**Please note special registration instructions in your confirmation email**
This Event Awards 1.5 Core Competency CCEUs. Participants must attend live to be eligible for CCEUs.
Date: October 15, 2026
Time: 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm MST | 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm EST
Tickets: ICF Members: $28 CAD | ICF Premium Members: Free | Non-Members: $35 CAD
How do you bring your authentic self to coaching and still demonstrate the MCC qualities of being with the human you are coaching? "Everyone who develops mastery starts off in a beginner's mind. And those who continue to evolve masterfully stay in the beginner's mind the whole of their lives." Let’s discuss the fundamentals of coaching and how to use the ICF competencies as the launching point for mastery. Once you integrate your understanding, you then have the freedom to dance in your coaching conversations. Supporting your clients to explore transformational places. Observe a 20-minute coaching demonstration. Linking the coach’s questions to the MCC BARS and PCC Markers. Afterward, break out into groups to debrief the coaching demonstration with each other. Then, come back and pick Lyssa’s mind for her choice points. Make connections between the questions and the competencies.
Learning Objectives:
Explore what FULL Partnership means. Deepen your understanding of the competencies. See how the coaching container weaves the competencies: agreement setting, building trust, coaching presence, listening actively, evoking awareness, and facilitating growth. Observe an MCC Coach demonstrate the competencies through a real coaching conversation. Debrief on your insights.
About the Speakers
Lyssa deHart, LICSW, MCC, BCC, EMCC
Lyssa deHart, LICSW, MCC, BCC, EMCC, author of StoryJacking: Change Your Dialogue, Transform Your Life, the Reflective Coach, Light Up: The Science of Coaching with Metaphors, and Sticky Outcomes: at the Intersection of Coaching, Neuroscience, and Lasting Change. She is also the host of the Coaching Studio Podcast. Lyssa is a recovering Therapist, Confidence Coach, Certified Mentor Coach, Coaching SUPERVision Partner, ICF PCC Assessor, and coaching educator. Lyssa’s understanding of ICF Core Competencies and neuroscience instills confidence in her ability to guide professional coaches. She empowers them to enhance their client outcomes through deep listening, client-led approaches, and ultimately, by fostering a partnership that empowers their clients. In 2018, Lyssa began to develop the groundbreaking Power of Metaphor Program. This innovative program equips coaches to harness the metaphors their clients use, a crucial element in fostering stronger agreements, trust, and powerful embodied awareness. In 2022, she introduced the Updated Credentialing Exam PREP. This resource has significantly aided over 6,000 coaches in preparing for the updated ICF Exam, a testament to her profound impact on the coaching industry. In 2024, she introduced the ACE PREP for the ICF ACC Credentialing Exam. In all her work, Lyssa is committed to improving the coaching community by enhancing the quality and impact of the coach-client relationship.
**This is a co-hosted event with ICF San Francisco Bay Area Chapter. Please note special registration instructions in your confirmation email**
This Event Awards 1.0 Core Competency CCEU & 0.5 Resource Development CCEU. Participants must attend live to be eligible for CCEUs.
Date: October 21, 2026
Time: 1:00 pm - 2:30 pm MST | 3:00 pm - 4:30 pm EST
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.
Amy J. Warshawsky, MCC, NBC-HWC & Betsy Salkind, PCC, NBC-HWC
AMY J. WARSHAWSKY, MCC, NBC-HWC, is a leadership and mentor coach with expertise in coaching individuals, teams, and groups. She integrates somatic practices with coaching to deepen self-awareness and embodied leadership. A former faculty member of the ADAPT Health Coach Training Program, Amy has held roles in nonprofit and higher education settings. She holds an MS in Journalism from Northwestern University and a BA from Cornell University. BETSY SALKIND, PCC, NBC-HWC, is a health and mentor coach with expertise in team, group, and leadership coaching. She trained at the Mayo Clinic and was the Associate Director and Lead Mentor Coach for the ADAPT Health Coach Training Program. A professional standup comic and TV writer, with credits including The Tonight Show and Roseanne, she also holds an MS in Organization Studies from MIT Sloan School of Management.
Join ICF Board Members Nimir Raval and Lorella Julien for an informal coach meet-up.
This event is free, you’ll just cover your own food and drinks.
Space is limited, so please register using the link below to hold your spot. We truly appreciate your commitment once you sign up.
Meet other coaches, exchange ideas, and build connections!
This Event Awards 1.0 Core Competency and 0.5 Resource Development CCEUs. Participants must attend live to be eligible for CCEUs.
Date: November 12, 2026
Time: 1:30 pm - 3:00 pm MST | 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm EST
In this presentation, Neuroscientist Dr. Kelly Kent and Hayden Lee MCC will help coaches explore the neuroscience of triggers, how to manage them effectively, and how to implement this information into coaching sessions.
Coaches will learn the neuroscience behind emotional triggers and a practical coaching framework for introducing neuroscience concepts into coaching conversations. Participants will explore why emotional humility is the foundation of effective emotional management, understand the interconnected relationship between emotion and intellect, and discover why this integration is essential for creating lasting awareness and change in coaching.
3 Learning Objectives:
Kelly Kent, PhD.
Kelly Kent is a neuroscientist that connects her passion for the brain with all of her work, including as a school board member, corporate creativity consultant, business-owner, speaker, and her hardest job of them all, parent. Since she completed her Ph.D. in the molecular mechanisms of stroke recovery in 2011, Kelly has been taking her experience and expertise garnered at higher educational institutions and applying them to the real world around her. While on the one hand, Kelly was pursuing her post-graduate work in autism at the University of Southern California, she was also simultaneously teaching and mentoring graduate and undergraduate students. Kelly taught psychology undergraduate students at Moorpark College in Simi Valley and currently teaches neurobiology to psychotherapy graduate students at Antioch University in Culver City. The application of neuroscience to everyday life became her primary focus when Kelly co-founded adaptED Consultants. Through adaptED, Kelly has grown a company that uses neuroscience to provide tools to drive individual and organizational growth. This is accomplished by aligning corporate work cultures with how the brain functions optimally, training leaders to manage with the brain in mind and helping organizations determine their own “brain-based” best practices. Realizing the important role that coaches play in the organizational development and professional development world, Kelly approached Master Certified Coach, Hayden Lee to propose a neuroscience of coaching training program. With recognition of the value each respective field plays in enhancing human and organizational potential, Master Mind Institute was born.
Hayden Lee, MCC
Hayden Lee is a Master Certified Executive Leadership Coach, holding the highest credential possible in the professional coaching industry. He co-founded Master Mind Institute, a partnership with neuroscientists to merge brain science and professional coaching to more effectively serve leaders and organizations.
Seen as an industry expert and chosen as one of the “Top 20 Best Coaches in Los Angeles,” by Expertise.com, Hayden works with high-achieving executives, senior leaders, and their teams who are ready to make the changes needed for exponential growth in their personal and professional lives. He has coached leaders and teams from top companies like Google, X the Moonshot Factory, Meta, TikTok, Lyft, Cloud Imperium Games, FanDuel, Match.com, and many more.
He is an international Enneagram master coach and uses the Enneagram system to embolden executives and their teams to go from good to extraordinary. He is on the faculty at Integrative Enneagram Solutions and Leadership Education for Asian Pacific’s (LEAP). Hayden co-created the ICF-accredited course, Information for Transformation: The Neuroscience of Coaching. He is on the Advisory Board at Coach Training EDU, an ICF-accredited institution, where he co-created the Executive Life Coach Training Program.
As a highly sought-after speaker, trainer and facilitator, he has spoken at or led trainings at TEDx, UC Berkeley, National Association of Asian American Professionals, Nielsen, CAUSE, Association of Talent Development, the International Enneagram Conference in Cape Town, South Africa and many more.
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
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:
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.
Date: January 21, 2027
Tickets: ICF Members: $35 CAD | ICF Premium Members: Free | Non-Members: $49 CAD
In this interactive session, participants will revisit the essentials of Active Listening and explore how these foundations directly impact the coaching relationship. Drawing upon the presenter’s experience in coaching and education, this session will clarify the common barriers to effective listening and highlight why deep listening is so vital to coaching success.
This session will also include a practical look at how ICF Competency 6 shows up in real-world conversations, identifying the small shifts that turn regular hearing into truly transformational listening. Through quick breakouts and lighthearted exercises, coaches will have the opportunity to align with these markers and sharpen their existing skills in a high-energy environment.
This is an educational, reflective, and experiential session designed to support coaches in refreshing their core skills, regardless of their current level of experience.
3 Leaning Objectives:
About the Speaker
Shachi Patel, PCC
Shachi Patel, PCC, is the founder of SETU Coaching & Consulting. With SETU meaning "bridge" in Sanskrit, she proudly serves as a bridge between her clients' technical expertise and leadership excellence. Drawing on over three decades of leadership in technology and healthcare, she leverages her engineering, program, and people management background to help STEM professionals and women in tech thrive in complex environments. Her coaching, training, and specialized workshops focus on helping leaders navigate pivotal career changes and transitions through a creative, compassionate, and courageous approach.
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