Global Conversations: Inspiring individuals, Building communities, Impacting the world

Impact in the World
How can Coaching have a broader impact in the world? What impact is it having already? We are excited this year to bring you a dynamic group of international speakers who will inspire, inform, and challenge you to take your coaching further in having real-world impact. - Jeff Staggs, MCC (USA), Chair, Impact on the World Subcommittee

• Mark Mooney of the Strozzi Institute is presenting Embodied Practices for Global Change, with practical applications drawn from many fields, he will help you embody the question, "How do you become the change?"
• Virginia Kellogg, MCC, and Hide Enomoto, PCC, will exponentially expand how you think about clients in The World is My Client: Responding to the Call of the World While Satisfying the Hunger of Your Soul.
• Marita Fridjhon, MSW, PCC, and Faith Fuller, PCC, take us on an experiential journey in exploring diversity and systems coaching in My Land, Your Land, Our Land - Coaching Real Time Diversity Experiences. How to create a sustainable world, is a question that is everywhere in the press these days.
• Lloyd Raines, MCC, and Kate Ebner of Georgetown University directly take on how coaching can play a key role with their presentation, Coaching for Sustainability - Shifting from Scarcity to Sufficiency to Create a Sustainable World.
• From healing divides in Belfast, Ireland; Education in Japan; and a coaching non-profit for women, coaching is having an impact around the world, as you will learn from our international panel of Fuyuo Sato, PCC, Susan Straus, ACC, and Stephan Garber.
• To advance how you practice coaching, we are welcoming an inspiring guest speaker from outside the profession, Ariane Burgess. Her work on Regenerative Culture has had transformational impact on communities around the world and demonstrates the power of coaching skills applied within a broader context.

We are confident this lineup of great speakers will both stretch and inform how you can have an impact in the world through your coaching.

Full session descriptions and schedule, along with CCEU assignments for each session, will be posted as confirmed.

CCEU:  CC = core competency / PD = personal development / BD = business development & marketing / OT = other tools & skills

From Inspiration to Perspiration; Coaching Real Time Diversity Experiences
Marita Fridjhon, PCC (USA) - View bio.
Faith Fuller, PCC (USA) - View bio.
Thursday, December 3: 11 a.m.-12:30 p.m./1100-1230
CCEU:  1.0-CC/.25-PD/.25-OT
The subject of diversity and its complexities has been, and continues to be, one of mankind's toughest issues. We either make war to solve it or attempt to have skillful professional conversations about it. "We are one" is the high ground position, but what if we are not one? Even at the ICF Conference?

In this experiential workshop you will be invited and challenged to actually enter the work of discovering our own diversity-for in this lies our strength! Actively engage in real time group coaching as it arises in the session.

There is wisdom in exploring our fear, judgment and discomfort in just how diverse we are. Discover how to find delight in difference rather than create separation at best and destruction at worst.

Until we, as global coaching community, engage in this work, we will not be able to facilitate it in our communities and organizations! Stretch your limits of empathetic capacity while gaining skills.

Join the pioneers in Relationship Systems Work^TM; Marita Fridjhon, PCC, and Faith Fuller, PCC, to experience Lands Work^TM and this time leave having already started the work that you will continue in your own world."

The World is My Client: Responding to the Call of the World While Satisfying the Hunger of Your Soul
Virginia Kellogg, MCC (USA) - View bio.
Hide Enomoto, PCC (Japan) - View bio.
Thursday, December 3: 4-5:30 p.m./1600-1730
CCEU:  1.25-CC/.25-PD
Imagine: coaching principles are not confined to a coaching relationship; instead, they are a virus that spreads across the world, resulting in deep curiosity, appreciation and harmony between people. Imagine: coaching skills and principles as part of everyday life, infused into communities and the projects that emerge from those communities. The World is My Client invites you to step beyond the current coaching paradigm of the coach/client relationship and into new ways of considering coaching's place in the world. You will explore how coaching is uniquely suited to answer the needs of the world at this time.

You will create a bigger vision of how you can best use your coaching skills by redefining who your "client" actually is. Consider that "the world" - ¬the earth itself and all forms that exist upon it -  is your true client, not just the individuals you coach. This exploration requires a shift in which participants explore the question, "What aspect of the world is calling out to me and in what way?" Answering this question requires engaging in individual and collective Soul Work, in which you will look deeply at what you were born to do, as well as discovering some ideas and specific action steps to feed both the hunger of your own Soul AND the hunger of the World.

Embodied Practices for Global Change
Mark Mooney (USA) - View bio.
Thursday, December 3: 2-3:30 p.m./1400-1530
CCEU:  1.0-CC/.50-PD
The structures, ideas, and values that lead from a world based on emotional reactivity to a world of thought and scientific objectivity has created serious consequences. For all the useful discoveries in medicine and technology, we are more disconnected from nature, a "felt sense" of things and ourselves.  We often take actions that move contrary to Nature that supports all life.

We have entered the 21st century struggling to find ways to be accountable for global breakdowns. How do we as coaches assist leaders to not only make life on earth more sustainable but usher in a new cycle of generative contribution? How do we create life-affirming futures on a global scale?

This presentation will focus on practices that lead to sustainable change for coaches and clients; practices that integrate principles from psychology, linguistics, philosophy, martial arts, somatics and neuroscience research; cutting-edge practices for building a ‘self' that can live and embody one's ideals in a changing world. When we do that, our actions are a direct reflection of our values. We become the change. This will have practical applications for coaches and their clients to better align emerging values of interconnectedness and generativity with pragmatic actions in the world.

How can coaching contribute to the health, well-being, and sustainability of humanity and the planet's living systems?
Lloyd Raines, MCC (USA) - View bio.
Kate Ebner (USA) - View bio.
Saturday, December 5:  2-3:30 p.m./1400-1530
CCEU:  1.50-CC
Today, forward-thinking leaders understand their challenges and opportunities within a global context. How is coaching responding in kind? What is the emerging role for coaches as we partner with leaders in addressing issues of personal, organizational and global sustainability?

This session offers a creative and practical approach rooted in the conviction that our thoughts and conversations can change the world. Join Lloyd and Kate in a discussion about the impact of a scarcity mindset vs. sufficiency mindset on our coaching. We explore the behaviors of each mindset and their implications for future generations. We see how our worldview, based on fear or possibility, affects our "observer," the assumptions we make, the questions we ask, and the range of options we see-for ourselves and for the leader.

We share five key points as a foundation for the conversation and then frame a "past, present, future" exploration around sustainability-tapping into individual and collective possibilities. Through small and large group dialogue, we will hear and feel the call of coaching and the ways we can support wise stewardship of the world's vital resources. 

How can your coaching skills fit into the sustainability movement?
Ariane Burgess (USA) - View bio.
Leslie Kennedy (USA) - View bio.
Part 1:  Saturday, December 5: 9a.m.-10:30 a.m./0900-1030
CCEU:  .75-CC/.75-PD
Part 2:  Saturday, December 5: 11a.m.-12:30 p.m./1100-1230
CCEU:  .75-CC/.75-PD
Successful transition to sustainability and regeneration will take collaboration and cooperation amongst thousands of initiatives. There has been a slow awakening to the need for change.  What we need are leaders who integrate the efforts of many, recognize patterns of success, and understand a diversity of disciplines required for regeneration and innovation. We need leaders who understand how to coach others through change.

Are you one of those leaders?
Are you hungry for effective collaboration and a sense of community?
Are you ready for accelerated learning and lifestyle transition?
Do you get that we're at the leading edge of something big?
Are you tired of the talk and ready to take action?

In these sessions, we'll explore regeneration through an experiential process of community weaving. Through modeling, embodying, and taking action, we'll co-create a transition to a more resilient, sustainable and ultimately regenerative way of operating. We need to take leadership in designing new ways of living such that the natural systems regenerate and we can co-exist and thrive. This is an invitation for you to tap into your creativity and ingenuity, to wake up and to lead the way.

Experience what it is to be regenerative, by:

• Expanding perspectives through a journey in the regenerative culture lotus;
• Exploring collaboration and cooperation midst competing agendas;
• Creating community via speedy and deep connection;
• Appreciating nature's contribution to community;
• Recognizing the resources and capacities within the community; and
• Designing new configurations.

One World, Many Doors: How Your Unique Coaching Can Change the World Today
Three different coaches, three different models, three different countries. 
One common theme: Changing the world through coaching.
Fuyuo Sato, PCC (Japan) - View bio.
Stephen Garber (USA) - View bio.
Susan Strauss, ACC (USA) - View bio. 
Friday, December 4:  11 a.m.-12:30 p.m./1100-1230
CCEU:  1.50 CC 

• Women coaches volunteering their time and skills by providing One-to-One Life Coaching at no cost to women who would otherwise never have the opportunity - transforming individual lives and communities - in the USA
• A private school teacher coaching colleagues empowering them and working on their relationship skills in the classroom - and with each other - transforming the educational environment - in Japan
• An executive coach working with management teams to transform the culture of the businesses and break down century old barriers - transforming business performance - in Belfast, Northern Ireland

Each presenter brings a unique perspective and opportunities to consider how to create a profound impact in your own unique way. Through this interactive presentation you will learn how these three  coaches are having a significant impact in the world - for both clients and coaches, using different models-for profit, not-for-profit, and volunteer.

How do you want your coaching to have impact on your community?
The perspectives this international panel brings will open doors for how you can have greater impact in your coaching. They will challenge you to think beyond traditional coaching models. You will explore the implications these new perspectives have for the future of coaching and/or you individually. 

You will leave inspired and informed with practical steps and personal plans as to how you can expand your coaching practice and have greater impact in the world.