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 at 12:30pm Saskatchewan/1:30pm Manitoba
The Conflict Landscape: Introduces the spectrum of conflict— from early tension to entrenched disputes and builds coaches’ ability to recognize where a client sits within that spectrum. Foundational frameworks including the Drama Triangle and conflict style models (TKI) deepen awareness of how conflict develops and escalates.
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Session 2 – Conflict Patterns and Coaching Interventions
Thursday, October 1 at 12:30pm Saskatchewan/1:30pm Manitoba
Conflict Patterns and Coaching Interventions, focuses on recognizing and shifting conflict dynamics within the coaching conversation itself. Participants learn to identify patterns such as reactivity, triangulation, and develop coaching responses that expand client perspective and reduce escalation.
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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.
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Ask Better Questions, Get Better Results
Facilitated by: Laura Berman Fortgang, MCC
Wednesday, September 23 at 11:00am-12:00pm CST / 12:00-1:00pm CDT
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Most coaches ask questions to gather information or show active listening. But the right question can do much more – unlock breakthroughs, spark action, and align clients with their deepest values.
In this masterclass, renowned coach Laura Berman Fortgang reveals how to turn questioning into a powerful art form, blending insights from psychology, neuroscience, and behavioral change. You’ll learn how strategic inquiry can create profound shifts in thinking, feeling, and action.
Key Takeaways
- The Neuroscience of Questions: Discover how transformational questions rewire the brain, unlock creativity, and break limiting beliefs.
- The Question Hierarchy: Move from surface-level queries to deep, transformational questions that inspire action and alignment.
- Advanced Techniques: Master the Challenge Frame, Solution-Finding Method, Values Excavation, and Resistance Dissolution techniques.
- Practical Applications: Apply strategic inquiry in coaching, leadership, team building, business development, and personal relationships.
The Experience
Through live exercises and role-play, you’ll refine your questioning style, receive real-time feedback, and create a toolkit of powerful questions for coaching breakthroughs.
The Ripple Effect
Masterful questions create lasting change. Your clients will gain deeper insights, take aligned actions, and build confidence – while you’ll transform every interaction, from leadership conversations to personal relationships.
Why book this session?
With Laura’s decades of expertise and cutting-edge research, this session equips you with actionable strategies to elevate your coaching and communication. The right question at the right moment doesn’t just gather information – it changes lives.
1.0 Core Competency CCE credit
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
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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
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 CST
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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
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UBC Extended Learning
Coaching Neurodiversity at Work is a dynamic, justice-informed training program that offers a holistic foundation in neuro-affirmative coaching for professional contexts. 
This program blends practical skill-building with critical inquiry to support ethical, inclusive, and future-forward coaching with neurodivergent clients in the context of work.
This program begins September 8 and is approved with the International Coaching Federation for 40 Continuing Coach Education credits (CCEs).
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).