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 Matt Sorgenfrei

As the name suggests this class is facilitated to allow students to actually begin the practice of coaching - on each other. All students will have the chance to coach and be coached, with both facilitator comments and peer feedback. This is the place to be comfortable being a beginner or two jump in as a more experienced coach and hone your skills.

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.

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. Participants should be prepared with at least one topic they are personally willing to be coached on in front of others.

Declarations are a powerful speech act that can help a client keep their commitments alive - even in the face of doubt, or obstacles. An authentic declaration - powerfully made and received by the coach can be a touchstone and a "mantra" for a desired future.

This class is for participants who already have at least two current coaching assignments. Mentor coaching is a combination of listening to the coach describe their coaching challenges and an open forum for questions either about core competencies or ancillary topics such as building a coaching business. This is a required course for anyone seeking certification. Be prepared to discuss your coaching clients in a confidential way and clarify what skills you want to build in your own coaching.

As the name suggests this class is facilitated to allow students to actually begin the practice of coaching - on each other. All students will have the chance to coach and be coached, with both facilitator comments and peer feedback. This is the place to be comfortable being a beginner or two jump in as a more experienced coach and hone your skills.

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.

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

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. Participants should be prepared with at least one topic they are personally willing to be coached on in front of others.

This class is for participants who already have at least two current coaching assignments. Mentor coaching is a combination of listening to the coach describe their coaching challenges and an open forum for questions either about core competencies or ancillary topics such as building a coaching business. This is a required course for anyone seeking certification. Be prepared to discuss your coaching clients in a confidential way and clarify what skills you want to build in your own coaching.

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.

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.

In this ACP we will explore what we mean by a “breakdown”. Why it is relevant to ontological coaching and ways in which coaches can explore this domain with their clients in a way that empowers them to live life more fully.

As the name suggests this class is facilitated to allow students to actually begin the practice of coaching - on each other. All students will have the chance to coach and be coached, with both facilitator comments and peer feedback. This is the place to be comfortable being a beginner or two jump in as a more experienced coach and hone your skills.

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.

This class is for participants who already have at least two current coaching assignments. Mentor coaching is a combination of listening to the coach describe their coaching challenges and an open forum for questions either about core competencies or ancillary topics such as building a coaching business. This is a required course for anyone seeking certification. Be prepared to discusss your coaching clients in a confidential way and clarify what skills you want to build in your own 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. Participants should be prepared with at least one topic they are personally willing to be coached on in front of others.

As the name suggests this class is facilitated to allow students to actually begin the practice of coaching - on each other. All students will have the chance to coach and be coached, with both facilitator comments and peer feedback. This is the place to be comfortable being a beginner or two jump in as a more experienced coach and hone your skills.

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.

This is your opportunity to come and ask any questions you have. Everything you always wanted to know about ICF certification but were afraid to ask! In this open session, Libby and Lauren will answer all your questions about how to get everything you need prepared for your ICF Portfolio Process Certification. Demystification guaranteed! It's not as onerous as it seems! All will be revealed.

What are somatics? How is the physical body a domain of learning in coaching. In this class you will be given some of the basic distinctions in somatics, and begin to see how to enter this domain skillfully in your coaching.

As the name suggests this class is facilitated to allow students to actually begin the practice of coaching - on each other. All students will have the chance to coach and be coached, with both facilitator comments and peer feedback. This is the place to be comfortable being a beginner or two jump in as a more experienced coach and hone your skills.

Why is self-awareness and centering important in Coaching? In this class you will begin to learn and practice coach self-awareness techniques. 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.

This is your opportunity to come and ask any questions you have. Everything you always wanted to know about ICF certification but were afraid to ask! In this open session, Libby and Lauren will answer all your questions about how to get everything you need prepared for your ICF Portfolio Process Certification. Demystification guaranteed! It's not as onerous as it seems! All will be revealed.