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Impact in the World

A One World Dialogue: Coaches as Social Action Leaders
Saturday, Nov. 15 - 3:45 - 5:15 pm / 15:45 - 17:15
Susan Wright, MCC (Canada) - View Bio
Carol MacKinnon (Canada) - View Bio
CCEU: .75 personal development / .75 business development & marketing

Are you a coach longing to make a difference beyond your current practice? There’s a rapidly growing trend among coaches to become change leaders who make a contribution to global social issues and challenges – to give back to the world, share our talents, and provide us a heightened sense of purpose. Perhaps you’re already making a difference you can share. Or you’re interested in getting involved in this social action movement.

Using a World Café format, we will build on our current concepts and experience to identify possibilities for working together to expand our impact, at home and around the world. Recent theories, success stories, best practices and lessons learned will be shared. Participants will be supported and coached to make a difference where their passions lie.

The session will include principles and tools to translate inspiration into action. It’s an invitation to expand your perspective, to reframe the coaching paradigm to include coaches as social innovation leaders. Our world is in crisis. As coaches, we have an opportunity and a responsibility to act collectively to contribute our gifts. This is a call to coaches to collaborate as global change leaders. Join us, and explore the difference you can make.

Beyond Inspiration: Expand the Impact of Coaching Thorough Social Change
Facilitator: Martha Lasley – Nonviolent Communication (USA) View Bio
Panelists:
Jon Symes - Pachamama Alliance (UK) - View Bio
Randy Nathan - LEAP Program (USA) View Bio
Helen House - Laura Whitworth Prison Project (USA) View Bio
Leng Lim (Singapore/USA) - View Bio
Mary Murphy (Canada) - View Bio

Part 1 - Thursday, Nov. 13 - 2 - 3:30 pm / 14:00 - 15:30
CCEU: .45 personal development / 1.05 business developement & marketing
Part 2 - Thursday, Nov. 13 - 3:45 - 5:15 pm / 15:45 - 17:15
CCEU: .45 personal development / 1.05 business developement & marketing

Has coaching become a powerful tool to help the middle and upper class become even more individualistic and materialistic? Or is our profession expanding the frontier of social responsibility? Learn about the projects of six social change activists, get inspired and get involved. In this session you can build the movement to expand the global reach of coaching by contributing to evolving social change initiatives or find support for a project of your own. In this highly interactive session you’ll co-create new ways to integrate coaching with:

Social Change;
Community Organizing;
Shared Leadership;
Social Entrepreneurship; and
Outreach to Under-served Sectors.

Drained from going it alone? Want to partner more widely? Transform your identity as a coach, connect with your passion for change, and build your network to multiply the power of coaching. Get support for expanding your impact and brainstorm new ways to tackle community and global issues. Then you’ll weave a web of support, lay the groundwork, and plan the future of your favorite social change initiative.

In the first hour we’ll showcase six social change projects from around the world. The panelists will briefly describe their projects and then engage coaches in creating new ways to have greater impact in the world. Building on the energy of the panel discussion and whatever passions participants bring to the process, we’ll use Open Space Technology to collaboratively create areas of interest. In topical small groups, people will network, plan, and create projects for increasing the reach and impact of coaching.

When the large group reconvenes, each small group shares their social issue, project, and preliminary action plans. Cross-pollination of ideas keeps the whole room engaged and learning from each other’s creativity.

Coaching Social Entrepreneurs: Changing the World One Client at a Time
Saturday, Nov. 15 - 11 am - 12:30 pm / 11:00 - 12:30
C.J. Hayden, MCC, CPCC (USA) - View Bio
CCEU: .15 personal development / 1.20 business development & marketing / .15 other tools & skills

Social entrepreneurs are people who can't rest until their ideas have changed all of society. They found innovative non-profits, launch social sector businesses, work as professional activists, even start worldwide movements. These challenging clients range from wide-eyed visionaries to pragmatists with spreadsheets. To coach them toward success, you need to understand the world they live in and match the scale of their vision. In this session, you will learn about and practice using:

Five different models of social entrepreneurship, essential grounding for helping your clients create practical action plans;
A step-by-step process for assisting clients to launch new social ventures and stay on track during their development; and
How to empower your clients—and yourself as their coach—to hold a vision that's big enough to change the whole world.

Making a Living, Changing the World: Coaching Fee Structures
Friday, Nov. 14 - 11 am - 12:30 pm / 11:00 - 12:30
Beth Wallace (USA) - View Bio
CCEU: .45 personal development / 1.05 business development & marketing

How much should we charge to change the world? Discussions of coaching fees are always lively in coaching classes, on message boards, and in conference sessions. So many of us came into coaching because we saw immense potential in coaching tools to make the world a better place. And then we set up our practices, and wondered if we had to choose between making a good living while offering coaching mostly to people who already have access to money and power, or offering this world-changing tool to everyone but struggling to pay our bills. It’s possible to escape this dichotomy if we are willing to make new assumptions about the nature of money, energy, and success. In fact, creating social change may depend on that willingness.

In this experiential session, we’ll create a provocative conversation about the intersection of profit and contribution in setting coaching fees. Using the technique of serial testimony pioneered by Peggy McIntosh and the SEED Project, we’ll examine our own relationships to privilege and disadvantage in the sphere of money. We’ll look at received wisdom in the coaching field about clients, money, and fees, and consider questions such as, “What does it mean to make a living?” and “What does sustainability mean for coaches?” There will be lots of room for discussion, resonance, and disagreement. Expect to come away with a host of new perspectives on the topic of fees, and many new directions for exploration and thinking.

Nature and the Human Soul: Cultivating Wholeness and Community in a Fragmented World
Thursday, Nov. 13 - 11 am - 12:30 pm / 11:00 - 12:30
Bill Plotkin, Ph.D. (USA) - View Bio
CCEU: .75 personal development / .75 other tools & skills

Personal development and cultural vitality are inseparable. A society is just, sustainable, and vibrant only when—and because—it includes a sufficient proportion of authentic adults and elders. Inversely, individual maturity is most effectively fostered by mature societies. The interdependence of the individual and society—and of both with the natural world that sustains us—is a guiding principle of the "Great Work" of this century. Our essential gift to the future is to redesign all major cultural institutions—education, governments, economies, and religions—to be in partnership with Earth systems. Fundamental to this undertaking is to fashion contemporary forms for nature-aligned human development.

For 25 years, depth psychologist and wilderness guide Bill Plotkin has been asking how we can grow leaders and elders who have the maturity and wisdom to guide us through the planetary and cultural changes of our time. He believes that nature, including our own deeper nature—the human soul—has always provided and still provides the best template, or underlying code, for our maturation. His innovative model of human development, the Ecocentric Developmental Wheel, is a nature-based blueprint for individual growth that ultimately yields a strategy for cultural transformation, helping us navigate the formidable passage from our current egocentric, aggressively competitive, consumer society to an ecocentric, soul-based one that is sustainable, just, compassionate, and cooperative.

Plotkin will describe how we can once again take root in a childhood of innocence and wonder; sprout into an adolescence of creative fire and mystery-probing adventures; blossom into an authentic adulthood of cultural artistry and visionary leadership; and finally ripen into a seed-scattering elderhood of wisdom, grace, and the holistic tending of the more-than-human world. This ecocentric model of human development has vital and provocative implications for education, parenting, psychotherapy, politics, ecology, social justice, and religion, and illumines the interdependence of all these realms.

Unraveling Privilege: Maintaining Integrity with a Culturally Diverse Clientele Worldwide
Saturday, Nov. 15 - 2 - 3:30 pm / 14:00 - 15:30
Laurie Lippin (USA) - View Bio
CCEU: 1.12 core competencies / .38 personal development

Race remains the challenge of the 21st Century. A global concern requires that we attend to dominance factors, especially those that are normative and go unchallenged. Coaches who are unaware of their own racial/cultural social identity, and unaware of differing worldviews of culturally diverse clientele, risk perpetuating the systems that keep white dominance in place. Results include the underutilization of coaching and the under representation of coaches of color in the field. Here is an area of cultural sensitivity that affects every aspect of our communication. Our practices and our powerful questions always reveal who WE are.

Attend this provocative and participatory session to make white normativeness and white/European privilege visible and to further your own journey of unraveling a systemic racism that affects coaching as it affects all our relationships. Coaches have a responsibility to seek to understand how we, as well as our clients, have been socialized with racial biases to maintain whiteness, keeping separation and racism in place—and then do something about it. This session will provide illustrative experiential activity, a safe, non-judgmental space for dialogue and personal sharing, and is relevant for coaches of all races and cultures. We will commit to actions that dismantle unconscious privilege in our coaching craft and coaching organizations.