Coaching with a Twist: Improv for Coaches To Evoke Awareness
Facilitated by Amy Warshawsky, MCC, NBC-HWC and Betsy Salkind, PCC, NBC-HWC
Wednesday, October 21 at 1:00-2:30pm CST / 2:00-3:30 CDT
Register here
As coaches, we are improvisers; we have structures and skills (competencies), but to apply those most effectively, we must be in the moment, listening, connecting, and co-creating.
In this 90-minute session, we use improv rules and structures from theatre and comedy, as well as those tailored just for coaches, to experiment, play, and learn. You’ll get comfortable with not pre-planning or getting ahead in your coaching conversations, and trust in the bottomless well of ideas and possibilities that we can all (coaches and clients) access.
LEARNING OBJECTIVES:
– Enter a calm, creative, resourceful state that supports presence and curiosity
– Use playfulness and non-judgment to invite clients to explore beyond current thinking
– Adjust in the moment to evoke awareness.
1.0 Core Competency + 0.5 Resource Development CCE credits
Conflict Resolution for Executive Coaches – hosted by ICF Oregon Chapter
Facilitated by Aoife Holden, MBA, PCC and Danny Lis, JD
These are three 90-minute sessions of interactive training for coaches who want to expand their capacity to support clients navigating conflict. This program bridges ICF core coaching competencies with practical frameworks drawn from facilitation and mediation, providing a structured, ICF-aligned approach to one of the most complex and frequently encountered challenges in executive coaching.
1.0 Core Competency + 0.5 Resource Development CCE credits for each session
Session 1 – The Conflict Landscape
Thursday, September 10 – COMPLETED
Session 2 – Conflict Patterns and Coaching Interventions
Thursday, October 1 – COMPLETED
Session 3 – Preparing Clients for Difficult Conversations
Thursday, November 12 at 1:30pm Saskatchewan/Manitoba
Preparing Clients for Difficult Conversations, equips coaches to partner with clients in preparing for high-stakes conversations, clarifying intention, anticipating triggers, considering other perspectives, and defining what success looks like beyond winning.
Read more and register here.
Coaching with a Twist: Improv for Coaches To Evoke Awareness
Facilitated by Amy Warshawsky, MCC, NBC-HWC and Betsy Salkind, PCC, NBC-HWC
Wednesday, October 21 at 1:00-2:30pm CST / 2:00-3:30 CDT
Register here
As coaches, we are improvisers; we have structures and skills (competencies), but to apply those most effectively, we must be in the moment, listening, connecting, and co-creating.
In this 90-minute session, we use improv rules and structures from theatre and comedy, as well as those tailored just for coaches, to experiment, play, and learn. You’ll get comfortable with not pre-planning or getting ahead in your coaching conversations, and trust in the bottomless well of ideas and possibilities that we can all (coaches and clients) access.
LEARNING OBJECTIVES:
– Enter a calm, creative, resourceful state that supports presence and curiosity
– Use playfulness and non-judgment to invite clients to explore beyond current thinking
– Adjust in the moment to evoke awareness.
1.0 Core Competency + 0.5 Resource Development CCE credits
Recognizing the Air We Breathe: Cultural Safety in Executive and Team Coaching – co-hosted with ICF Edmonton
Facilitated by Huong Bui, MA, PCC
Thursday, November 19 at 1:30pm Mountain Time
Read more and register here.
How might we consider “normal” and “good” shape how we see, listen, and support our coaching partners?
As coaches, like every other human being, we enter every relationship carrying our own histories, identities, assumptions, privileges, and ways of understanding the world. While coaching is often positioned as a neutral and empowering practice, it is not separate from the influence of culture, power, and social systems. The questions we ask, the perspectives we validate, and the changes we encourage are shaped by the worldviews we bring into the coaching relationship.
In this reflective and interactive workshop, participants will explore the concept of cultural safety and what it asks of us as coaches. Moving beyond cultural awareness and good intentions, this session invites coaches to consider how neutrality may not be neutral when we live and work in an unjust, prejudiced world.
Together, we will explore the assumptions and beliefs we carry into our coaching practice, examine how power dynamics may show up in both individual and team coaching relationships, and identify ways to create conditions where coaching partners from diverse backgrounds can participate fully, safely, and authentically.
Participants will:
- Develop a deeper understanding of cultural safety and distinguish it from cultural awareness and cultural sensitivity, including its relevance to coaching practice.
- Reflect on their own cultural assumptions, biases, and worldviews, and examine how these may influence their coaching practice.
- Identify concrete actions they take to create conditions for cultural safety.
1.5 Core Competency CCE credits
Their Map – Their Investment: Leveraging Language to Facilitate Client Growth
Presented by Dina Venezky, PhD, PCC-ACTC, BCC and Laura Reid, PCC, Certified MentorCoach®, Professional Certified ADHD Coach
Wednesday, December 9 at 2:30 – 4:00pm Saskatchewan / Manitoba
Read more and register here.
Words have the power to shape not only our perception of reality, but also how we engage with the world around us. In this 90-minute experiential workshop, attendees will explore how the vocabulary coaches and clients use can foster a spirit of curiosity and action. Ultimately, the goal with our clients is to co-create an accessible map they’re excited to use, not an overwhelming obstacle course they’re never able to start.
Participants will experiment with techniques to help clients strategically choose what to put on their map. They’ll learn to harness language as a tool for cultivating a more proactive, goal-oriented mindset, and for helping clients recognize blind spots and gaps in their planning. A central theme of this workshop is that facilitating client growth isn’t a checkbox confined to the final minutes — it runs through every part of a coaching conversation, drawing on the full range of ICF core competencies.
LEARNING OBJECTIVES
- Identify opportunities to facilitate growth throughout the entire arc of client conversations
- Implement techniques to help clients create a robust plan for post-session activation
- Transform action planning into an experience that drives motivation
1.5 Core Competency CCE credits
Co-operators
Investments. Insurance. Advice.
UBC Extended Learning
The UBC Equity, Inclusion and Intercultural Leadership for Coaches program brings together three flexible online courses in inclusion, belonging, intercultural practice and inclusive leadership.
Through reflective and applied learning, participants examine their positionality and strengthen their capacity to address bias, apply intersectional analysis, and coach across cultures and contexts.
This program begins September 15 and is approved with the International Coaching Federation for 70 Continuing Coach Education credits (CCEs).