**Please note special registration instructions in your confirmation email**
Participants must attend live to be eligible for CCEUs.
Date: November 19, 2026
Time: 1:30 pm - 3:00 pm MST
Tickets: ICF Members: $20 CAD | ICF Premium Members: $0 CAD | Non-Members: $35 CAD
As a Master Mentor Coach and ICF Assessor at all three levels, Tijen has seen firsthand that one of the biggest challenges for coaches is the agenda-setting process. It's easy to get caught on the surface of a client's request and miss the de
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.
About the Speaker - Huong Bui, MA, PCC
Huong Bui, MA, PCC is the co-founder of KaleidoWork, a coaching and consulting company that helps purpose-driven leaders and teams build more effective and sustainable ways of working. As a coach, Huong's approach is grounded in curiosity, compassion, and the belief that meaningful growth begins with creating spaces where people feel safe to learn, reflect, and take actions. Huong recently completed a Master of Arts in Executive and Organizational Coaching from Royal Roads University.
Her master's research explored cultural safety in executive and team coaching practice through the lens of analytic autoethnography, drawing on her lived experience as an immigrant, coach, and organizational development practitioner. Through this work, she invites coaches to become more aware of the "air we breathe" by examining the assumptions, norms, and experiences that quietly shape our coaching practice.
