ICF Annual International Conference

We are pleased to present a slate of offerings that will expand our knowledge and awareness of best global coaching practices; encourage ongoing learning between colleagues; challenge us to evolve through exploration of other fields and learning which can be directly applied to coaching.

Coaching Constellations with John Whittington. This introduction to constellations will appeal to coaches who are interested in experiencing a new way of working. John will talk about and then demonstrate system constellations and show their application in supervision and coaching.

Gaining Crucial Competitive Advantage in Global Business: Coaching Global Nomadic Leaders and Developing a Worldwide Practice with Katrina Burrus, MCC. Katrina will lead us in learning how to identify, develop and coach global and highly mobile leaders to act local while finding themselves in the midst of vastly changing global environment.

Coaching Supervision: What is It and Why Should I Bother? with Patricia Marum, PCC. Patricia raises the awareness of Coaching Supervision as a method for professional development applied to best practices. This will be a very interactive session where coaches will leave with an expanded awareness having experienced Coaching Supervision.

Muscle Memory Coaching: What We Can Learn from Theatre and Sports Coaches with Achim Nowak. Achim will show us how creating muscle memory can transform and accelerate a client's development by referencing the tools and approaches used by theatre and sports coaches.

Global Coaching-Leveraging Multiple Perspectives with Philippe Rosinski, MCC. Open yourself to different viewpoints and discover multiple coaching perspectives. Philippe will show us that diverse disciplines can be referenced as a tool to inspire and enrich our coaching practices.

Overcoming the Immunity to Change: Opening a New Pathway to Improvement with Robert Kegan.
Robert Kegan, a Harvard professor, has spent a lifetime studying adult development-and what we do to prevent it. He will show us that by uncovering a hidden mechanism, people can make the changes they most want to see in themselves.

Strategy 360: comprehensive Strategic thinking Skills with Randall Bell, MBA. Randall will introduce us to a comprehensive strategic thinking framework to develop effective action plan for ourselves as coaches and with our clients.

"We invite you to join us in October to experience these programs that support the relevance and importance of coaching practices across nations and cultures!" - Manon Dulude, PCC, and João Alberto Catalão, ACC, Co-chairs of The Practice of Coaching subcommittee

CCEU: CC = Core Competency / PD - Personal Development / BD - Business Building / OT = Other Tools & Skills

Coaching Constellations: Illuminate the Dynamics of Organizations and Teams
John Whittington (UK) - View bio
Thursday, October 28: 11:00 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. / 1100-1230
CCEU: 1.50 CC
Coaching Constellations are a practical yet profound way to illuminate the hidden dynamics within coaching, organizational and other relational systems, so they can be influenced and realigned, leading to fresh insights, clarity and enduring resolutions. The words 'systemic constellation' literally translated mean "a collection of objects which stand together to form a pattern." A Constellation creates a pattern or "living map" made up of participants who represent the elements of the business, team or other issue being explored. This initial mapping stage leads into a facilitated process through which complexity is simplified, hidden dynamics disentangled and fresh solutions revealed; each resolution is set in the wider context of the business or other system in which it exists. The image of resolution resources coaches, leaders and teams with insight, clarity and fresh information for lasting change.

Through the application of constellation processes coaches can:

Illuminate and clarify challenging relationship dynamics;
Gain fresh insights and information;
Bring renewed clarity and vitality to the flow of leadership and organizational work;
Build vitality in systems;
Learn more about the hidden dynamics which influence organizational health and application;
Understand where resistance to change or growth is coming from; and
Discover fresh resources for the coach and client relationship and process.

This introduction to constellations in coaching will provide a short experiential learning about the methodology.

The session will especially appeal to:

Coaches who are interested in working with their clients in the context of the wider system in which their client operates;
Coaches who would like to bring a challenging relationship-to-client or client issue for exploration; and
HR and OD coaches and consultants who are interested in experiencing this whole system way of looking at organizational health and the flow of leadership

Global Coaching - It Is All Connected!
Philippe Rosinski, MCC (Belgium) - View bio
Thursday, October 28: 2:00 - 4:00 p.m. / 1400-1600
CCEU: 1.00 CC / 1.00 OT
Global Coaching is an interdisciplinary and integrated approach that uses powerful methods to achieve meaningful and sustainable results. This session will challenge your thinking and provide a fresh perspective to enhance traditional approaches.

Global Coaching is a revolutionary approach that combines six perspectives: physical, managerial, psychological, political, cultural, and spiritual. Integrating these six perspectives allows coaches to improve their:

Energy, resilience and physical fitness;
Emotional intelligence and assertiveness;
Farsighted leadership and conflict management;
Ability to forge constructive and genuine relationships;
Skill to leverage diversity for enhanced creativity;
Capacity to serve others with impact;
Aptitude to live an authentic, purposeful and joyful life.

Participants will work with a complex coaching situation in small groups and within the larger group. This work will allow coaches to become aware of their preferred viewpoints and approaches to coaching. Then they will be invited to explore how combining multiple perspectives, particularly the cultural and spiritual, can enrich their coaching. Tools, such as the Cultural Orientation Framework assessment, will be introduced to further enhance understanding and the development of multiple viewpoints.

In conjunction with working on the coaching situation, participants will examine the role of the coach in today's society:

What is the purpose of coaching?
What disciplines can coaches consider as sources of learning? And what specifically can coaches learn from these disciplines?
What are some strategies coaches can use to address today's complex and multidimensional challenges (individual, organizational and societal)?
What responsibilities do coaches have beyond facilitating the coaching process?
What is our ambition for the coaching profession?

Come prepared to challenge your thinking, gain new perspectives and increase your effectiveness as a professional coach. You will emerge from this session with a greater appreciation for multiple perspectives and the realization that although we are different we are all connected.

Comprehensive Strategic Thinking
Randall Bell (USA) - View bio
Thursday, October 28: 4:30 p.m. - 6:00 p.m. / 1630-1800
CCEU: .50 CC / .25 PD / .25 BD
Just as a high-school football coach has a written game plan before every game, executives and managers need a strategic plan for their businesses. Indeed, clinical studies show that genuine achievement and peak performance occurs when we have a written game plan.

Who should write a plan? How do we write a plan effectively? How do we sort out all the voluminous data? What outline should we follow? High-level strategic thinking gains a commanding view in all directions, yet the key to a complete and practical game plan is simplicity.

This interactive session will offer participants an opportunity to explore a powerful mind-mapping system that helps leaders and professionals collect and organize their own thoughts. This model will introduce a comprehensive strategic plan and its 10 elements to effective plan writing. Participants will learn this strategic framework by designing their own plan, and acquire the necessary skill set to coach others within this model.

This Socratic framework results in a strategic plan that is right for each individual.

Along with this skill set, every attendee will take away strategic planning worksheets, along with wallet cards to summarize their game plan in a "bullet-point" format. All are practical tools to facilitate an intelligent strategic plan.

Gain Crucial Competitive Advantage in Global Business: Coaching Global Nomadic Leaders
Katrina Burrus, MCC (Switzerland) - View bio
Friday, October 29: 2:00 - 3:30 p.m. / 1400-1530
CCEU: 1.00 CC / .50 OT
Gain crucial competitive advantage in global business by specializing in coaching global nomadic leaders. Amid accelerating change and globalization, companies are more than ever faced with a difficult challenge of developing global and highly mobile leaders. Global Nomadic Leaders (GNL) were raised in multiple countries speaking multiple languages and moving multiple times. They are very comfortable working everywhere and living anywhere. If you ask them where they come from, they hesitate to answer any specific country. A leader may have been born in India, grew up in Saudi Arabia, went to university in the United States and now works in Europe. An example of a global nomadic leader is U.S. President Barack Obama. Companies are in dire need of leaders who possess an exceptional ability to accelerate business development in complex cultural environments. This leading-edge presentation will give you insight into how to coach expatriate versus global nomadic leaders. It will help you identify the type of change a leader is going through and what is the anchor that allows a leader to thrive and perform in a constantly changing environment. Learn how to develop some of these skills in your local leaders.

Participants will walk away with new insights and practical tools to apply to their coaching practice. This presentation will be fun and interactive with role-plays to apply your new insights to practical mini case studies.

Coaching Supervision: What is it and Why Should I bother?
Patricia Marum, PCC (USA) - View bio
Friday, October 29: 2:00 - 3:30 p.m. / 1400-1530
CCEU: 1.00 CC / .50 OT
The concept of supervising professional is rooted in the behavioral sciences. The concept of Coaching Supervision is an emerging, proven practice useful in promoting the continuous development of ethical practice and standards that reaches well beyond coach training. Supervision safeguards the coach and client. In fact, the primary work of Coaching Supervision has to do with the integrity of the profession in terms of the evolution of competency levels and in professional ethics and standards for the coach. The practice of Coaching Supervision has already taken strong root in the UK and Western Europe and can often be found as one of the hiring criteria for coaches, especially in organizations.

This session provides an opportunity to gain a broader understanding of what Coaching Supervision is and how it may meet any coach's needs across the full spectrum of the professional experience continuum. This session demonstrates Coaching Supervision's deliberate and conscious emphasis on reflective practice and how that practice assists the coach in continuing to evolve their own sense of the standards, ethics and competencies in the profession.

The session raises awareness of Coaching Supervision as an additional method for professional development as it applies to best practices, and will examine five good reasons to consider Coaching Supervision for every level of coach, from beginning to the very experienced, whether working in organizations or externally.

Participants will leave this session with an expanded awareness and first-hand experience with Coaching Supervision.

The session includes four segments:

Illustration;
The opportunity to experience a group Coaching Supervision exercise and debrief;
Engagement with coaches who have experienced supervision; and
The opportunity to discuss finding ways to experience more Coaching Supervision and how this bests support coaches in your region of the world.

Muscle Memory Coaching: What We Can Learn from Theatre and Sports Coaches
Achim Nowak (USA) - View bio
Friday, October 29: 4:00 - 6:00 p.m. / 1600-1800
CCEU: 1.00 CC / 1.00 OT
Sports and acting coaches got it right. They know that in assisting clients reach their peak performance, cognitive shifts will get them only so far-especially when a client wishes to access a more expansive self, the shift needs to happen in and through the body. Performers and athletes learn the power of muscle memory. Actors know emotional connection occurs through the ability to emotionally connect with oneself. Athletes know peak performance happens because the mind and body are able to consistently reach a personal benchmark, whether they are having a good day or a bad one.

In this session, you will discover how creating new muscle memory can instantly accelerate your client's development. Participants will be presented with the rationale and value of integrating skill sets from "old-school" coaching professions-theatre and sports-into executive coaching models. This session will:

Show how these techniques are especially effective with alpha-males and alpha-females.
Demonstrate how practices like rehearsal, drill, repetition, and energy release are, indeed, viable coaching frameworks for high performers.
Demonstrate that by creating new muscle memory, we enable transformative coaching at the deepest level.

The recipe for this session? Expect a small dose of theoretical background, a dash of personal reflection, but above all, a significant heaping of hands-on skill practice. You will be introduced to four techniques: Drill Power, Small Shifting, Physical Experimentation, and Enlarging the Self. You will taste these techniques in mini-practices during the program. You will experience the debrief and retention techniques used after each practice which cement the process of muscle memory learning. And to create a lasting memory, plan to participate in a short question-and-answer period where you have an opportunity to probe for best practices and insights on how muscle memory coaching may be of help to your clients.

Overcoming the Immunity to Change: Opening a New Pathway to Improvement
Robert Kegan (USA) - View bio
Saturday, October 30: 8:30 - 11:30 a.m. / 0830-1130
CCEU: 2.00 CC / 1.00 OT
This is an opportunity for you to "test drive" a new approach to coaching for sustainable personal change by applying it first to yourselves-- with the co-designer of the "vehicle" practically sitting alongside you for the ride! Welcome to this novel, fast-moving, interactive, and illuminating learning space created by Harvard psychologists Robert Kegan and Lisa Lahey. This session is designed to jumpstart the "Immunity to Change" (ITC) coaching journey that clients regularly describe as "eye-opening," and "giving me a whole new platform for change."

How will the session work? When you enter, you will receive a one-page ITC map, a mostly-blank template. Through recurring sequences of reflective exercises, pair-shares, volunteer examples, and whole-group conversations, you will gradually develop an X-ray of your own "immunity to change" as it relates to some important improvement-goal of your own.

What will I gain when it's over?

A personal-growth experience for yourself-get some new thoughts (and feelings) as to how you can better meet an adaptive challenge of your own as an ever-improving coach;
A first-hand experience of a new approach to coaching for sustainable personal change based on the idea that the mind, like the body, has an immune system which can "protect" us from the very changes we need to make;
A new understanding -for yourself, and your clients--of what to do about it that departs dramatically from the default, "New Year's resolutions" approach that characterizes most improvement processes-i.e., sincere intentions to change; smart strategies for reducing counter-productive behavior; pledges to follow them; and heroic efforts to power through;
Instead you will discover your own "hidden commitments" and "big assumptions" that currently make sustainable change impossible; and you will design your first experiment ideally suited to transforming your immune system.