Deepening Questioning
Mar
5

125: Deepening Questioning

In this class we will practice sticking with a topic longer than we may be comfortable - noticing our own tendency to pivot away from one question to another - darting about in a conversation versus diving deeper, and exploring further - getting to the essence of what our clients are experiencing, accessing the wisdom that resides there.

Led by Pam Rechel

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316: Coaching Supervision: Bring a Case
Mar
6

316: Coaching Supervision: Bring a Case

The ICF now requires candidate to complete at multiple choice exam to ensure that the candiidates understand the clear difference and markers of MCC quality coaching as well as clearly understanding each of the IC core competencies. You will receive a short practice exam one week prior to class to take. We will then review the answers and strategies to take the test.

Led by Croft Edwards

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316: Coaching Supervision: Bring a Case
Mar
7

316: Coaching Supervision: Bring a Case

The ICF now requires candidate to complete at multiple choice exam to ensure that the candiidates understand the clear difference and markers of MCC quality coaching as well as clearly understanding each of the IC core competencies. You will receive a short practice exam one week prior to class to take. We will then review the answers and strategies to take the test.

Led by Croft Edwards

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110 Foundations of Ontological Learning - Wrapping it up
Mar
11

110 Foundations of Ontological Learning - Wrapping it up

In this session, Carol will support participants as they complete the study of the Foundation of Ontological Coaching. They will grow in understanding how the ontological coaching distinctions are applied within coaching to support clients in how they are being to accomplish what they desire. Carol will coach a volunteer participant and then process with the participants how the principles were applied. Carol will share the deep value she has witnessed with her coaching and mentoring clients in her almost 20 years of Ontological Coaching practice

Led by Carol Harris-Fike

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126: Dialing in on the quality of the question
Mar
12

126: Dialing in on the quality of the question

In this workshop come prepared to coach and be coached, We will workshop a variety of question types to expand how questions can be used more powerfully in your coaching. We will look at how your questions can amplify your client’s values or how you might be amplifying your own. What are the ethics of this?
Learn about open channel questions, curious questions, open ended questions, and how to avoid close ended questions and stacked questions.
So many questions….

Led by Melanie Parish

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127: Student Practice Coaching (with Feedback) Core Competency Focus: #8 Facilitates Client Growth
Mar
19

127: Student Practice Coaching (with Feedback) Core Competency Focus: #8 Facilitates Client Growth

This group mentor coaching class is facilitated to allow participants to actually begin the practice of ontological coaching - on each other. All participants will have the chance to coach and be coached, with both facilitator comments and peer feedback. Our focus will be on the ICF Core Competency 8: Facilitates Client Growth

Led by Charles Feltman

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317: Courageous Coaching
Apr
2

317: Courageous Coaching

In this group session, we will coach two different participants with an eye towards exploring the courageous potential moves. What would an MCC do in this circumstance? What would deepen the experience and bring the client (and coach) to a new level of insight? We will use an "additive model" of round robin coaching.
Come prepared to practice coaching - with feedback!

Led by Leah Kedar

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129: Stacked Questions
Apr
2

129: Stacked Questions

Asking powerful questions is an important coaching competency. Stacking questions is asking more than one question consecutively without leaving space for the client to answer. This class will focus on why we commonly do that (we all do it!), the impact on the client (often confusion) and how to stop.

Led by Pam Rechel

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318: Preparing for the MCC ICF Credentialing Exam
Apr
3

318: Preparing for the MCC ICF Credentialing Exam

Intervision is a supervision process among peers. Supervision aims to support coaches in ways that are restorative (e.g. self-confidence), formative (e.g. new learning and development) and normative (e.g. ethical clarity). Coaches typically leave supervision feeling resourced. This is an opportunity for you to bring forward issues that you are facing as a coach.

Come prepared to practice coaching - with feedback!

Led by Leah Kedar

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318: Preparing for the MCC ICF Credentialing Exam
Apr
4

318: Preparing for the MCC ICF Credentialing Exam

Intervision is a supervision process among peers. Supervision aims to support coaches in ways that are restorative (e.g. self-confidence), formative (e.g. new learning and development) and normative (e.g. ethical clarity). Coaches typically leave supervision feeling resourced. This is an opportunity for you to bring forward issues that you are facing as a coach.

Come prepared to practice coaching - with feedback!

Led by Libby Robinson

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130: Managing Progress and Accountability
Apr
9

130: Managing Progress and Accountability

While visions are often articulated in broad brush strokes, it can be very useful to bring specificity to the visions we create. Partnering with our clients to identify the texture and specifics of the outcomes they desire helps them build accountability markers along the way. Transforming learning and insight into action, and promoting client autonomy.

Led by Libby Robinson

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319: Public Coaching 3
Apr
11

319: Public Coaching 3

This group mentor coaching class is facilitated to allow participants to actually begin the practice of MCC level coaching - on each other. All participants will have the chance to coach and be coached, with both facilitator comments and peer feedback. 

Led by Hellen Yang

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318: Preparing for the MCC ICF Credentialing Exam
Apr
16

318: Preparing for the MCC ICF Credentialing Exam

The ICF now requires candidate to complete at multiple choice exam to ensure that the candiidates understand the clear difference and markers of MCC quality coaching as well as clearly understanding each of the IC core competencies. You will receive a short practice exam one week prior to class to take. We will then review the answers and strategies to take the test.

Led by Emer Doyle

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131: Student Practice Coaching (with Feedback) Core Competency Focus: #4 Cultivates Trust and Safety & #5: Maintains Presence
Apr
16

131: Student Practice Coaching (with Feedback) Core Competency Focus: #4 Cultivates Trust and Safety & #5: Maintains Presence

This group mentor coaching class is facilitated to allow participants to actually begin the practice of ontological coaching - on each other. All participants will have the chance to coach and be coached, with both facilitator comments and peer feedback. Our focus will be on the ICF Core Competency 4: Cultivates Trust and Safety and 5: Maintains Presence

Led by TBD

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319: Public Coaching 3
Apr
24

319: Public Coaching 3

This group mentor coaching class is facilitated to allow participants to actually begin the practice of MCC level coaching - on each other. All participants will have the chance to coach and be coached, with both facilitator comments and peer feedback.

Led by Hellen Yang

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133 Ethical Maturity Part One
Apr
30

133 Ethical Maturity Part One

On the surface, a code of ethics is fairly straightforward. In practice, it can be messier. In this 2 hour session, we will explore real ethical dilemmas participating coaches face in their practice, using Michael Carroll’s lens of ethical maturity. This is defined as “having the reflective, rational, emotional and intuitive capacity to decide whether actions are right and wrong or good and better, having the resilience and courage to implement those decisions, being accountable for ethical decisions made (publicly or privately), and being able to learn from and live with the experience(s)” (in Erik de Haan Supervision in Action 2012). An assignment will be given to all participants in order to prepare for Part Two on 24th June!

Led by Robin Postel

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320: Student Practice Coaching - with feedback
May
2

320: Student Practice Coaching - with feedback

Concluding a coaching session is as important as contracting and how you coach in the middle. Come prepared to coach and be coached. In this workshop we will talk about how you can solidly complete your coaching session with eyes toward moving the action forward so that you feel solid in your coaching and recordings for your submissions.
Come prepared to practice coaching - with feedback!

Led by Hellen Yang

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320: Student Practice Coaching - with feedback
May
8

320: Student Practice Coaching - with feedback

Concluding a coaching session is as important as contracting and how you coach in the middle. Come prepared to coach and be coached. In this workshop we will talk about how you can solidly complete your coaching session with eyes toward moving the action forward so that you feel solid in your coaching and recordings for your submissions.
Come prepared to practice coaching - with feedback!

Led by Hellen Yang

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135: Working with the Body (yours and theirs)
May
14

135: Working with the Body (yours and theirs)

Our somatic experience – what happens in our bodies – is as important to forming the observers we are as are our thoughts and emotions. In coaching, attending to “the body”, our client’s and our own, is a powerful avenue for discovery, learning and growth. Our clients’ thoughts and emotions are held in, shaped by and expressed through their bodies, which have their own wordless wisdom. Coaching to the client’s somatic experience can accelerate their ability to find liberating new perspectives and make meaningful changes in their lives. In this session we will explore the links between body, thought, and emotion, how to bring the client’s attention to their somatic experience in useful ways, how to support them in learning through the body, and how to use our own body experience effectively in our coaching

Led by Carol Harris-Fike

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136: Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Social Justice
May
21

136: Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Social Justice

The ICF expects coaches to have the capacity to have productive conversations about diversity, equity, inclusion, belonging and justice. Integral Coaches is committed to creating an inclusive culture for coaches and clients.

This course is the beginning of a series of conversations. We know it's a big and complex topic and that we each have to start where we are.

In this course we will begin by talking about where we each are in our journey to talk about race and our intentions for learning more. This will also help inform how we create our conversation roadmap for Integral.

Led by Leah Kedar & Pam Rechel

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321: Coaching Supervision: Bring a Case / Honing your Superpower 
May
22

321: Coaching Supervision: Bring a Case / Honing your Superpower 

In this class we will use small breakout groups to test each participants readiness to apply based on the ICF minimum standards. Using a fun and interactive approach the small groups will "Tap in" and "tap out" taking turns coaching. We will also use this tiime to complete our year and get ready for next season for those that will be continuing.

Led by Hellen Yang

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321: Coaching Supervision: Bring a Case / Honing your Superpower
May
23

321: Coaching Supervision: Bring a Case / Honing your Superpower

In this penultimate class we will use small breakout groups to test each participants readiness to apply based on the ICF minimum standards. Using a fun and interactive approach the small groups will "Tap in" and "tap out" taking turns coaching. We will also use this tiime to complete our year and get ready for next season for those that will be continuing.

Led by Leah Kedar

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322: Check your readiness to apply
May
28

322: Check your readiness to apply

In this class we will use small breakout groups to test each participants readiness to apply based on the ICF minimum standards. Using a fun and interactive approach the small groups will "Tap in" and "tap out" taking turns coaching. We will also use this tiime to complete our year and get ready for next season for those that will be continuing.

Led by Emer Doyle

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137: Finishing strong—completing the coaching session
May
28

137: Finishing strong—completing the coaching session

Concluding a coaching session is as important as contracting and how you coach in the middle. Come prepared to coach and be coached. In this workshop we will talk about how you can solidly complete your coaching session with eyes toward moving the action forward so that you feel solid in your coaching and recordings for your submissions.
Come prepared to practice coaching - with feedback!

Led by Melanie Parish

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138: Building a Coaching Business
Jun
4

138: Building a Coaching Business

Being a great coach is well, great. But it won't be much fun if you can't find clients - or clients can't find you. In this class we will look at what are some of the necessary building blocks of starting your coaching business, vision, personal brand, business development strategies and making compelling offers to your target audience.

Led by Libby Robinson

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139: Coaching to Trust
Jun
11

139: Coaching to Trust

In his endorsement of The Thin Book of Trust, Stephen M.R. Covey calls trust “…the foundation of everything we do and the key leadership competency of the new global economy.” Trust building is a competency that can be learned, developed and practiced. This ACP session will focus on how through coaching we can support our clients in becoming skillful at building, maintaining, and when necessary restoring trust at work.

Led by TBD

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323: Student Practice Coaching - with feedback
Jun
12

323: Student Practice Coaching - with feedback

Prior to this session we will ask you to listen to a MCC level recording and score it based on the MCC minimum standards and markers. The purpose is to “attune your ears” to what is expected at a recording level.

We will also provide you with the link to an E-book done by an ICF Assessor about how to create strong MCC recordings.

Led by Robin Goodbary

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323: Student Practice Coaching - with feedback
Jun
13

323: Student Practice Coaching - with feedback

Prior to this session we will ask you to listen to a MCC level recording and score it based on the MCC minimum standards and markers. The purpose is to “attune your ears” to what is expected at a recording level.

We will also provide you with the link to an E-book done by an ICF Assessor about how to create strong MCC recordings.

Led by Robin Goodbary

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140: Student Practice Coaching (with Feedback) Core Competency Focus: #6 Listens Actively & #7: Evokes Awareness
Jun
18

140: Student Practice Coaching (with Feedback) Core Competency Focus: #6 Listens Actively & #7: Evokes Awareness

This group mentor coaching class is facilitated to allow participants to actually begin the practice of ontological coaching - on each other. All participants will have the chance to coach and be coached, with both facilitator comments and peer feedback. Our focus will be on the ICF Core Competency 6: Listens Actively and 7: Evokes Awareness

Led by Carol Roller

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324: Score a MCC level recording
Jun
25

324: Score a MCC level recording

Prior to this session we will ask you to listen to a MCC level recording and score it based on the MCC minimum standards and markers. The purpose is to “attune your ears” to what is expected at a recording level. We will also provide you with the link to an E-book done by an ICF Assessor about how to create strong MCC recordings.

Led by Emer Doyle

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141: Putting it all together
Jun
25

141: Putting it all together

Skill drilling the parts...to make the whole...

We will have short mentor segments with a stop-and-start format. Come prepared to coach and be coached. The Facilitator will step in and ask questions during the process to help you drill the exact skill you want to master with feedback as you go. 5-7 minute coaching segments so lots of coaches and clients for this fast-paced session.

Led by Melanie Parish

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142: Public Coaching
Jul
2

142: Public Coaching

One of the best ways for new coaches to learn skillful coaching is to be coached by experienced ontological coaches and then debrief the coaching with them. In this fully experiential class an accomplished PCC or MCC coach, will demonstrate 1 or 2 brief coaching sessions with participants. Particpants should be prepared with at least one topic they are personally willing to be coached on in front of others.

Led by Carol Harris-Fike

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110 Foundations of Ontological Learning - Wrapping it up
Nov
6

110 Foundations of Ontological Learning - Wrapping it up

In this session, Carol will support participants as they complete the study of the Foundation of Ontological Coaching. They will grow in understanding how the ontological coaching distinctions are applied within coaching to support clients in how they are being to accomplish what they desire. Carol will coach a volunteer participant and then process with the participants how the principles were applied. Carol will share the deep value she has witnessed with her coaching and mentoring clients in her almost 20 years of Ontological Coaching practice

Led by Carol Harris-Fike

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306:Quality Questions
Nov
6

306:Quality Questions

In this workshop come prepared to coach and be coached, We will workshop a variety of question types to expand how questions can be used more powerfully in your coaching. We will look at how your questions can amplify your client’s values or how you might be amplifying your own. What are the ethics of this?

Learn about open channel questions, curious questions, open ended questions, and how to avoid close ended questions and stacked questions.

So many questions….

Come prepared to practice coaching - with feedback!

Led by Melanie Parish

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Season 13 Q&A Drop-In Session #2
Nov
4

Season 13 Q&A Drop-In Session #2

During this hour Libby Robinson, MCC, will be looking at Core Competency #3 and how to implement the key skills required for this competency into your coaching sessions.

Definition: Partners with the client and relevant stakeholders to create clear agreements about the coaching relationship, process, plans and goals. Establishes agreements for the overall coaching engagement as well as those for each coaching session.

3.1 Explains what coaching is and is not and describes the process to the client and relevant stakeholders
3.2 Reaches agreement about what is and is not appropriate in the relationship, what is and is not being offered, and the responsibilities of the client and relevant stakeholders
3.3 Reaches agreement about the guidelines and specific parameters of the coaching relationship such as logistics, fees, scheduling, duration, termination, confidentiality and inclusion of others
3.4 Partners with the client and relevant stakeholders to establish an overall coaching plan and goals
3.5 Partners with the client to determine client-coach compatibility
3.6 Partners with the client to identify or reconfirm what they want to accomplish in the session
3.7 Partners with the client to define what the client believes they need to address or resolve to achieve what they want to accomplish in the session
3.8 Partners with the client to define or reconfirm measures of success for what the client wants to accomplish in the coaching engagement or individual session
3.9 Partners with the client to manage the time and focus of the session
3.10 Continues coaching in the direction of the client’s desired outcome unless the client indicates otherwise
3.11 Partners with the client to end the coaching relationship in a way that honors the experience

Led by Libby Robinson

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306:Quality Questions
Oct
25

306:Quality Questions

In this group session, we will coach two different participants with an eye towards exploring the courageous potential moves. What would an MCC do in this circumstance? What would deepen the experience and bring the client (and coach) to a new level of insight? We will use an "additive model" of round robin coaching.
Come prepared to practice coaching - with feedback!

Led by Melanie Parish

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306:Quality Questions 
Oct
24

306:Quality Questions 

In this group session, we will coach two different participants with an eye towards exploring the courageous potential moves. What would an MCC do in this circumstance? What would deepen the experience and bring the client (and coach) to a new level of insight? We will use an "additive model" of round robin coaching.

Come prepared to practice coaching - with feedback!

Led by Melanie Parish

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108 Exploring Moods and Emotions in Coaching
Oct
23

108 Exploring Moods and Emotions in Coaching

Moods and emotions are one of the three main categories of human experience that ontological coaches use to help clients discover their breakdowns. In this course, students will look at the distinctions between emotions and moods. They also will take a look at four basic moods – resentment, resignation, acceptance and ambition. Understanding which mood clients spend their time in helps reveal what types of actions are available.

Led by Croft Edwards

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305: How to Select an MCC level client.
Oct
23

305: How to Select an MCC level client.

Having a high quality recording to give to the ICF is essential to your success. In this class we will discuss what the ICF will or will not accept as acceptable clients, what makes an acceptable client and what are some of the characteristics of a robust coaching relationship that will serve you well. Finally we will spend time looking at our own networks, to see if there are people we can "offer" to others within the Gaining MCC program.

Led by Hellen Yang

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107 Learning to Learn
Oct
16

107 Learning to Learn

Ontological coaching uses the approach of observing what it means to be a human being. Epistemology, how we learn, is a component of what it means to be human. In what ways do we support or detract from our learning? How do we determine what territories we need to explore? Join us for a conversation on what learning has to do with coaching.

Led by Carol Harris-Fike

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304: Public Coaching 1
Oct
11

304: Public Coaching 1

Intervision is a supervision process among peers. Supervision aims to support coaches in ways that are restorative (e.g. self-confidence), formative (e.g. new learning and development) and normative (e.g. ethical clarity). Coaches typically leave supervision feeling resourced. This is an opportunity for you to bring forward issues that you are facing as a coach.

Come prepared to practice coaching - with feedback!

Led by Hellen Yang

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303: Contracting/Not Contracting
Oct
9

303: Contracting/Not Contracting

Good contracting is a very clear skill. Come prepared to coach and be coached. We will workshop when we are contracting and when we are coaching. This will help you develop a greater understanding for the skill of contracting. This will allow you to go into your coaching sessions with a very clear contract which will enable your coaching sessions to flow more clearly and your contracting with your client to be more clear. Good contacting leads to great contracting...
Come prepared to practice coaching - with feedback!

Led by Melanie Parish

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304: Public Coaching 1
Oct
3

304: Public Coaching 1

Intervision is a supervision process among peers. Supervision aims to support coaches in ways that are restorative (e.g. self-confidence), formative (e.g. new learning and development) and normative (e.g. ethical clarity). Coaches typically leave supervision feeling resourced. This is an opportunity for you to bring forward issues that you are facing as a coach.

Come prepared to practice coaching - with feedback!

Led by Robin Goodbary

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303: Contracting/Not Contracting
Sep
27

303: Contracting/Not Contracting

Good contracting is a very clear skill. Come prepared to coach and be coached. We will workshop when we are contracting and when we are coaching. This will help you develop a greater understanding for the skill of contracting. This will allow you to go into your coaching sessions with a very clear contract which will enable your coaching sessions to flow more clearly and your contracting with your client to be more clear. Good contacting leads to great contracting...
Come prepared to practice coaching - with feedback!

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303: Contracting/Not Contracting 
Sep
26

303: Contracting/Not Contracting 

Good contracting is a very clear skill. Come prepared to coach and be coached. We will workshop when we are contracting and when we are coaching. This will help you develop a greater understanding for the skill of contracting. This will allow you to go into your coaching sessions with a very clear contract which will enable your coaching sessions to flow more clearly and your contracting with your client to be more clear. Good contacting leads to great contracting...

Come prepared to practice coaching - with feedback!

Led by Melanie Parish

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312: The Coaching Session from the Client's Perspective
Sep
24

312: The Coaching Session from the Client's Perspective

Skill drilling the parts...to make the whole...

We will have short mentor segments with a stop and start format. You pick the competency you want to focus on...Melanie will step in and ask questions during the process to help you drill the exact skill you want to master with feedback as you go. 5-7 minute coaching segments so lots of coaches and clients for this fast paced sesson.

Come prepared to practice coaching - with feedback!

Led by Melanie Parish

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103 Ontology and Linguistics Part 2: Requests, Offers, Promises
Sep
18

103 Ontology and Linguistics Part 2: Requests, Offers, Promises

Part 2 of 4 Part Series: In this session, we will look at the technology and distinctions of requests, offers and promises to understand where a client's breakdowns in language may be occurring if they are not getting the results they seek. Language also "lives in the body and has mood and emotion as a backdrop. We will practice listening for effective use of requests, offers and promises in our everyday life.

Led by Carol Harris-Fike and Dawn Hicks

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